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Wildfire Games
IndustryVideo games
PredecessorWildfire Studios
FoundedEarly 2002
Key people
Jason Bishop
Ken Wood
Erik Johansson
Products0 A.D.
The Last Alliance
Number of employees
~40

Wildfire Games is an independent free software video game developer, originally founded as a modding team in 2001. The logo is the Chinese character "" (fire). Wildfire Games is developing two games of the real-time strategy genre. In addition to game development, Wildfire Games has developed the Pyrogenesis game engine[1][2] used in 0 A.D. and separate mods.

History

Wildfire Games began as a game modding studio for Age of Empires II. An idea for a mod, 0 A.D., became an independent game due to the limitations of Age of Empires.

Games

Titles Genre Status
0 A.D. Part I - Empires Ascendant[3] Real-time strategy In development
0 A.D. Part II (Expansion pack)[4] Real-time strategy Planning

Awards

  • Top 100 Best Mods and Indies of 2008[5]

References

  1. ^ Alex S. (2019-05-06). "Identifying the Frame Rate Bottleneck in 0 A.D." intel.com. Retrieved 2019-06-18.
  2. ^ "Pyrogenesis game engine - Mod DB". Moddb.com. Retrieved 2009-02-13.
  3. ^ Michael Larabel (2009-07-12). "0 A.D. Game Goes Open-Source". phoronix.com. Retrieved 2019-06-16.
  4. ^ "0 A.D. - A free, open-source game of ancient warfare". play0ad.com. Retrieved 2019-06-16.
  5. ^ "2008 Mod of the Year Awards event - Mod DB". Moddb.com. Retrieved 2019-06-16.

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