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Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri is a 4X video game, considered a spiritual sequel to the Civilization series.Set in a science fiction depiction of the 22nd century, the game begins as seven competing ideological factions land on the planet Chiron ("Planet") in the Alpha Centauri star system.
Civilization is a series of turn-based strategy video games, first released in 1991. [1] Sid Meier developed the first game in the series and has had creative input for most of the rest, [2] and his name is usually included in the formal title of these games, such as Sid Meier's Civilization VI.
Civilization II: Test of Time is a turn-based strategy game developed by MicroProse's development studio in Hunt Valley, and published by Hasbro Interactive in 1999. It is a remake of the best-selling game Civilization II that was released to compete with Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri.
Starforce: Alpha Centauri, the first mass market science fiction wargame produced, [3] was designed by Redmond A. Simonsen, who also did all the graphical design and artwork. The game was a bestseller for SPI, appearing on SPI's monthly Top 10 list 14 times. [2] and resulted in two spin-off board games: Outreach (1976) [4] and StarSoldier (1977 ...
Alpha Centauri became his second multi-million selling title. In 2000 Reynolds left Firaxis games and sold his share in the company to become CEO of Big Huge Games. [2] [3] On June 30, 2009, Zynga announced that Brian Reynolds was leaving Big Huge Games to lead the formation of Zynga East, and serve the role of Chief Game Designer. In February ...
Firaxis Games, Inc. is an American video game developer based in Sparks, Maryland. The company was founded in May 1996 by Sid Meier , Jeff Briggs , and Brian Reynolds following their departure from MicroProse , Meier's earlier venture.
Depicts events early in a game of Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri; 48 pages; ISBN 978-1-56163-242-8; Centauri Dawn / Dragon Sun / Twilight of the Mind: November 28, 2000 / August 28, 2001 / January 29, 2002 Books [75] [76] [77] Written by Alpha Centauri ' s story developer Michael Ely and published by Simon & Schuster; Novelization trilogy of Alpha ...
The game's premise is that Earth became uninhabitable due to an undescribed disaster known as "the Great Mistake", forcing humanity to colonize space. [5] As a spiritual successor to the 1999 game Alpha Centauri, Beyond Earth shares much of its development team and some concepts, most notably its setting on an exoplanet in the future. [6] [7]