In this ever-changing land, players develop armies through battles, equipment discovery, and upgrades. Their characters and abilities are built through victory, trade, and purchase.

"One of our main goals for The Continuum is to give our players a feeling of ownership over their characters, the storyline and in the world where they are investing their time," says Tim Harris, co-founder and Chief Executive Officer. "The Continuum allows players to take an active role as part of a community in influencing how the story and, in turn, the gameplay evolves.”

The Continuum offers an expanding universe of dynamic digital characters from distinct game realities that do battle with each other in head-to-head online matchups. Characters, ranging in rarity from common to unique to limited edition to one-of-a-kind, are constantly developing through The Continuum’s RPG game elements. And, unlike other RPGs, players’ developed characters all retain their built-up RPG statistics from game to game and version to version.

Players begin The Continuum with a set of diverse digital characters with unique attributes and abilities. They are able to alter their digital collections by trading with other players, purchasing new digital packs of randomly generated characters, or by spending battle-earned experience points on upgraded abilities, including new characteristics and combat actions. This customization feature ensures that players who start with the same ‘out of the box’ digital character can strategically create a new unique digital character honed to fight battles in the manner best suited to the player.

Players can view their digital character’s unique standing (number in set and in existence), characteristics, abilities, equipment (weapons, magic, armor, tools), and history (back story, number of kills, battles, damages and other battle statistics). Characteristics for each digital character include strength, intelligence, willpower, constitution, dexterity, speed, and abilities.

The Continuum provides players with many ways to develop their digital characters by allowing them to use experience points for alterations, such as increasing and adding new characteristics and abilities. This allows the character to be better prepared for battle through increased power, damage, and duration of abilities or access to new equipment, weapons or armor.

The Continuum introduces gamers to the Crossworld, a plane of reality formed when four others collapsed into each other during a Disruption in the space/time continuum. Landforms and creatures have come spilling in from other worlds, and the confused inhabitants of this new land find themselves caught up in battles for power, resources and protection. The cobbled-together world of the Crossworld contains ruins from the great Legion city, which finds itself near the inhabited forest of the shape-shifting Ursa, which in turn lies near the great mountains or ruined villages of the Vampires. No ones knows why they’re here, and as strange as the land has become, the other beings they meet are stranger still. Conflicts both global and personal arise out of this new existence and central to every character’s journey are questions. What caused these worlds to collide? Who is responsible for this Disruption? What else is coming? Comics, web fiction, animation and hidden narratives will answer these and other questions as players uncover the secrets of The Continuum.

Players meet up through lobbies, challenges and match-making to start or join a game. Before beginning to play, players assess their challengers’ rank, record and history and then accept a battle. Once they have chosen their opponent, players agree to the match-up’s rules, such as points, battlefield, stakes, timeouts and victory conditions. Players then choose their armies and place them in custom squads on the battlefield. With the current four realities, players are able to challenge each other on distinct battlefields, each with strategic differences and considerations. Battlefields range from the plains, forests, mountains, swamps, cities and deserts to arctic, jungle, and volcanic landscapes.

Seven Lights plans to support The Continuum by delivering online and offline narrative and gameplay progressions. Online components will include deep community-based web experiences, as well as expansion packs and new content featuring new characters, abilities, game modes and environments. Offline content will include comic books, books, and digital video.

The Continuum will launch in the Spring of 2007.

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