Stan on 0 A.D.

We will be attending the 2025 FOSDEM edition!

Mon, 27 Jan 2025 21:29:23 +0000

Key Wildfire Games developers will be attending this year’s FOSDEM conference! FOSDEM is a free event for software developers to meet, share ideas and collaborate. Every year, thousands of developers of free and open source software from all over the world gather at the event in Brussels. You don’t need to register. Just turn up …

Best wishes for 2025

Tue, 31 Dec 2024 16:36:13 +0000

Wildfire Games would like to send you its best wishes for 2025! May you have a prosperous New Year!

Check out our latest interview with the linux professional institue

Sat, 14 Dec 2024 19:37:56 +0000

Check out the interview here

The git migration is on its way!

Wed, 31 Jul 2024 20:34:01 +0000

We’re finally migrating to git with Gitea in August! The migration is planned to happen on the 19th and 20th of August (European hours). It’s been long awaited, more than 12 years! Main discussion: https://wildfiregames.com/forum/topic/115363-a-new-git-based-development-environment/ Migration Plan Details https://wildfiregames.com/forum/topic/121118-planned-disruption-migration-to-git-and-gitea/

Leadership Changes

Mon, 16 Oct 2023 12:38:22 +0000

Stan` is stepping down as leader of the project. You can see his retirement post here: https://wildfiregames.com/forum/topic/108607-leadership-changes/#comment-558009

The next alpha of 0 A.D. will feature an experimental Vulkan backend!

Fri, 13 Jan 2023 07:31:00 +0000

The next alpha of 0 A.D. will feature an experimental Vulkan backend! You can test it and report bugs by downloading the development version of the game. More information here: https://wildfiregames.com/forum/topic/104382-vulkan-new-graphics-api/#comments

Best Wishes for 2023

Sun, 25 Dec 2022 17:54:53 +0000

Wildfire Games would like to send you its best wishes for 2023. You can find one printable version of this card on the forums to share the word about 0 A.D: Empires Ascendant

Vote for us!

Thu, 01 Dec 2022 22:03:37 +0000

Please vote for us for the indie of the year award hosted by IndieDB and sponsored by Mod.io! Head over to https://www.indiedb.com/games/0-ad and cast your vote!

We will be at the 2022 Play Sorbonne U event

Tue, 27 Sep 2022 14:52:53 +0000

The team behind 0 A.D: Empires Ascendant will be holding a booth for 1 day in Paris, France on the 1st of October 2022. More info about the event can be found here https://site-4011908-5415-1446.mystrikingly.com/

Summary of attendance at the Vandœuvre-In-Game 2022

Tue, 27 Sep 2022 14:22:57 +0000

Summary of attendance of the Vandœuvre-In-Game From the 2nd to the 3rd of September, I held a booth in Vandœuvre-lès-Nancy, France. It was a rather small event compared to the previous ones. We had a booth very close to the main stage, and there was a lot of noise. The FCCL gracefully lent us two …

New Release: 0 A.D. Alpha 26: Zhuangzi

Sat, 24 Sep 2022 14:30:40 +0000

Wildfire Games, an international group of volunteer game developers, proudly announces the release of 0 A.D. Alpha 26: “Zhuangzi” (pronounced: /ˈʒwæŋˈziː/), the twenty-sixth alpha version of 0 A.D., a free, open-source real-time strategy game of ancient warfare. The release is named after the ancient Chinese philosopher Zhuang Zhou, who is better known as Zhuangzi and …

Alpha 26 is near!

Sun, 18 Sep 2022 12:17:20 +0000

The next alpha is just around the corner! After a painful feature freeze period, we finally managed to fix the biggest bugs, and we are now ready to release. We’re just ironing a few details like the announcement and the trailer, and we hope you’ll enjoy this new version as much as the previous ones. …

We will be at the 2022 edition of the Vandoeuvre in Game

Sun, 28 Aug 2022 18:41:47 +0000

The team behind 0 A.D: Empires Ascendant will be holding a booth for 2 days in Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy, France on the 3rd & 4th of September 2022. More info about the event can be found here https://www.vandoeuvreingame.fr/

Summary of the Japan Tours Festival 2022

Sun, 10 Jul 2022 12:25:20 +0000

Summary of attendance at the Japan Tours Festival 2022 From the 1st to the 3rd of July I held a booth in Tours, France. This was a first for me as this was a completely different event from the ones I was used to. For those who don’t know, the Japan Tours Festival is, as its …

