Age of Darkness: Final Stand News

Hello Protectors of the Light!

With Age of Darkness: Final Stand launching into early access on Steam this week, we know you are eager to learn more details about the release.

We're happy to share with you the times at which the game will be released across the world!



US West (PDT) - 9am
US East (ET) - 12pm
South America (BRT) - 1pm
Europe (CEST) - 6pm
China (CST) - 12am, 8th Oct
Australia (EAST) - 3am, 8th Oct

If you have any questions about the game, we have a handy FAQ we’ve posted on the Steam forums that you can view here, which we'll continue to update. If your question hasn’t been answered there, we’ll be doing our best to keep up with questions here and on the forums.

You can also chat with our team and ask them questions on our official Discord server here. Don’t forget to follow us elsewhere online, to keep up to date with all the latest Age Of Darkness: Final Stand updates:

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Hey everyone, we wanted to say thank you for being so understanding of the delay of the start of early access to October 7th, which we announced last week.

To show our appreciation for your support, we’ve started a Twitch channel for Age Of Darkness: Final Stand and did our first stream of the game last week! Check out the VoD of the stream below:

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We had such a fun time with you all on our last stream, we’ve decided we’re going to be doing another one tomorrow! It will go live at 9am Thursday AEST, which is 1am for CEST, Wednesday at 7pm for EDT and 4pm for PDT.



The stream this week will feature our art director and one of our game designers, playing through till the second Death Night and answering your questions. You can follow the Twitch channel here, to get notified when we go live.

You can also chat with our team and ask them questions on our official Discord server here. And follow us elsewhere online for more updates about Age Of Darkness: Final Stand, in the lead up to its early access release on October 7th.

AoD Discord - Join our official Discord server AoD Website - Official Website & Blog Twitter - Follow us at AOD_FinalStand Facebook - Like Our Facebook Page Reddit - Join the r/Age of Darkness: Final Stand community
YouTube - Subscribe To Our YouTube Channel Twitch - Follow Us On Twitch

We hope you'll be able to join us for the stream tomorrow and check out the game in action!

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Hey all, we’re excited to share that we have partnered with the world renowned game publisher Team 17 to publish Age of Darkness: Final Stand!

Since AoD is our first major PC game that we’ve developed, we want to ensure we put ourselves and the game in the best position for success through Early Access and beyond. Part of this was exploring partnerships with publishers that believe in our vision for the game and share our values as a studio, along with the ability to support publishing and marketing Age of Darkness: Final Stand far beyond what our current capabilities are.

We have found that awesome partner in Team 17!

The reaction to Age Of Darkness: Final Stand from our community so far has been amazing and we thank you. This support has truly inspired us even more to continue making the best game possible. Our partnership with Team 17, means we have the long term support to do that and add many of the modes and features you’ve already been requesting to the game.

In regards to the early access release, we have jointly decided to delay it until October (a specific date will be coming real soon). As part of this important partnership, we need to transition a few things to our new partner which will take a little bit of time to finalise, yes the business stuff!!!

We don’t want to impact the overall experience for our community by launching this in the middle of this transition, hence the delay.

We know some of you will be disappointed by this news considering we are so close to the original release date we planned but hang in there, we know we can accomplish what we need in the coming weeks.

On the plus side, this partnership provides PlaySide with the ability to realise the long-term vision we have for Age of Darkness: Final Stand. Which would be to to load up the features that hardcore RTS fans love, all with our own little spin on things to make this title truly unique and fun to play.

The whole team at PlaySide is so excited for you to get your hands on the game, and build it into the best experience possible through our partnership with Team 17 and your crucial feedback!

PlaySide Team

Test your resolve and fight for the last embers of light, when Age of Darkness: Final Stand releases into early access on PC through Steam, on September 15th.

Prepare for the swarms of Nightmares you’ll be facing in two weeks time, by watching our new gameplay trailer we’ve just released below.

