AEGIS Game Studios is an indie game development studio dedicated to crafting immersive, story-driven experiences. While our games take place in fictional worlds, they are shaped by the real world, offering players engaging adventures that explore themes of faith, redemption, and the human condition.
We are Christians. Our stories don’t shy away from the reality of a broken world. We write narratives that acknowledge sin, conflict, and even the presence of magic in their settings, but always with a clear distinction: there is only one true redeemer, and that is Christ. Some of our games depict worlds lost in darkness, highlighting the weight of human choices and their consequences. Others explore the cost of division, the struggle between peace and confrontation, and light versus darkness.
These games are made for everyone. You don’t have to share our beliefs to enjoy them, just as one can appreciate a story without aligning with every idea it presents. But for us, faith is not just an influence—it is the foundation of everything we create. We understand that our message may not resonate with everyone, and some may even be offended by the presence of Christian themes in our work. That’s a reality we accept. Our conviction remains the same: to create excellent games that reflect the love, power, and truth of Christ has for every single person.
Originally conceived by Josh ‘Five’ Day in 2019, AEGIS has been slowly growing into what it is today. Starting off as a small, safe online community that plays games together, to growing gently into a game development studio in October 2023.
Josh likes spending time on creating fun community events, new content focused around community and overall just hanging out in Discord playing games with everyone, too! He is invested in the wellbeing of everyone who belongs to AEGIS and loves getting to know everyone. He is always learning, looking for opportunities to better himself, make friends and generally continue to make the world a little brighter for people.
In August 2024 Roleplay Forge Games was formed as a sidewing of AEGIS Game Studios, with a focus on developing a high quality roleplaying platform for the RP community.
SAFEGUARDING & ONLINE SAFETY ACT
It should be noted due to the UK’s Online Safety Act (2023), we do NOT allow any minors on our platforms.
The Information Commissioner’s Office states that 93% of UK children play video games.
Online games, like any social (interactive) media, bring a certain element of risk due to the anonymity that these platforms bring. Whilst adults (especially those who have extensive experience and have grown up with social media and online games) are much more aware of the risks that come with interacting with strangers online, that is not always the case for parents and children who do not always understand the risks.
To ensure the continued safeguarding of children in video games, the Information Commissioner’s Office sets the standard for ensuring games conform with data protection law, as well as the Online Safety Act (OSA).
The information issued includes recommendations for games designers and providers to:
- Identify if players are under the age of 18 with a reasonable degree of certainty, and discourage false declarations of age. [AEGIS Kingdoms requires all users undergo an Highly Effective Age Assurance by providing a credit card which is checked by Stripe. No money is taken, but it verifies the user is not a minor, as per the UK Govs guidance.]
- Ensure that games are not detrimental to children’s health and well-being, by including checkpoints and age-appropriate prompts to encourage players to take breaks from extended play or help them to disengage from extended sessions without feeling pressurised to continue playing or becoming fearful of missing out. [AEGIS Kingdoms does not allow minors on our platform, however we also monitor the content that users engage with. Overly vulgar, gory, or instructional details towards self harm are actively moderated and perpetrators banned.]
- Turn off behavioural profiling for marketing by default. If a child chooses to opt into receiving ads, you should implement measures to control or monitor product placement, advertising, or sponsorship arrangements including within community servers, where children can access community servers from within the game. [It should be noted that AGS does NOT collect, buy or sell anyone’s data. We do not use ads. We do not behavioural profile anyone. There are no sponsored products at this time, nor can users access community servers from within games in general due to OSA compliance.]
- Discourage the use of “nudge techniques” to encourage children to make poor privacy decisions, including reviewing the marketing of social media competitions and partnerships to children and the encouraging of children to create social media accounts for fear of missing out on rewards. [AGS does NOT use nudge techniques or other design choices to encourage any of our users to make poor privacy decisions.]
As a qualified teacher with 8 years working in the UK FE SEND education sector, Josh has extensive experience in safeguarding children and vulnerable adults.
As such, it is his position that the best way to safeguard minors is to NOT have them on any AEGIS platform.
Should an age-verified user disclose they are underage, their accounts are immediately closed / deleted and access to removed from our platforms. Even if it was intended as a joke.
