Classic Game Postmortem: Sid Meier's Civilization

Why HN readers recommended it

HN recommends it as a great account of how Civilization was made and as a source on perceived fairness in game design.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

GDC Festival of Gaming

Topic

game design history

Format

talk

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

4

HN mentions in dataset

5

Recommendation years in dataset

2017–2021

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From the original HN conversations

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• Ordered. Funnily enough I recently came across this GDC presentation by Sid and Bruce Shelley on the development of the original Civilization[0]. Highly recommended. The influence of Empire as one of the inspirations of the game was obvious to anyone familiar with it. If you're …

• Check out this great GDC talk by Sid and Bruce on the history of the development of the game. [VIDEO] They mention Empire as an influence, and there's a really nice modern implementation of Empire available for Windows and iOS. [LINK] [LINK]

• > I made a chatbot that rolled dice, and it was constantly criticized for being "broken" because four 3's would come up in a row. > These accusations would come up even though they (all being computer science majors) know it's possible (although unlikely) for …