Wolfire Games is an American independent video game development company founded by David Rosen. Wolfire Games develops video games for

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History

David Rosen founded Wolfire Games in 2003 to organize his

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contest entries. After graduating from

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in 2008, he was joined by his twin brother, Jeff, and two friends. In 2010, Wolfire ran the first

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, later spun off as a separate company. The company was awarded 5th Best Indie Game for their game Overgrowth by

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during the 7th Annual Mod of the Year Awards. The company operates a

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channel on which it releases game footage and highlights new features. The company name was inspired by "Wolfenstein", a stray dog the Rosen brothers adopted in 1996 and named for the

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Games

*''GLFighters'' – 2001 – Mac OS 9 *''

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'' **''Black Shades'' – 2002 – Linux, Mac OS 9, Mac OS X, Windows **''Black Shades iPhone'' – 2009 – iPhone *'' Lightning's Shadow'' – 2003 – Mac OS 9 *'' Lugaru'' – 2005 – Linux, Mac OS X, Windows *''The Broadside Express'' – 2012 – Linux, Mac OS X, Windows (developed for the Humble Bundle Mojam using the

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game engine) *'' Receiver'' – 2012 – Linux, Mac OS X, Windows (developed for the 2012 7dfps challenge using the

game engine) *''Desperate Gods'' – 2012 – Mac OS X, Windows (developed for the 2012 Fuck This Jam challenge using the

game engine. Updates will continue after the challenge) *''Low-light Combat'' – 2013 – Linux, Mac OS X, Windows (developed for the Humble Bundle Mojam 2 using the

game engine) *'' Overgrowth'' – 2017 – Windows, macOS, Linux *''Receiver II'' – 2020 – Windows, macOS, Linux

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