It’s again time for our monthly challenge, and this time it’s a big one! You start as Gandhi of India on a normal size continents map on Monarch level. The challenge comes with the special GOTM adjustments: You start with one settler on each continent, with 2 archers for both, and with 100 gold. Your choice to settle both continents or only one. You need to bring this setup to world domination (or any other victory) until December 8.
For more info, please see this thread.
Another game of interest for the Civ community has become available (early access): Civitas.
This game is a real-time city builder, focused on the medieval and renaissance era. It is also a sand-box game, with procedural maps. Means you are free to build whatever you want, on randomly generated maps.
While not directly a civilization builder, it seems this game could be interesting enough to keep an eye on.
Discuss this game in our forum here.
Winter time is approaching, and this month has a nordic theme. You play as Kristina of Sweden on a standard size cold and wet Highlands map on Prince level. You need to go for a culture or diplomacy victory, and prevent all other civs from achieving any other type of victory. You have until December 1 to distribute meatballs worldwide.
For all details please see this thread.
The CivGive is a charity event, organized by various Streamers around TheCivShow.
Last year the team managed to raise $42 000 for extralife, and $25 000 were matched by 2K Games.
This year the team will be aiming at $75 000 in total, to contribute to GamesOutreach.org, which helps hospitalized children through games to make ther life in the hospital a bit better.
The Civ6 multiplayer live stream for the event and surrounding activities will happen on December 11, 1 PM Eastern Time.
Right now we know that the following streamers will participate in this giant MP match:
The event is hosted by Nystagmus, Moysauce and PeppermintButler.
We hope that also CivFanatics will do their share to reach the 75 000, and we hope that this will again be an enjoyable event!
New month, new game! In this iteration of the “Game Of The Month” you play as Theodora of Byzantium on a standard size small continents map on Emperor level. You have to achieve a culture victory, but all other victories are enabled, meaning you need to prevent all other civs from winning in a different way too!
You have until November 15 to finish this game. For all details please see this thread.
The podcast StudyingPixels has released a new episode: Games as Historical Problem Spaces (with Jeremiah McCall). In this episode Stefan Heinrich Simond, a games scholar from Marbug (Germany), discusses with video game historian Jeremia McCall from the Ohio State University, also know from the blog GamingThePast, about games as historical problem spaces. This means they both address the problems games address, which they also do not address, and historical accuracy within them.
In this episode the talk about historical accuracy in a range of games, fro Assasins Creed to Valiant Hearts, but also talk shortly about Civ6 and the Colonization remake.
The whole episode is 47 minutes and can be found here, and you can discuss it with us in our forum here.
The four-hundred-and-eighth episode of PolyCast, “Why Do Anything When You Can Pillage?“ is now available for streaming on ThePolyCast.net. This episode features regular co-hosts CanusAlbinus, Stephanie “Makahlua”, and Jason “MegaBearsFan” with first-time guest co-host CivMD. Topics for this episode include:
Intro
00h01m00s | Game Spinoff Ideas
News
00h05m58s | Humankind Announces “Together We Rule” Expansion
Senate
00h10m09s | CivMD’s Domination Strategy Guide (Thread) (Google Document)
NOTE: This Episode was recorded on September 10, 2022.
Discuss: PolyCast 408: Discussion Thread
PolyCast is a bi-weekly audio production recording live every other Saturday at 12 Noon US Eastern Time throughout the year, in an ongoing effort to give the Civilization community an interactive voice.
Episodes have been delayed again by not one but 2 different variants of COVID infection occurring in early September lasting until around the fifteenth and four days ago in October. I’m currently doubled over at my desk working on this, but since i had it edited, i figured i should release it. Others will follow when health improves.
A couple of weeks ago a new interesting game was announced, which just today popped on my radar: Solium Infernum. PCGamesN has as a headline “Doom meets Civilization as Hellish strategy game gets triple-A remake“. Apparently the remake of a not well known 2009 strategy game, it is set in a Hell scenario (therefore the “Doom”), but it’s a 4X game. It’s a real time grand strategy game (like the Paradox games), and played on a hex map. It seems to also feature diplomacy and management options.
Overall the picture is not yet clear, but it seems we should keep an eye on it. You can discuss with us here if you are also interested.