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Fire Place

Savor the simple pleasure of building and maintaining a fire. Best enjoyed during seasonal gatherings and cold, dark nights.

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Developer
Kevin Maxon, Michael Bell, Pol Clarissou, Zoe Vartanian, Galen Drew
Publisher
Ice Water Games
Release
September 21, 2018
7 years and 317 days ago
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Mixed84 reviews57.1%

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About the Game

Fire Place is for people who want the simple pleasure of building and maintaining a fire over the course of the night: something beautiful, complex, and soothing to watch, a living presence in your space with you.

Put Fire Place on that big screen in your living room during friendly gatherings, especially on cold winter nights. Holler at your co-hosts to put another log on when the fire starts to dwindle. Enjoy the crackle and the quiet flicker of warm light.

Fire Place comes with four basic environments: a northwest Forest, an old brick fireplace in Seattle, a bright Santa Fe stucco, and the Washington coast.



In addition, three artists have contributed a personal touch -



Look for the addition of new environments from featured artists as the season progresses.

Features:

  • Balled up newspaper, logs of all sizes, matches.
  • An iron poker and tongs for manipulating the burnables.
  • A volumetric simulation of air heat and velocity.
  • A beautiful and complex dynamic soundtrack by the award-winning Michael Bell.
  • Simulation settings for values such as the ambient heat in the room, the rate of diffusion, the heat coming off of the logs, and more.
  • Graphics settings that allow tweaking of the fire's rendering style.

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