3900 B.C.
Looking back at it now my first scenario, WWII Europa, had a lot of flaws. But the feedback I started receiving when I posted the files at the Civilization Fanatics Centre (CivFanatics or CFC) was really exciting. I thought the Civ2 scene had died out way before, but I found there was still some activity on the forums there and the feedback I got made me think about fixing some of the bugs in the game and also encouraged me to start work on a new project.
Around this time I was directed to a site called Apolyton Civilization Site and more specifically one of its forums called the Scenario League. Here I found a small but very experienced and dedicated group of Civ2 scenario designers and enthusiasts. Over the past few years they have become like my online family and I check in on a daily basis to see what developments there are. The community is relatively small but there seems to be a steady trickle of new members which balances out the numbers when older members are forced to move on due to work or ‘real life’ (what’s that?)
I have become very passionate about trying to keep the community strong by attracting new members. This is one of the reasons for this blog, to spread the message as widely as possible that Civ2 lives on. This may seem like sending out analogue TV signals into space and hoping that passing Alien spaceships pick it up and come to visit, but the number of people I hope to reach are in the double figure range. I’m not deluded enough to expect a major revival in a fourteen year old 2-D game from the last century.
February 2, 2010 at 9:36 pm
Funny, I just joined the online scene, playing at Civilization Webring after playing this game since shortly after release.
When most people have long since stopped playing I go online!
Thats more than half of my life I have spent moving pixelated around to beat up upon their pixelated enemies!
February 9, 2010 at 4:33 pm
Hi Ingvar. I take it you realize this is McMonkey from Civ Webrings blog. Thanks for being the first person to respond to my blog! I need to add some more content, perhaps some screenshots.
February 11, 2010 at 1:18 am
Yeah, I realized It´s you.
I have also been making some attempts to get to new players, or older players rather, since I´m sure there are many people who have played this game but have gotten tired of the same old vanilla Civ 2 would be very interested in all the good scenarios that have been made for this game.
If only they knew about them. Maybe get a few more people to the pbem scene, could make a big difference. (I´m dying to get that First Strike game going!)
This attempt here failed I guess, I will try again in a month maybe.
http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/axadp/anyone_here_still_play_civilization_2/