The Continuum

One starts by signing up, and receiving free units to build a squad that a player will use to battle other players and find usable equipment on the battlefield. A player can also purchase units with real money, whether in starter packs of 40, booster packs of 15, or individually. The developers have indicated that everyone may play for free, receiving one free booster pack upon registration. Once a player have purchased their units, they may begin spending their "ability points" to improve the units.

Common units have one ability point to spend, Uncommon units have two, Rare units begin with three and Heroic units have four. As a player spend these ability points, they can choose what abilities their units will have in combat. A player's choices is important, though they gain additional ability points as their units level up, depending on their rarity.

The Continuum universe is developed through three issues of a comic book in addition to the game itself. The comics, written by the Seven Lights developers, originate various plot lines that will presumably be critical to the game. A fourth issue is in the works for the launch sometime in mid-2009.

The first issue discusses a war between two shape shifting races, the wolf-like Kherr and the bird-like Talon, and then presents a new cat-like enemy that the two races must come together to defend against. Issue two introduces a vampire hunter and the trials he faces in his task. The two story lines begin to merge at the end of the second issue. The Third issue follows the story of a race of elemental wielding humans known as manifests. It also introduces the first hint of player-to-story interaction, as it is popular belief that the final page in the comic shows a location from the role-playing forum.