While collecting information about open source games and storing these in a Github repository, I stumbled on the Civil project. It was thought as a cross-platform, turn-based, networked strategy game where players take part in scenarios set in historical battle theatres. The U.S. Civil war was the primary focus. It was written in Python and main development took place between the years 2000 and 2004 with this Sourceforge project. The game was in an intermediate stage, far from completed but already much more than just a tech demo.
One major drawback was that the original FreeRails project used CVS as versioning system, which is now very much outdated. I decided to import the project (and some of its history) to Github and Git. Since 21th of December 2017 there is a Github page for Civil. I preserved a bit of the history (all of the releases I could find on Sourceforge and the final CVS state).
I hope that this will facilitate further development. It would be nice if development of Civil could continue with the help of new tools and library usable from Python.
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