Ionage

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Ionage is a game about battling space platforms. It fuses elements of turret defence, traditional RTS and even chess to make a unique game perfect for that 5-10 minute bus or train ride to school or work but is also lots of fun for longer periods at home! The aim of the game is to destroy your enemy’s platform by extending your own and building weapons to attack from different angles. Unlike traditional RTS your ‘units’ are static turrets so there is a great deal of strategy in where you place your weapons to maximise the damage they deal. The focus is fast-paced action with simple mechanics that overlay to create deep and engaging strategy. For example there are only three weapons in the game that act in a classic rock-paper-scissor triangle. This leads to really exciting battles full of counter attacking tactics and allows the tide of battle to easily turn if the player lets their guard down.

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Ionage's creator, Tim Wicksteed appears on Guy Cocker's Videogames podcast along with Positech Games' Cliff Harris.

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Ionage's creator, Tim Wicksteed appeared on Guy Cocker's Videogames podcast on Tuesday 13/08/13 along with Positech Games' Cliff Harris. The podcast has just been released today.

You can listen to it here.

Or get it on iTunes here (it's episode 15, released 16-08-13).

Tim was joined by Cliff 'Cliffski' Harris of Positech Games - the genius behind such games as the Democracy series and Gratuitous Space Battles. If you're a PC gamer and like your simulation/strategy games then definitely worth checking out.

Of course, asking the questions was the ever present Guy Cocker who has now got a great YouTube channel which is worth checking out for game reviews, let's plays as well as hardware reviews of some pretty rare tech - he got his hands on an NVidia Shield a few weeks back!

They cover all sorts of interesting topics in the podcast:

  • What might be coming next for Ionage
  • A little about the process Tim went through making Ionage
  • Cliff announces the release date of his latest game Democracy 3 and talks about Red Shirt - a comedy sci-fi sim about social networking aboard a space station - made by Tiniest Shark which he is helping publish.
  • They run through all the latest news stories from Microsoft's latest bid to pull back some of its credibility with the XBox One to Mike Bithell's annoucement of his second game - Volume.
  • Finally they run through the games they've been playing as well as anything else interesting going on in their lives.

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