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.
OUR VISION
Here at AEGIS Game Studios, we LOVE telling stories, and we love our community. In fact everything we do revolves around these two things: story telling, and community.
So our ‘vision’ as it were, is to do just that:
- To inspire and encourage you with stories that celebrate good overcoming evil.
- To ignite the imagination through the stories we tell.
- To provide and support an awesome community of gamers from all walks of life who have a safe space, to be met with love and support in a trusted environment.
We know what its like. Life can be tough, it can be hard to make friends… So we just want to make some awesome spaces for you to hang out in, meet some really awesome people, and just have a place to call home.
TEAMS & OPERATIONS
AEGIS Game Studios has a number of operations which you can read about below.
DEVELOPMENT: Creating interactive games for millions of gamers to enjoy.
COMMUNITY: A mixture of community management, and a group of amazing Game Masters that spend time on our platforms (in-game, Discord and forums) helping out players, running quests, events, and just generally checking in to see how people are.
MEDIA: The development and administration of marketing materials for products and engagement on social media.
SUPPORT: Providing customer service to our players, as well as internal support to keep the studio running.
MODERATION: Moderation of the online community and their platforms (in games, forums and Discord). Specifically to handle the serving of punishments and monitoring to ensure safety of the entire community. Every Mod has a multi-stage health bar and boss music playing.
SAFEGUARDING
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. 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.
- 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.
- 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 data. It does not use ads. It does not behavioural profile. There are no sponsored products at this time, nor can users access community servers from within games.]
- 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 children to make poor privacy decisions.]
As a qualified teacher with 7 years working in the UK FE education sector (majority of time spent in SEN departments), Josh has extensive experience in safeguarding children and vulnerable adults. He knows all too well that the current level of industry practice regarding safeguarding in video games is meeting minimal requirements in comparison to education.
Social media is only now just beginning to catch up by implementing parental controls for users under the age of 18. It is the vision for AEGIS Game Studios to be an industry leader in providing appropriate tools and control for parents to safeguard their children when engaging with online games and their respective communities.
As such, features and tools are actively being explored not only to fulfil the recommendations of the ICO, but to set the standard for safeguarding in the video games industry.
Furthermore, all AEGIS Game Studios staff and volunteers receive annual Safeguarding and Prevent training.
GAME 1: AEGIS KINGDOMS
AEGIS Kingdoms is a fictional, immersive fantasy world set in our adaptation of the King Arthur legend. Players can explore many worlds filled with different creatures, races and cultures, how they relate to Christ (who is called Aleph in the game), the impacts of sin in the world, and an engaging story that players can experience together.
Key takeaways:
- Multiplayer online-only game where you can chat, meet and live within a fictional fantasy world.
- Initial unit price, with optional monthly subscription (3 tiers at different pricing points), as well as optional premium currency which can be purchased for money and also earned in-game. Inclusive of a premium store which sells cosmetic items.
- Playful artstyle, with low budget cost to produce content.
- Created on the basis: “What if Jesus Christ was in this world”.
- The character “Aleph the Lion” is not an allegorical representation of Christ, rather a Christophany in the fantasy world.
- You will find Christophanies in the many worlds you travel to, and witness the impact of Christ’s ultimate sacrifice on the cross for our sins, and Him being the only way, truth and the life. That no one comes to the Father except through Jesus.
- That is to say there is one Christ, but how different cultures and races relate to Christ varies, but all grounded in scripture.
- Diverse and interesting story to engage users of all ages, but aimed at adults due to the adult concepts taken from the Bible. Subtle enough for young teens to play with comic violence and mild themes.
- Focuses on biblical truth / scripture in a fictional setting. Inspired by other Christian fiction.
- Zero predatory design features aimed to nudge or prompt users into paying money or playing for extended periods of time.
- Development of parental controls to restrict content for minors.
GAME 2: THE INCREDIBLE ADVENTURES OF JOSH & CONNOR: THE PRE-PROLOGUE
The Incredible Adventures of Josh & Connor: The Pre-Prologue is a point & click, narrative-driven adventure game.
The narrative and design of the game allows for “action and consequence” gameplay, presenting the player with a range of options, which all have consequences to the game. This is done in a way that requires multiple playthroughs of the game, but also has an overarching narrative.
It draws on popular and relevant themes like AI, morality, humanity and righteouness, whilst also injecting humour along the way.
It is an explorative game, and encourages the player to take their time to explore the world, immersing themselves in this unique IP.
Key takeaway:
- Singleplayer game, with single unit sales price. Optional additional / new content in the form of paid DLC.
- Playful, bright and unique artstyle to invite and immerse players.
- Parabolic, comedic story telling based on scripture within fictional scenarios.
- Immersive world with a heavy focus on exploration.
- Action and consequence game mechanics, with medium replayability.
GAME 3: PROJECT NEXUS
AEGIS Game Studios has created a dedicated subsidiary studio called Roleplay Forge Games to create a new, safe and immersive roleplaying experience for the RP community.
Key takeaway:
- Multiplayer online-only game where you can chat, meet and live within a fictional cyberpunk world.
- Initial unit price, with low-priced monthly subscription for continued access.
- Doesn’t feature microtransactions at this time.
- Roleplay centered game features.
GAME 4: CHRONOFALL
Key takeaway:
- Multiplayer online-only game set in an original cartoon world, reminiscent of old browser games and childhood cartoon experiences.