We will be at the 2022 edition of the Japan Tours Festival

Thu, 16 Jun 2022 17:15:23 +0000

The team behind 0 A.D: Empires Ascendant will be holding a booth for 3 days in Tours, France on the 1st-2nd and 3rd of July 2022 More info about the Japan Tours Festival event can be found here https://www.japantoursfestival.com/

Summary of attendance at the Stunfest 2022

Thu, 26 May 2022 19:23:49 +0000

From the 20th to the 22nd of May I held a booth in Rennes, France for the Stunfest. This was the first public event since the COVID so I was very excited to be able to meet people again. So I took my train ticket and my event stuff and headed to the nearest train …

We will be at the 2022 edition of the Stunfest in Rennes, France

Sun, 01 May 2022 16:47:23 +0000

We will be holding a booth for three days in Rennes, France on the 20th-21st and 22nd of May 2022 More info about the Stunfest event can be found here: https://www.stunfest.com/

Alpha 26 Feature Freeze Update

Fri, 29 Apr 2022 17:57:55 +0000

The date of the 6th of March 2022 at 23.59 CET was the beginning of the 0 A.D. Alpha 26 Feature Freeze, a major precursor to the actual release of the new alpha version of the game. Since then we have been trying to get the new release ready for your hands. What is …

GUL Jamón Charleta Edition

Thu, 28 Apr 2022 07:17:10 +0000

Checkout the latest 0 A.D. interview on YouTube: https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/RqosN47Or14 to understand how you can contribute

New ARM Native test build for M1 Macs

Wed, 20 Apr 2022 09:25:32 +0000

Come test the native ARM build for Alpha 25b! It should give you a significant performance boost over the default one. Make sure to enable GLSL in the options. Get it from here!

Re-release of 0 A.D. Alpha 25: Yaunā

Thu, 26 Aug 2021 13:29:08 +0000

Wildfire Games, an international group of volunteer game developers, is happy to announce the re-release of 0 A.D. Alpha 25 “Yaunā”, the twenty-fifth alpha version of 0 A.D., a free, open-source real-time strategy game of ancient warfare. This version is a maintenance release. Gameplay remains untouched and both versions of Alpha 25 remain multiplayer-compatible. We …

[LIVESTREAM] Alpha 25 Discovery and Q&A

Thu, 19 Aug 2021 18:45:42 +0000

Make sure you don’t miss Tom0ad’s next livestream about 0 A.D. Like the previous one (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NjTHd26l40), you’ll be able to discover the new Alpha 25 release, and hear from Stan about how the process of creating the new Alpha went. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhIOUv0vVw0 Hope to see you all there!

New Release: 0 A.D. Alpha 25: Yaunā

Sun, 08 Aug 2021 00:00:20 +0000

Wildfire Games proudly announces the release of 0AD Alpha 25: “Yaunā,” the twenty-fifth alpha version of 0 A.D., a free, open-source real-time strategy game of ancient warfare. Yaunā is an old Persian word for Ionians (Greeks).

0 A.D. Alpha 25 Feature Freeze Update

Mon, 31 May 2021 08:33:05 +0000

The date of 6th June 2021 at 23.59 CET has been confirmed for the 0 A.D. Alpha 25 Feature Freeze, a major precursor to the actual release of the new alpha version of the game. What is the Feature Freeze? The Feature Freeze is the point at which new features cease to be added to …

Sneak Peek of 0 A.D. Alpha 25

Mon, 03 May 2021 08:53:11 +0000

A provisional date of June 2021 has been proposed for the ‘Feature Freeze’ – the point at which new features for the upcoming Alpha version of 0 A.D. stop being added and the development team focus solidly on bugfixes. This is not the release date. The feature freeze is one of the precursors to release, …

New Release: 0 A.D. Alpha 24: Xšayāršā

Sat, 20 Feb 2021 15:07:07 +0000

Wildfire Games, an international group of volunteer game developers, proudly announces the release of 0 A.D. Alpha 24: “Xšayāršā” (pronounced: Khsha-ya-ṛsha), the twenty-fourth alpha version of 0 A.D., a free, open-source real-time strategy game of ancient warfare. The release is named after Xerxes the Great, ruler of the Achaemenid Empire from 485 to 465 BC.

0 A.D. Development Report: September 2019 – May 2020

Thu, 04 Jun 2020 12:01:52 +0000

Wildfire Games, the international group of volunteers developing 0 A.D. : Empires Ascendant, is happy to present its latest development report. If you want to find out more about the development of this open-source, cross-platform real-time strategy game or if you are interested in game development in general, it might provide an interesting read. If …