{"id":252,"date":"2005-09-23T13:01:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-23T17:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/?p=252"},"modified":"2006-08-18T17:10:12","modified_gmt":"2006-08-18T21:10:12","slug":"modding-civ-iv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2005\/09\/23\/modding-civ-iv\/","title":{"rendered":"Modding Civ IV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shacknews has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shacknews.com\/docs\/press\/092305_civ4_modding.x\">note from Firaxis&#8217; Barry Caudill<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shacknews.com\/screens.x\/civilization4\/Civilization+IV\/1\/092305\">screenshots<\/a> that reveal a little more about the world building tool that we will see in early 2006. Not only will the Python and XML scripting be wide open to Meier-wannabes, but the <i>Civ IV<\/i> SDK will be made available allowing for some pretty deep changes to the way the game plays, if you so desire.<\/p>\n<p>The world builder screenshots look pretty straightforward, but they always do. I&#8217;ve always had little patience for my own creativity. Despite my rational nature, I don&#8217;t usually create in the logical mode that true mod-making demands. But the news that I can introduce new civilizations to the game through the editor is great, so I expect to have my Canadians up and running the world sometime in February. (I haven&#8217;t chosen the leaders yet&#8230;maybe Trudeau and Macdonald. Maybe King.)<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, the delayed release of the mod kit is frustrating for many <i>Civ-<\/i>heads, but at least we are getting some news about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shacknews has a note from Firaxis&#8217; Barry Caudill and screenshots that reveal a little more about the world building tool that we will see in early 2006. Not only will the Python and XML scripting be wide open to Meier-wannabes, but the Civ IV SDK will be made available allowing for some pretty deep changes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5GFeQ-44","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}