0 A.D./Pyrogenesis

Pyrogenesis (from Greek pyr, "fire" and genesis, "origin, beginning") is the name of 0 A.D.'''s game engine.Overview Wildfire Games http://trac.wildfiregames.com/wiki/WfgAcademiaInto 5 December 2012 https://web.archive.org/web/20120721173546/http://trac.wildfiregames.com/wiki/WfgAcademiaInto 21 July 2012 live dmy-all It was originally named Prometheus'', after the Greek mythological character who stole fire from the gods, for the use of mankind. That name was changed in 2004, after another development team advertised the use of the name Prometheus for their own game. Pyrogenesis is mostly written in C++ and uses Mozilla's SpiderMonkey JavaScript engine for scripting.OVERVIEW It also uses such open-source libraries as OpenGL, OpenAL, Boost, SDL, Vorbis and wxWidgets. It supports open data formats such as COLLADA, XML and JSON. It is cross-platform, supporting Windows, OS X, Linux and various Unix-like OSes. References