Ironclad Games is a Canadian PC game

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. The company was founded in 2003 by former employees of Rockstar Vancouver. Ironclad is located in

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Titles

Ironclad released their first game, ''

Sins of a Solar Empire ''Sins of a Solar Empire'' is a 2008 science fiction real-time strategy video game developed by Ironclad Games and published by Stardock Entertainment for Microsoft Windows operating systems. It is a real-time strategy (RTS) game that incorporates ...

'' on February 4, 2008, a game that features a mix of components from

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and 4X strategy games. They released the ''Entrenchment'' expansion on February 11, 2009. The second expansion pack, ''Diplomacy'', was released on February 9, 2010: the ''Sins of a Solar Empire: Trinity'' combination package, which included the ''Entrenchment'' and ''Diplomacy'' expansions, was also released on the same day. On February 21, 2012, they announced '' Sins of a Dark Age'', a

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game set in a pre-war fantasy environment. A standalone expansion pack called ''Rebellion'', was also released for ''Sins of a Solar Empire'' on June 12, 2012. In 2022 Ironclad announced Sins of a Solar Empire 2, Beta Starting October 27, 2022

Iron engine

Ironclad's Iron Engine supports a number of advanced features including per-pixel specular lighting, dynamic fractal generation, post-process bloom filtering,

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, custom pixel and vertex shaders for all meshes and effects and an advanced particle system. v1.0 was used in ''

'' (2008). v2.0 was used in '' Sins of a Dark Age'' (2012). v3.0 is being used in Sins of a Solar Empire 2 (2022)

References

External links

Ironclad website
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