civilization

The world was changing and the People were unsure of what to do. The monsters were gone for now, but who knew when they would return? The old lands may be safe for not, but the villages were in ruin and nobody knew how long the safety would last. The old stories claimed that there were times...

You had vague memories of "Before"... you are not sure but... you died? It's strange but you are sure you experience the world beyond. You touch yourself feeling your flesh and the pelts you wear. No. You are surely alive, there's no doubt about it. The only question that remains is... why are...

You arrived at the island by mistake. You know not whose mistake it was, but they couldn't have done this on purpose, could they? Back when it happened, you remembered who you were and where you were from, what year it even is. But so much time has passed on the island. Between that...

Ymir is a game that I just discovered via my brother and am immediately in love with. It's still in early access, so there's an obligatory warning right there. But what is Ymir? It's a city/civilization builder game in the style of Emperor Rise of the Middle Kingdom et al crossed with a 4x and...

I'm having a go at a Civ Quest. The players decide the course of a civilization, starting from the stone age. Try not to get eaten by a steam crocodile. I'm going to be borrowing a lot from the Chronicles of Nations quest by Oshha, including the fact that this quest will be low fantasy...

If the 20th century was defined by the two world wars it saw and the one it avoided, the 21th century was shaped by the repeated crises of the globalized capitalist order that shook it.The trend began at the turn of the century and only became worse as the system strained under its own weight...

Greetings stranger. Take a seat by the fire. You are cold? That is normal in these dark days. I'm surprised you are even willing to speak with a human such as myself. Your kind is not known for being friendly? Oh? You wish to hear the story of my people? The story of Humanity? Very well then. I...

Equestria. Land of magic, friendship and ponies. A paradise of colorful landscapes, friendly inhabitants and benevolent rulers. At least, that’s what you’ve heard some say. For you have never been to Equestria. You have never seen the glittering spires of Canterlot, nor the wonders of...

The People had been wanderers for as long as anyone could remember, moving from place to place, living off the lands and never returning to the same location within a generation. Such a life style had served the People for countless generations and while the People had not always thrived, they...

...And in addition, how would their society differ from ours? Assume their biology is unchanged from that of the little black ant except they are now dog sized. For purposes of clarification, I consider civilization to be: 1) Written language, which leads into... 2) History 3) Agriculture 4)...

There is a lot of ludicrously intelligent and social life on Earth - ravens and dolphins for example. Some even speculate the primate family are intelligent but well you know. Anyway this is just a thin slice of the history of life on earth and it is just teeming with intelligent life. Is it...

Pristine plains sweep as wide as eyesight can reach. There is no pollution, no slightest buzz of machines. If you moved behind the horizon, in any direction, this situation would not change. If you moved far enough, you would notice mountains peeking here and there, a lake or maybe and ocean...

My name is Astra Myst and today I am finally an adult! Well, technically the ceremony isn't until next week but I'm sixteen now so it still counts. I'm so excited to finally be able to work on my own ideas. Ever since I was a baby I loved making things. Mama made me a doll to play with and Papa...

The oldest tale across all of time and history. The rise, and inevitable fall, of Empire. Whether it last one hundred days, or one thousand years, Empire, like all things, must rust and rot, decay and decline. Whether it be the fleeting wonder of ancient kingdoms, the brutality of ancient...

So I wasn't sure whether to post this in Video Gaming or here but ultimately it is more about history than anything. While its embarrassing to admit, I can trace my politics back to playing Civilization II in 6th grade. Russia had Lenin who sounded cool and the description of Communism was...

The tribe has been hunting and gathering in these woods for generations and trying to survive. We have learned to control fire and create stone tools but only now with the weather improving there is enough food to do more. We have time to meet with the other tribes walking these lands and for...

This is a continuation of Spirit Quest, starting about two hundred years after that one ended. While the events of that quest are the foundation of the Arth Civilisation, this quest will be civ-based over character-based. Due to an age of posterity, you will have some time to build up and get...

I ran across this article this morning and thought it was really interesting -- "Was There a Civilization On Earth Before Humans? A look at the available evidence" by Adam Frank: It only took five minutes for Gavin Schmidt to out-speculate me. Schmidt is the director of NASA’s Goddard...

Pain. Agony. Despair. "We have been betrayed. Indoctrinated units have revealed the Redoubt to the Reapers. Our final fleets have fallen, and the micro-array has revealed our position. It simply took up too much power and lit us up like a supernova. We must move the Artificial Intelligence to...

Turn 0: Run There was no food. There was no food in the lands of your youth, and so your children were reduced to gnawing on the branches of trees in vain. There was no food in the lands your parents led you back to, and so your elders laid down in the sun and died. There was no food, and yet...

Their walk had been long, longer than memory. It was the only way of life that the tribe had ever known. Even the eldest grey-beard could not recall a time where things were different. To the grey-beards of their youth, the answers had been just as lacking, lost in a shifting morass of dead...

Cree concerns hammer home why Civ needs to reject its own traditions I'm not sure I fully agree with this article, Civilization is basically a digital board game after all. But I think it does raise points worth of discussion. Do we really want to portray history and humanity as merely a game...

With all that was happening in the past decade and in recent days, it was a miracle that the monks' charges were in the condition that they were in. Only a few hundreds remained, mostly women and children, many sons and fathers dying the most dutiful death. Monsters stalked the earth, giant...

Desperation A pair of steely eyes stare from the wooden prow of his longboat. Prince Isenbul, of the line of Beorn, stands facing the rain and the wind that lash his ship. His blond hair is pasted to his scalp, his beardless cheeks drip with moisture. Beside him sit his two closest advisors, a...

Turn -1: Foundations A blood-red sun rises opposite the setting full moon, and the members of the Tribe rise to greet it, gathering atop a hill overlooking the sparkling sea. There is much to discuss. In particular, a fairly radical notion has been put forward, and has subsequently gathered...