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We can’t wait to see how you survive against the waves of horrors and master the challenging experience our team at PlaySide Studios have created together. Age Of Darkness: Final Stand has been a huge labour of love from us and we’re excited to keep building upon and improving it with your help, throughout early access.

Join our official Discord server and chat with members of the dev team to help shape the development of the game throughout early access: AoD Discord Server.

Don’t forget to follow us elsewhere online, to keep up to date with all the latest Age Of Darkness: Final Stand updates:

AoD Website - Official Website & Blog Twitter - Follow us at AOD_FinalStand Facebook - Like Our Facebook Page Reddit - r/Age of Darkness: Final Stand YouTube - Subscribe To Our YouTube Channel

And of course remember to wishlist the game to support us in the lead up to release!

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Welcome all our new followers and thank you for checking out, wishlisting and supporting Age Of Darkness: Final Stand!

We're excited to be able to be able to finally share and talk about the game with you. Not only because of how much we think RTS game fans will enjoy the unique challenge we've created, but it is also our first original PC title. So we greatly appreciate you joining us on this journey!

At PlaySide, we are passionate about working hand in hand with our players to help shape the evolution of Age of Darkness: Final Stand, both during Early Access and into the future. So we'd love for you to share your thoughts with us on our official Discord Server, through your preferred social platform, or of course on the Steam forums too.

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If you're hungry for more info on Age Of Darkness, we're sharing new insights and content of the game regularly on our Discord, across our socials and our official website.

We'll be sharing insights on our blog there about the development of AoD, such as the article we've already published, that explores how we developed the world of the game through concept art. We've included the content of the article below for you to check out, so we'll hand it over now to PlaySide's Art Director Ryan.

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Defining The World Of Age Of Darkness

We are excited to share with you some early insights into the development of the art for Age of Darkness: Final Stand. This is an exciting topic for our team as a lot of love was poured into developing the visuals into what you see today.

Before any real work on the project could begin, it was important for us to have some idea of what we wanted the game to look like. We developed a brief together defining what visuals we were aiming to achieve in our early concepts.

[h3]"At the end of the world, the ground is damp with the stench of blood and rain. Flowers, Wildlife, all that was once living is now dead. Open fields of once green vibrant grass are now cold wet swampland. Even IF the darkness is defeated... it will take eon's before this land returns to it's past days of glory."[/h3]

Of course, words are never enough and leave plenty of room for misinterpretation within the team. We spent a lot of time at this point also looking at references to pull from. Combining elements that we liked as well as our own ideas being inspired by the initial brief.



This is one of our first developed concepts for the game, already knowing a lot of what we wanted to achieve with the game play we kept the focus around how visuals would look from that perspective.



After developing a few images giving us a larger vision overview of the games visuals, we honed in on some more specific concepts. In today's post we'll be showing you those early exploration pieces for our Enemies and Buildings.





The nightmares of Age of Darkness: Final Stand have a consistent theme with our darkness as it's source. In each enemy there is a core where the darkness emanates, this could also be seen as there soul. Showcasing this across each enemy design is what's important in unifying each design. Below we have a few examples of our early explorations for different enemy units.





Buildings are the key component of every RTS, so ensure they looked appealing and on theme with our world is crucial. Taking the idea that our human faction has minimal resources to work with after the darkness tore through the land is reflected in our designs. With initial building tiers being built from large logs and thatch, as if they were built in a hurry, slowly working there way up to more fortified structures as better resources come available.







We finally managed to land on some of the core features we wanted from the design of our enemies and world, and its been long road from where we started to where we are now. Hope you enjoyed this short insight into our early concept exploration for Age of Darkness.

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Thank you again for wishlisting and following Age Of Darkness: Final Stand on Steam! We can't wait to share more news with you soon about the release date and our plans for development during Early Access.

[h3]Until next time, prepare yourselves for the battle to come...[/h3]

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