Open source, plugin-driven, Civilization clone, written in TypeScript.

Play online at https://civ-clone.github.io/ (Original game files required!)

The aims for this project are to:

• build a working clone of the original Civilization.
• make the engine extensible enough that concepts from any Civilization game can be written and included or excluded.
• make the engine decoupled from a renderer so that it's possible to run a headless, AI-driven game, as well as a single or multi-player game driven via either a rich GUI or even command-line.
• allow third-party contributed plugins to augment the game.

This originally started as: @dom111/civ-clone. The historical commits here will provide insight into where a lot of the core concepts have originated and might be interest.

All plugins are written in TypeScript and future ones will be too. An Electron renderer has been started and is in a working state. The Clients are set up in such a way that adding a networked client should be possible (ignoring all the potential networking specific problems!). The assets are currently generated using the original game's assets.

The current flow is that a string of dependencies are utilised so that, for example, civ-clone-electron would depend on electron-renderer and the civ1-* packages and would be able to give an experience that's comparable with the original Civilization. Then the aim would be to make similar packages for the other Civilization games so that all the core concepts and functionality can be easily transplanted to older games. Like Civ1 but want to add religion? Done. Want to add custom units for the Mongols? Easy.

The world generation is currently pretty rudimentary, but would be easy to replace with something else in the future.

• Diplomatic negotiation (and Diplomats)
• Caravans and trade routes
• Save and load
• Choosing the worked tiles in a city and employing entertainers/tax men/scientists
• Selling city improvements
• Victory conditions
• Palace
• GoTo for Units
• No save/load functionality.
• Pollution isn't implemented.
• Probably a bunch more stuff

• There's no Anarchy period when changing governments.
• Some of the Wonders don't actually do anything yet.

• Move units
• Build cities and irrigate, mine, road the terrain
• Build units, city improvements and wonders
• Attack enemies and capture cities
• Discover Advances
• Unit obsolescence
• Goody huts (Gold, Advance, Unit - Horseman or Swordman, Advanced Tribe)
• All 14 Civilizations from the original game (with "modern" city names - where applicable)
• Civ 5-style notification system for delaying choosing advances/choosing what to build in cities
• Change governments and utilise the features of each
• Change the Tax, Research, Luxuries rates
• Play on Earth
• Some charts and civilization-wide breakdowns/info

Feel free to ask anything in the discussions section of the organisation:

https://github.com/civ-clone/civ-clone/discussions/new/choose

I'm also trying to post updates when there are any interesting changes, and I'll post screenshots of anything fun at the following thread:

https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/yet-anther-clone.680494/latest

You can also follow this project to see when updates are made.

The web-renderer available at https://civ-clone.github.io/ shows a simple changelog when clicking on the version in the corner of the main menu too.

The Electron renderer is currently decommissioned, but only whilst I'm working on the web-renderer. The aim is that the web-renderer will be split out separating the UI from the Engine further.

The web-renderer is available to play online via:

https://civ-clone.github.io/

You currently need a copy of the original game files (TER257.PIC and SP257.PIC) to provide the basic assets.

The entirety of the logic for a component is provided via a stand-alone package, some are core or base which are the primary components of the game itself and would need a suitable replacement to be removed, but should be possible to augment as required. core-* packages only expose base classes/interfaces which base-* packages implement and extend.

Rules should control all the interactions from how resources are counted and accumulated, to what governments are available, to A/D/M/V values for Units etc.

Loads! See TODO for the bigger ideas that are outstanding as well as looking for // TODO in the codebase.

To contribute to the project, fork the relevant repo, create a branch and make your changes. Once you are happy with them, ensure that npm run build (or yarn build) runs successfully and open a PR!