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Wildfire

Wildfire is a 2010 casual game developed by By Implication, a group of students from Ateneo de Manila University, for Microsoft Windows. It is the winner of the Game Design category of the 8th annual Microsoft Imagine Cup held in Warsaw, Poland on July 9, 2010.

About

Wildfire focuses on volunteerism to solve the different problems in society, as it was inspired by the typhoon "Ondoy" which hit the Philippines on September 26, 2009.[1]

Award

Wildfire is the game entry of By Implication for the 8th Imagine Cup that was held on July 9, 2010, at Warsaw's Opera House in Poland. The theme of Imagine Cup 2010 was "imagine a world where technology helps solve the toughest problems." More than 325,000 students from more than 100 countries participated in the event. By Implication won first place in the Game Design category, followed by NomNom Productions from Belgium and Gears Studio from France.[2] By Implication took home US$25,000 as its prize.[1]

Technical

Wildfire took one year to develop from conceptualization and planning until release, while the actual development time took five months on top of academic studies.

Wildfire was written in C#/C++ using Visual Studio. It used Farseer Physics and TweetSharp libraries, the XNA 3.1 game toolkit, and .NET 3.5 framework. Luxology Modo was used for 3D modeling and Autodesk MotionBuilder was used for animation. Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop were used to create 2D assets. GarageBand and a Yamaha synthesizer were used to create the music and sound effects.[3]

References

  1. Ateneo team wins Microsoft Imagine Cup. July 11, 2010. Philstar.com author. Philstar.com. Retrieved on 2024-08-05.
  2. Champions. Innovators. Best of the best! (2010 winners tab). Circa 2010. Imagine Cup team. Imagine Cup website. Retrieved on 2024-08-05.
  3. Up close with the Microsoft Imagine Cup 2010 winners. July 20, 2013. Jane Uymatiao. Philippine Online Chronicles. Retrieved on 2024-08-05.