The first version I ever played, 1.5.4, had a Civ I look and feel, but featured most of the Civ II units, and some of its rules.
It has continued to attract new developers, and although the path of progress has been slow at times, new releases still come out every few months. Having succeeded in their goals, the original authors abandoned development, but the Freeciv project didn't die. The multiplayer facilities added a whole new dimension to gameplay. The graphics were crude, the interface was quirky, but it was there: the blinking of that first settler on a black map left just as little room for escape as in the original game. In the next year, Freeciv developed into a quite playable Civ clone. The platform of choice was SGI IRIX, but the developers aimed for maximum portability for that reason, they chose C as the programming language and Xaw as the GUI library. At that time, Internet access for home PCs was still uncommon, unreliable, slow, and (in Europe) expensive.
FREECIV CHANGE NETWORK FULL
So if you're a CS student with a well-equipped computer lab full of Unix workstations, and you want to learn something about game design and GUI programming, it's really tempting to write a Unix/ X based Civilization, with a client/ server design and full asynchronous multiplaying capabilities.įreeciv was started by 3 students at DAIMI, in November, 1995 - as it happens, in the same week that Civnet came out, the first Civilization with network support. no source - nothing for CS students to play with.poor configurability, some bugs and misfeatures.The original ( DOS) game, as addictive as it was, had some severe limitations:
Freeciv is a multiplayer Civilization clone for Unix and the Internet.
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