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[CraigFraser]

Welcome to Sins of a Dark Age! Congratulations to those of you who correctly guessed the URL acronym from our temporary teaser page, soadagame.com. My deepest apologies to those eagerly awaiting ‘Sins of a District Attorney’.  Perhaps next year.  Many of you also made an attempt to guess the mysterious creature hidden in the leather background (Take a second peak if you missed it).  The most popular guess by far was a dragon and the most unusual was probably a porcupine. It was hard to hold back the laughter as we followed the guesses. Have a look through this site and see if you can find him

I should really introduce myself. My non-game name is Craig Fraser.  I am the creative director for Sins of a Dark Age and an Ironclad co-owner.  I’m sure you’ll be seeing my face around here - at just about any hour - as we develop the game. You’ll also encounter a very similar face - my brother Blair, who is the producer for the game and also an owner. More of the Ironclad family will be popping in over time to introduce themselves and share their expertise.

Those of you who remember us from Sins of a Solar Empire will know how involved we like to be with the community.  We owe much of the success of the Sins series to the incredible amount of feedback our players shared with us throughout development…and years after!  I hope we can uphold our reputation and recreate the same passionate community here.  We ask for your help in building a respectful, fun, and supportive environment. Please speak up, create posts, participate in polls, and let us know what you really think.  A great community will inspire us to make an even greater game!

You may be wondering what state the game is in now. Well, I can't give away too much just yet, but I can tell you that every Wednesday at 3:00 our team takes a break from the grind to play our game. After 30 minutes of intense gaming my heart is racing and the team is huddled around a screen checking stats, watching replays, reliving the dramatic highlights of the game, laughing at our embarrassing loses, and re-evaluating our strategies. Regardless of the outcome, one thing is ALWAYS certain – we need to play again...immediately. Happy Sinning!

[SwissKnight]

As an expert hacker, I am proud to be here 9 minutes early.

[Bollard]

Hype!

[CoffiNail]

Well this game could be interesting... It has to compete with MWO and MWT though

[twistedcop]

hey Coffi good to see ya here and you are right about the competition but should make things interesting looking forward to playing this game as well

[thrawn2787]

Is this like a smaller, fantasy, action battlefield type of game? That's the impression I got. Even if I'm wrong still looks neat and good to see the "Sins" line continuing. Crossing my fingers for a beta invite

Oh and the publisher is publishing the new mechwarrior f2p game, so that's a plus in my book.

Edited by thrawn2787, 21 February 2012 - 10:48 AM.

[BlazeDator]

Hoping to get into beta i never heard of this games "sins" i just saw this in pc gamer and i thought this would be great because i love league of legends and i love savage 2 (commander- teambased RTS)

[RonLugge]

Hey there!

I'm on deck, and eagerly awaiting some of the awesomeness that SoaSE showed me you guys could do!

(Hopefully, I won't turn any of you into monkey's uncles again...)

[CraigFraser]

Hahaha Good to see you again RonLugge! This is an entirely new beast, but I think you'll have a lot of fun

[Centurion]

Well done, the game idea sounds much like one I and my comrades have been hoping would be developed. Excited to hear about your progress and hopefully a beta sometime in the future. I have plenty of clan mates who i know would love to test.

[boshimi336]

At work there about six or seven of us that were eagerly awaiting to see what was behind the countdown clock. Needless to say, we are exited. :-)

[SbEguy]

Sounds a lot like Savage and Savage 2, can't wait:)

[Derantol]

Excited to see this! I've also never stumbled upon a forum so soon after it was made - makes me feel like I got the jump on the mainstream... :3

[Hezron]

Pumped for this game! Great idea guys, Ironclad is amazing!

[CraigFraser]

I'm glad everyone is excited.
Derantol - over time you're going to see some major changes as we upgrade the site. It's a good think you got in when you did - your forum name is also your game name.

[Hezron]

No idea if you can answer this or not, but how competitive do you guys see or hope for this game to be? Like...esports wise i guess is what i'm trying to say.

[bangkibong]

when this game will release?

[Kno3]

I can't wait for this game to released! Seems so exciting!

[theodorean]

Looking forward to this one and me hopes we get to see a sneak peak of the actual in-game graphics

[Ascanius31]

Really excited to see this project come into focus! SOASE was the first RTS game I ever really enjoyed, and I'm looking forward to you guys putting your talent into something...medieval.   Besides, I've never gotten in on a Beta before, so maybe I'll get lucky this time!