FIRE In development · Coming to iPhone

Burn it down. Watch it grow.

A world where we burn it down, and a new scenic world grows. FIRE is a calm game for iPhone about lightning, wildfire, rain — and the garden that comes after.

How it plays.

You look down on a small world of soft, pillow-shaped squares: green grass, golden dry grass, brown scrub and blue water. Tap the land, and lightning strikes where you touched. The fire catches and runs, the wind throws sparks ahead of it, and then the storm arrives and the rain puts it out.

There are no words and no instructions. Each colour shows you what it does the first time it burns — dry grass races, scrub smoulders slowly, water stops the flames unless it is narrow enough for a spark to jump.

Free play — unlimited lightning, no score and no end. Just the pleasure of calling down a storm and watching the fire grow.
Challenge — burn enough of the land before the rain arrives, with as few strikes as you can.
New lightning as you go — each landscape adds one new thing, and the storm grows with it, up to a grand finale.

A calm evening over rows of green and golden squares, hills in the haze — One run on the game's test ground, from the game itself. It is still in development, and the look is still being tuned.

Flames running across the squares, a wall of fire on the far terraces — One run on the game's test ground, from the game itself. It is still in development, and the look is still being tuned.

Then it grows back — as your garden.

Fire here is not only an ending. After the rain, what burned grows back: first the silver grass, whose roots survive the fire, then small wildflowers in calm colours. What grows depends on how the land burned, so two players who strike the same way still grow two different gardens.

Your garden stays. Come back to it, fly low over it, and share a fly-over video from your iPhone.

In every valley stands a rain tree, a tree you see all over Taiwan. It never burns. It sways in the heat, and when the land grows back it blooms pink.

The rain tree in pink bloom above the water, from the game

Eight landscapes, inspired by Taiwan.

Each landscape teaches one new thing and takes its feeling from a place in Taiwan. They are inspired by those places and shaped by hand for play — not maps of them.

1Shore — inspired by a meadow on the shore of Sun Moon Lake
2Golden Corridor — inspired by the silver grass of Yangmingshan
3Heather Moor — inspired by the dwarf-bamboo highlands of Hehuanshan
4Terraces — inspired by the tea terraces of Alishan and Pinglin
5Windswept Downs — inspired by the Longpan grassland at Kenting
6River Delta — inspired by the Lanyang delta and the Yilan wetlands
7Storm Valley — inspired by the East Rift Valley's rice fields at dusk, with a typhoon coming
8The Great Valley — inspired by Taroko and the Liwu River, softened into hills, under a sea of clouds

Golden Corridor before the fire: green terraces stepping down to the water, a band of golden dry grass beyond — Three of the eight, before the first strike, in daylight. In-development frames from the game.

Heather Moor before the fire: terraces of brown scrub — Three of the eight, before the first strike, in daylight. In-development frames from the game.

每座山谷都藏着一记完美的雷击

Every valley hides one perfect strike.

Finding it is up to you.

Questions

Is FIRE out yet?

Not yet. FIRE is in development and coming to iPhone. There is no release date and no price yet, and nothing to download today.

Which devices will it run on?

iPhone. FIRE is made for the phone in your hand: you aim with a tap and fly over your world with your fingers.

Are the landscapes real places?

They are inspired by real places in Taiwan — a lake shore, silver-grass hills, tea terraces, a river delta, a gorge — and then shaped by hand for play. They are not maps of those places.

Where is the perfect strike?

Every valley hides one perfect strike. Finding it is the secret, so we are not saying where it is.

Coming to iPhone

In development · No release date yet