Six Ages 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
Windows 10, macOS (Steam, GOG)

Release Date:
iOS: 28 June 2018
Windows, macOS (Steam, GOG): 19 October 2019
Other Platforms: TBD

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

Website:
sixages.com

Development Blog:
blog.sixages.com

Description

Six Ages: Ride Like the Wind 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 hostile world, and find a path to long-term survival.

Six Ages is the spiritual successor to the acclaimed King of Dragon Pass, which first used this approach to explore the magical world of Glorantha. Both 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 400 interactive scenes allow for dynamic and repeated playthroughs.
Over 468 000 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 only].

Compared to King of Dragon Pass

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 (designers and writers David Dunham and Robin D. Laws, and composer Stan LePard from the original; Liana Kerr and Jan Pospíšil from version 2.0, and Zachary Kline who helped us with VoiceOver accessibility).
The story takes place a couple millenia earlier, and explores a different part of Glorantha.
Your clan are Riders, a culture distinct from the Orlanthi of KoDP, with their own gods and mythology.
You can deal with a large assortment of spirits as well as gods.
Combat is now interactive. Parley, skirmish or crush your enemies!
About 4 times the area to explore.
Game length is about the same as the short game in KoDP.

Series

Ride Like the Wind was envisioned as the first of six loosely linked games. They can be played in any order, letting you continue the story of your clan over thousands of years.

The next two games are tentatively titled Lights Going Out and The World Reborn. Lights Going Out is currently in development.

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 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.

David and a talented team of freelancers began work on Six Ages in August 2014.

Videos

Teaser for Windows/Mac YouTube

Release by Production Baby YouTube

Trailer YouTube

Teaser YouTube

Images

Windows/macOS Screen Shots

iPad Screen Shots

iPhone Screen Shots

Other Images

All Images

Desktop (ZIP, 109 MB)
iOS (ZIP, 240 MB)

Logo and Icon

ZIP file (1.9 MB)

Monetization Permission

A Sharp allows for the contents of Six Ages: Ride Like the Wind to be published through video broadcasting services for any commercial or non-commercial purposes. Monetization of videos created containing assets from Six Ages: Ride Like the Wind 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 King of Dragon Pass. They work remotely, around the world.