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like we need another a low budget civ ripoff

• jerf 2y ago
  Learn your history before shooting your mouth off. Empire predates Civilization by 14 years. Which you might have realized if you thought about it being PDP-10 software. "According to Meier, his Civilization actually started as a glorified version of a favorite childhood board game. "It was kind of like Risk brought to life on the computer," muses Meier. "That was the original idea. And then we added the technology and the whole sense of history to it." Meier was also a big fan of an early computer game called Empire, which combined Risk-like world domination with intricate city management. "At one point, [Meier] asked me to make a list of 10 things I would do to Empire to make it a better game," says Shelley. "That was some of his research on Civilization."" - https://www.gamedeveloper.com/design/the-history-of-civilization https://www.gamedeveloper.com/design/the-history-of-civiliza...
  • NikkiA 2y ago
    Yes, but the other 'Empire' was the better game... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire_(1972_video_game) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire_(1972_video_game)
  • cduzz 2y ago
    I read that as sarcasm. The grand-parent of this comment implemented empire on the PC, and is responsible for me getting poor grades in high school biology. I even bought a V20 CPU so my hand-me-down PC (5150) could build empire maps 30 seconds faster... I've gotten both my kids hooked on civilization but haven't gotten them into empire (or nethack). (yet)