Knowra Civilization (1991 video game) Civilization (1991 video game) A turn-based strategy game designed by Sid Meier in which players guide a civilization from antiquity toward spaceflight through exploration, research, diplomacy, and war.
Turn-based strategy : A strategy-game format in which players take actions in discrete turns rather than simultaneously. Civilization gives each player time to move units, manage cities, and make decisions before the next turn.
Sid Meier : An American video-game designer known for strategy games including Civilization and Railroad Tycoon. Meier designed the game around player choice, historical development, and replayable systems.
4X : A strategy-game genre organized around exploration, expansion, exploitation, and extermination. Civilization became a defining example of this empire-building genre.
Sid Meier's Civilization (board game) : A 1980 board game by Francis Tresham about developing civilizations through trade, technology, and conflict. Despite the shared title and historical theme, it is a separate game, not the source of the 1991 design.
Technology tree : A structured set of research choices in which acquiring technologies unlocks further capabilities. Research unlocks units, advances, and wonders, tracing a path from the alphabet to spaceflight.
Bruce Shelley : An American game designer who collaborated with Sid Meier on Civilization and other strategy games. Shelley helped develop and refine the game's design during its creation.
Hex map : A game map divided into hexagonal cells, each sharing borders with six neighboring cells. The original uses square tiles, unlike the hex grids adopted by later strategy games.
Freeciv : A free, open-source strategy game inspired by the Civilization series. It carries forward the original's empire-building format as a community-developed game.
Civilization (series) : A series of turn-based strategy games in which players guide historical civilizations across successive eras. The 1991 game established the systems and premise developed by its sequels.
MicroProse : An American video-game publisher and developer founded in 1982, known for simulation and strategy games. MicroProse published the original Civilization in 1991.
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