About the Game¶
Age of Time is an action/RPG developed solo by Eric "Badspot" Hartman using the Torque Engine. It is designed to be played online with up to 30 other players at once. Character data is stored on the individual server you connect to and is not transferred between servers — the idea is for a community to build up around a particular server.
The game is free.
The engine¶
Age of Time is built on the Torque Engine, the same engine behind Tribes 2.
History¶
The inspiration for this game comes from my experience working on the Tribes RPG mod. I created most of the character textures for the mod and I also hosted a server for a while, created many quests, and changed the code around a little. My experience with the game gave me a lot of insight into what makes a game like this fun and also how completely irrationally insane people will get as they compete for virtual possessions.
— Eric "Badspot" Hartman
The same author also went on to create Blockland.
Release timeline¶
A condensed version-history pulled from the official site's news posts:
| Date | Version | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 2004-12-07 | — | Site construction begins. |
| 2005-04-26 | v0001 | First public release — "not much more than 3D chat." |
| 2005-04-30 | v0002 | Required upgrade. Adds local chat (Y), resist-rescue, named-zone respawns. |
| 2005-05-04 | v0003 | Speeds up mission lighting. Horse model added (not yet usable). |
| 2005-08-26 | v0004 | Auto-updater introduced. Lightmap rework. |
| 2005-08-27 | v0006 | Two patches to fix the auto-updater. |
| 2005-11-13 | v0010 | Auto-updater fixes; standalone installer recommended for some users. |
| 2006-02-13 | v0017 | Basic stats system, improved AI/spawning, Dynamite, Bank, Post Office. |
| 2006-04-03 | v0024 | Player shop selling, blacksmith crafting. Updated installer. |
| — | v0028 | Installer archive. Release notes not documented here. |
| — | v0029 | Installer archive. Release notes not documented here. |
| 2024-05-03 | v0030 | Maintenance update — works around an HTTP/1.0 dependency in the Torque TCP object so blacksmith crafting functions on modern web servers. |
Installer archives¶
Mirrored copies of the official Windows installer for preservation. Each file
is the unmodified AgeOfTime-<version>.exe originally distributed by Badspot.
AgeOfTime-24.exe(~33 MB)AgeOfTime-28.exe(~34 MB)AgeOfTime-29.exe(~34 MB)AgeOfTime-30.exe(~34 MB)
Useful links¶
- Official website (ageoftime.com)
- Official forums (Blockland forum board #13)
- Community wiki on Neocities — original source for much of this wiki's gameplay content.
About this wiki¶
This wiki is a community effort. Most of the gameplay information was first documented by the Neocities community wiki, with the world map credited to Plastiware from the Blockland forum thread. Official-website material is the work of Badspot. Both sources are reproduced here for preservation and ease-of-reference. See Contributing if you'd like to help expand it.