Mit der Windows 95 Demo ging soeben mein 444. Upload im Internet Archive online! Das freut mich! Und irgendwie hat es ausgerechnet "Sid Meier's Colonization" diese Woche an die Spitze meiner Zugriffszahlen geschafft mit insgesamt fast 1.600 Downloads. Wieso??? 😜
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“An Outside Context Problem was the sort of thing most civilisations encountered just once, and which they tended to encounter rather in the same way a sentence encountered a full stop…”
—Iain M. Banks, EXCESSION (1996)
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“Sid Meier’s CIVILIZATION was one of the most addicting games of my life… I was pleasantly surprised to hear that Iain M. Banks shared the addiction and that his Culture novel EXCESSION was in part inspired by it.”
—Peter Tieryas on how Sid Meier’s CIVILIZATION helped inspire Iain M. Banks’s 1996 Culture novel EXCESSION
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Sid Meier’s Civilization was one of the most addicting games of my life. I feel like I could have learned several new programming languages in the weeks and months I spent building pixelated empires, warring with foreign nations, pursuing brand new technology, and losing everything in an inferno of digital destruction. I was pleasantly surprised Read More »
Sid Meier on His Legacy, Game Design, & the Appeal of Turn-Based Strategy: BIG TALK w. Adam Sessler

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I have discovered, that I have a few comfort books that I like to read now and then. One has been "Sid Meier's Memoir!" The Chapters are small little nuggets, revolving around how some of his games have been developed, what has been his thoughts and inspirations and with a few glimpses of his personal life, but mainly to show how these aspects have affected his games.
Easy read with some interesting insights sprinkled throughout the book.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50489373-sid-meier-s-memoir