Why continue releasing updates and expansions instead of moving to a sequel? Five years, in PC gaming terms, is an eternity.
If you look at the five years of Rebellion and the ten years of the original Sins, we’ve constantly supported it through both free updates and decently priced DLC expansion that we release now and then. To maintain it, we’re always adding new stuff and improving things. But more than that-they wouldn’t stick around if the game was crap.
Well, there certainly aren’t many of them, so we’ve got some default engagement there. What is the key to engaging with an audience for half a decade, especially for a real-time 4X sci-fi strategy game? There’s always a vibrancy to the community and engagement. I get emails and private messages all the time telling me that the game is cool, that their friends still play it, and it would be nice to add this or that. I certainly didn’t foresee it, but we still sell very well, and we still get a lot of community engagements. I wanted to put it all into one package and say, “Look at this! Even after five years, we still have awesome new stuff coming, and it looks and runs better than it ever has before.” Is the Rebellion community still growing? One of the things I’ve always wanted to do was bring it up to speed with what a lot of computers are capable of now, and the community is always asking for different features and changes. How are you celebrating the five-year anniversary? Ironclad helped to mark the anniversary by releasing a “modernization update” for Rebellion, which improves the game’s graphical quality to support today’s powerful computer systems.īlair Fraser, producer, co-owner and director at Ironclad Games spoke with AListDaily about engaging with a player community to keep a game going for half a decade and more. Digital sales remain strong on Steam, and the game has a thriving community of players and modders. The space empire strategy title combined elements from turn-based games such as Civilization and Master of Orion with real-time action, making for faster pacing in an expansive 3D galaxy. That original game established a reputation for Ironclad games, which followed-up with Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion in 2012, growing the concept’s size and scope.ĭespite hitting its five-year anniversary recently, support for Rebellion continues and the most recent premium DLC expansion, Outlaw Sectors, launched last summer. When the first Sins of a Solar Empire game launched in 2008, it was regarded by many as a creative breakthrough in gameplay.
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