Six Ages 2 Press Kit

Factsheet

Developer:
A Sharp, LLC
Based in Tacoma, WA, USA
a-sharp.com

Social:
Mastodon @asharp@mastodon.gamedev.place
Twitter @SixAges
Facebook ASharpLLC
Discord discord.gg/Jkb9z3M
Hashtag #SixAges

Platforms:
iOS/iPadOS
Windows, macOS (Steam, GOG)

Release Date:
iOS/iPadOS: August 2023
Windows, macOS: August 2023

Publisher:
A Sharp, LLC (iOS)
Kitfox Games (Windows, macOS)

Website:
sixages.com

Development Blog:
blog.sixages.com

Six Ages: Ride Like the Wind Press Kit:
sixages.com/press1.html

Description

Six Ages 2: Lights Going Out is a combination of interactive story and turn-based strategy, that immerses you in a land of myth.

Hundreds of small interactive stories build into an epic, where you guide a small clan, help them navigate a dying world, and survive until it ends.

Six Ages 2 is the sequel to Six Ages and a spiritual successor to the acclaimed King of Dragon Pass, which first used this approach to explore the magical world of Glorantha. All three games blend roleplaying, mythology, resource management, and decisions with long-term consequences. There are no other games like them.

Features

Short story elements, automatic saving, and built in note taking make it perfect for brief play sessions.
Procedural content and over 600 interactive scenes allow for dynamic and repeated playthroughs.
Over 650 000 words of text.
Multiple difficulty levels, and the option for Iron Willed players to limit restores.
Gorgeous hand-painted high-resolution artwork.
Cloud saves [Steam only].
Fully accessible to blind players via VoiceOver [iOS/iPadOS only].
Achievements [Steam and Game Center].

Compared to Six Ages: Ride Like the Wind

Essential game play is the same:
- Design your own clan, visit the gods, become respected and popular, and raid your neighbor’s cows.
- Your decisions all have weight. There are no wrong answers, just your choice of affecting your relationships with other clans, the gods, your ancestors, or your people.
- Characters with personalities execute your decisions and advise you. You’ll become attached to them as you follow their stories over multiple generations.
- Playable myths let you visit the Other Side.
Many of the same team members (including designers and writers David Dunham and Robin D. Laws; artists Jan Pospíšil, Simon Roy, Ellen Barkin, Michelle Lockamy; tester Liana Kerr).
The story takes place a couple centuries later.
Your clan is now Orlanthi (though distinct from the Orlanthi of KoDP), with some gods and mythology retained from the past.
Tribal politics is now a factor, and new missions become available.
You can choose game length.
Optionally continue a Ride Like the Wind game you won.

Series

Lights Going Out is envisioned as the second loosely linked game. It and Ride Like the Wind can be played in any order, letting you continue the story of your clan over hundreds of years.

Setting

Glorantha is a Bronze Age world, similar in many ways to our own. But it exists in a magical universe where the laws of physics are subordinate to the whims of the gods and spirits. To understand Glorantha, leave our mundane world and enter the world of myth. The Sun is a living god, not a nearby star. Countless gods exist, some even more powerful than the Sun, and all have the power to directly affect humanity.

Six Ages 2 introduces new players to Glorantha, but glorantha.com has a wealth of additional information, including a web comic.

History

King of Dragon Pass had its origins in a tabletop RPG game run by David Dunham. It explored some of the backstory of Glorantha, as described in Greg Stafford’s novel King of Sartar. This became the computer game King of Dragon Pass, which was originally released in 1999, and remastered in 2011 (for iOS and then other platforms).

In 2010, David had an idea for six short tabletop RPG campaigns. They would explore the same clan at different periods of history. In 2014, he realized that this could be the basis for a game that wasn’t a literal sequel to King of Dragon Pass, but could be an inspired reworking.

The first Six Ages game, Ride Like the Wind, was released in June 2018.

David and a talented team of freelancers began work on Six Ages 2 in September 2018.

Videos

Announcement Trailer YouTube

Release Trailer YouTube

Images

Windows/macOS Screen Shots

iPad Screen Shots

iPhone Screen Shots

All Images

Computer (ZIP, 73 MB)
iPad, iPhone (ZIP, 210 MB)

Key Art

Logo and Icon

ZIP file (1.6 MB)

Monetization Permission

A Sharp allows for the contents of Six Ages 2: Lights Going Out to be published through video broadcasting services for any commercial or non-commercial purposes. Monetization of videos created containing assets from Six Ages 2: Lights Going Out is legally and explicitly allowed by A Sharp. This permission can be found in writing at sixages.com/press.html.

Credits

Many of the team members also created Six Ages: Ride Like the Wind and King of Dragon Pass. They work remotely, around the world.