Wildfire Games

Wildfire Games
IndustryVideo games
PredecessorWildfire Studios
FoundedEarly 2002
Key people
  • Jason Bishop
  • Ken Wood
  • Erik Johansson
Products
  • 0 A.D.
  • Rome at War
  • The Last Alliance
Members18 (2021)

Wildfire Games is an independent free software video game developer, originally founded as a modding team in 2001. The logo is the Chinese character "火" (fire). Wildfire Games is currently developing 0 A.D., a real-time strategy game. 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.

Awards

  • Top 100 Best Mods and Indies of 2008[3]

References

  1. ^ Shinsel, Alexandra Marie (2019-05-06). "Identifying the Frame Rate Bottleneck in 0 A.D." Developer Zone. Intel. Retrieved 2022-10-07.
  2. ^ "Pyrogenesis game engine". Mod DB. Retrieved 2009-02-13.
  3. ^ "2008 Mod of the Year Awards event - Mod DB". Moddb.com. Retrieved 2019-06-16.