Ace of Spades (video game)
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| Developer(s) | Jagex |
| Publisher(s) | Jagex |
| Platform(s) | Microsoft Windows, OS X |
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Microsoft Windows
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| Genre(s) | First-person shooter, sandbox |
| Mode(s) | Multiplayer |
Ace of Spades is a team-based first-person shooter and voxel-based sandbox video game developed and published by Jagex. The game was created by Ben Aksoy and released in beta state for Microsoft Windows on 4 April 2011. In November 2012, it was announced that British developer Jagex had acquired the game and took over its development, releasing its final version commercially for Microsoft Windows on 12 December 2012, and for OS X on 16 May 2013. The gameplay style of Ace of Spades is often compared to a mixture of Minecraft and Team Fortress 2.
The in-development version of Ace of Spades was developed by Ben Aksoy using the Voxlap engine and released as freeware beta version 0.1 on 4 April 2011. On 1 November 2012, British video game developer Jagex announced that they had picked up the game, and slated it for a December release, after having worked with the original development team for the past year.
Ace of Spades was commercially released on 12 December 2012, to generally unfavorable reviews. On review aggregator website Metacritic, the game holds a score of 49/100, based on 13 reviews. On 30 April 2015, Jagex released Block N Load, a free-to-play successor to Ace of Spades, developed in conjunction with Artplant.
On 3 April 2018, Jagex confirmed that Ace of Spades would be discontinued, with the game taken off sale immediately while servers will be available through 3 July 2018.
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