Civilization VI’s wonder movies are a fan favourite – and, as many players have pointed out, they are over almost as soon as they begin. A fan project called WonderForge is rebuilding them as much longer short films that run in a browser, following the construction from the quarry to the finished monument.
Four films are finished and playable: the Pyramids of Giza, Stonehenge, the Colosseum, and the Eiffel Tower. Giza, Stonehenge and the Colosseum run about a minute each, while the Eiffel Tower runs roughly three. Six more are listed as “In production”: Petra, Chichén Itzá, Machu Picchu, Angkor Wat, the Forbidden City, and the Sydney Opera House.
The approach is unusually literal. Every structural solid in a scene has a real position, and nothing scales up from nothing, fades in, teleports, or rises out of the ground — if a stone sits on the pyramid, a crew carried it there, along a route that existed, using equipment that was on site. Each film has a scrubbable timeline, an optional narrated history, and a wonder-specific score, so you can step back and forth through the build instead of watching it once.
Everything is generated in code. All geometry is procedural or authored for the project, and no assets from any Civilization game are used. The source is published on GitHub under the MIT licence, built with TypeScript, React, Three.js and Vite, and deployed as a static site — there is nothing to install. The creator, who announced the project on r/civ, credits coding agents for the implementation, ElevenLabs for the narration voices, and Google Lyria for the music scores. Narration claims are sourced against primary and official material and recorded alongside each film. WonderForge is an unofficial fan project with no affiliation to Firaxis Games or 2K.
You can watch the finished wonders at wonderforge.pages.dev, and the source is on GitHub. The project was first shared in the r/civ announcement thread.
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