• Joakim (13/13) Jul 19 2014 Heh, Walter wrote a game that "inspired a great deal of the
• Meta (10/23) Jul 19 2014 It's neat to see the connections between things sometimes. I've
• Walter Bright (2/5) Jul 20 2014 Mainly Risk.

"Joakim" <dlang joakim.airpost.net> writes:

Heh, Walter wrote a game that "inspired a great deal of the 
strategic gaming genre, most notably including Civilization:"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classic_Empire

Other than a couple mentions in this newsgroup, I'd never heard 
of this game, now available in D:

http://www.classicempire.com/

Pretty cool reading the article about how the game got around 
back then, seems like an early version of open source and maybe 
the first software to ever go viral, albeit in the much smaller 
computer-using community back in the '70s and '80s.

Any big errors or gaps in the historical account on Wikipedia, 
Walter?  I see that its descendant is now available on iOS and 
Android too. :)

"Meta" <jared771 gmail.com> writes:

On Sunday, 20 July 2014 at 05:03:51 UTC, Joakim wrote:
 Heh, Walter wrote a game that "inspired a great deal of the 
 strategic gaming genre, most notably including Civilization:"

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classic_Empire

 Other than a couple mentions in this newsgroup, I'd never heard 
 of this game, now available in D:

 http://www.classicempire.com/

 Pretty cool reading the article about how the game got around 
 back then, seems like an early version of open source and maybe 
 the first software to ever go viral, albeit in the much smaller 
 computer-using community back in the '70s and '80s.

 Any big errors or gaps in the historical account on Wikipedia, 
 Walter?  I see that its descendant is now available on iOS and 
 Android too. :)

It's neat to see the connections between things sometimes. I've 
been playing the Civilization series since I was 10 years old, 
and then later in life I've come to use the programming language 
designed by the same person whose almost 40 year old game 
originally inspired Civilization. I didn't know that Walter made 
such a large contribution to the turn based strategy video game 
genre. I have to ask now, what features of other games (probably 
tabletop based, given the time) did YOU take inspiration from for 
the first version of Empire, Walter?

Walter Bright <newshound2 digitalmars.com> writes:

On 7/19/2014 11:06 PM, Meta wrote:
 I have to ask
 now, what features of other games (probably tabletop based, given the time) did
 YOU take inspiration from for the first version of Empire, Walter?

Mainly Risk.