STARDOCK or IRONCLAD?

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if any of the devs can help answer this, I was just curious who made the game since, its listed as ironclad who developed it and stardock that published it. However it seems like stardock is handling on the PR stuff for this game and recently according to the GFW podcast brad wardell mentioned how he does a lot of the AI programming for all of stardock's games. So I was wondering who really made the game ? if it was ironclad how much contributions did stardock play into the development of the game. I mainly wanted to give credit to the guys that made this great game,

On a side note. I'll have to say I give kudos to stardock and their philosphy on game piracy. I'm a massive pirater when it comes to video games, I'll admit that, and I did pirate this game at first, but once I tried the game enjoyed it a lot and saw how great stardock is with the community, I did go out and pick up the collectors edition. I know the admins hear complaints day in day out from the community and can often be frustrating at times, and on behalf of the community I want to say keep up the great work because you guys are doing a good job, so get back to work focus on making a great game and the rest will follow.

-massive02

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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top
Ironclad are the developers of Sins, but the relationship with the publisher, Stardock, is such that each has a large say in what the other does. Thus, Stardock has input on the development of the game, and Ironclad has input on its marketing.

My understanding is that we will continue to see this kind of relationship between Gas Powered Games and Stardock.

-HM
Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top
Its worth pointing out that Stardock is both a game developer (where brad does his own AI) and a publisher. In the publishing side of things, they cooperate much more closely with developers than most groups do, so both sides tend to have an influence in the others decisions.
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