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I always imagine the board game as essentially being SM's Civilisation but really, really good in an indescribable way - with some card games inbetween.
by automatic6131 5y ago
I always imagine the board game as essentially being SM's Civilisation but really, really good in an indescribable way - with some card games inbetween.
- 0_gravitas 5y agoI believe Banks himself said that he used to play Civ and took some inspiration from it
- bduerst 5y agoDefinitely for his later books, but Player of Games came out three years before the first Sid Meier's Civ game. What cool is that Paradox's Stellaris, a civ-in-space game, definitely takes pages from Ian's Culture series.