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#1 EKen132

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Posted 09 July 2004 - 07:14 PM

Of late I've been looking at all the different forums on the boards, ones I usually don't go to and such, and I became interested in some of the older stuff. On the website it said that "Dire Wolf" was the founder of Wildfire Games, er studios at the time, but I've never seen that name on the forums (although I suspect it's Dire Resurrected). Would it be possible on either the forums or the website to make a fairly extensive history of WFG? I'm extremely interested to know it's roots and who's still around doing what.

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#2 Wijitmaker

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Posted 10 July 2004 - 04:16 AM

Yeah there seems to be a spark in the interest in this as of late.

I'd suggest checking out these pages:

http://www.wildfireg...ges/about.shtml
http://www.wildfireg.../tla/about.html
http://www.wildfireg...ewforum.php?f=3

Its a pitty HG deleted our old UBB forums, because that is where the majority of our history lies. I didn't know now, but I could have asked them to at least give us a database of them so we could someday convert them to our current forum type.

If you have any questions, I'd be more than happy to answer them. Perhaps you could assemble the information you gather and write that all inclusive history of WFG :indifferent:

Yep your right! Dire_Wolf is Dire Resurected (Andrew).

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#3 Wijitmaker

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Posted 12 July 2004 - 05:11 AM

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#4 Wijitmaker

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Posted 12 July 2004 - 05:40 AM

some more fun stuff:

Jun 18, 2001 http://web.archive.org/web/20010618085415r...s.com/wildfire/
Jun 28, 2001 http://web.archive.org/web/20010628215457/...es.com/wildfire
Feb 22, 2003 http://web.archive.org/web/20030222193404/...es.com/wildfire
Jun 04, 2003 http://web.archive.org/web/20030604122135/...es.com/wildfire

http://web.archive.org/web/20030417090601/...0ad/index.shtml

http://web.archive.org/web/20030602020424/...0ad/index.shtml

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#5 Aeros

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Posted 12 July 2004 - 06:45 AM

Oh the old site :indifferent:

it brings back so many memories.

I wasn't on the team back then, but still :worship:

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#6 Uppy

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Posted 19 July 2004 - 09:33 PM

Wow that stuff must be old.

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#7 Caedus

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Posted 19 July 2004 - 10:52 PM

Insurrection???

http://web.archive.org/web/20030602022634/...ion/index.shtml

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#8 EKen132

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Posted 27 July 2004 - 03:41 AM

Legal problems IIRC. I wasn't part of the team however, but I was on TLA when it happened and it really brought a scare to us.

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#9 Vaevictis_Music

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Posted 27 July 2004 - 09:26 AM

Wow, too bad the old threads can't be read, that brings back stuff.

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#10 Wijitmaker

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Posted 27 July 2004 - 04:42 PM

You can read the old threads that are visible, but not the passworded forums because their bot couldn't crawl that.

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#11 Lorian

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Posted 27 July 2004 - 06:38 PM

Cool, do you recon there's any good historical stuff that can be read on the old boards?

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#12 Curufinwe

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Posted 28 July 2004 - 07:03 PM

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There is indeed, especially TLA stuff ... like images or concepts

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#13 ZeZar

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Posted 28 July 2004 - 09:01 PM

The insurrection mod brings back alot

Wanna make me cry, yeh, seriously

I remember sending a mail to the guys who stopped them ... they never replyed

Oh man

I loved that mod

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#14 Curufinwe

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Posted 30 July 2004 - 08:07 PM

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Actually ZZ, I thought Insurrection was a game in its own right ...

Anyway, can anybody tell us what the Insurrection guys are doing right now?

#15 Vaevictis_Music

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Posted 12 November 2004 - 02:23 AM

What really surprises me is that it's now over two years since we did the trailer... shows on one of the Old Forum snapshots, where someone comments on how it in some ways beats the trailer for Rome: Total War. :cool: