{"id":708,"date":"2007-07-18T16:48:50","date_gmt":"2007-07-18T20:48:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2007\/07\/18\/another-history-of-civilization\/"},"modified":"2007-12-17T14:24:01","modified_gmt":"2007-12-17T18:24:01","slug":"another-history-of-civilization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2007\/07\/18\/another-history-of-civilization\/","title":{"rendered":"Another History of Civilization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For those of you who missed my thumbnail sketch of the entire series in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&#038;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2F2K-Games-710425310744-Civilization-Chronicles%2Fdp%2FB000IU1PQA%3Fie%3DUTF8%26s%3Dvideogames%26qid%3D1184791690%26sr%3D8-1&#038;tag=flaofste-20&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325\">Civ Chronicles<\/a><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=flaofste-20&amp;l=ur2&amp;o=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/>, Benj Edwards  from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\">Vintage Computing<\/a> has done a bang-up job on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/feature\/1523\/the_history_of_civilization.php\">the original game for Gamasutra<\/a>. Edwards contacted me early in his research, wanting to make sure that he was covering the bases and that he wasn&#8217;t simply duplicating stuff already publicly available. Would that all game historians were so thorough.<\/p>\n<p>His history is thorough and well-written and certainly worth reading through the 10 pages. (The last half is an interview with Sid Meier.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those of you who missed my thumbnail sketch of the entire series in the Civ Chronicles, Benj Edwards from Vintage Computing has done a bang-up job on the original game for Gamasutra. Edwards contacted me early in his research, wanting to make sure that he was covering the bases and that he wasn&#8217;t simply [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":[8],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5GFeQ-bq","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708"}],"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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}