{"id":343,"date":"2007-07-18T13:34:49","date_gmt":"2007-07-18T18:34:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/343"},"modified":"2008-01-15T19:55:43","modified_gmt":"2008-01-16T00:55:43","slug":"the-history-of-civilization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/343\/the-history-of-civilization","title":{"rendered":"The History of <em>Civilization<\/em> now on Gamasutra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/feature\/1523\/the_history_of_civilization.php\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/history_civ_1.jpg\" alt=\"The History of Civilization on Gamasutra\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, I spent a few months getting into everything <em>Civilization<\/em> for an in-depth look at the history of Sid Meier&#8217;s classic.  The result of that work is now up on Gamasutra as &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/feature\/1523\/the_history_of_civilization.php\" target=\"_blank\">The History of Civilization<\/a>.&#8221;  It also includes (at the end of the article) the transcript of a lengthy telephone interview I conducted with Sid Meier on the topic.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d like to extend special thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firaxis.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sid Meier<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ensemblestudios.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bruce C. Shelley<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flashofsteel.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Troy S. Goodfellow<\/a> for their indispensable help in putting the piece together.  I hope you enjoy reading it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this year, I spent a few months getting into everything Civilization for an in-depth look at the history of Sid Meier&#8217;s classic. The result of that work is now up on Gamasutra as &#8220;The History of Civilization.&#8221; It also includes (at the end of the article) the transcript of a lengthy telephone interview I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,17,13,32,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-info-and-history","category-video-game-design","category-video-game-info-and-history","category-interviews","category-news-current-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}