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.
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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.
Freeciv is a multiplayer Civilization clone for Unix and the Internet.
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