C1V - CEE ONE VEE

Happy 35th Anniversary Civilization 1!

A turn-based civilization style game built for the Game Boy Advance.

This is my attempt to bring a historical style gaming experience from 1991 into both 2001 and 2026. The main goal being a fully playable, working GBA port with scored music.

All menus and screens have been designed from scratch to fit the 240x160 screen,  and then allowances have been made for different aspect ratios and slightly larger screens in the SDL3 build, but everything is still rooted in that 240x160 and judicious use of micro fonts. Everything has been designed D-pad first for optimal navigation and then mouse control was added as an extra for desktop/web.

FUTURE PLANS

The next big thing I'm working on is multiplayer support. First on the GBA ROM and then overall on the SDL builds. Absolute stretch goal would be some kind of cross-play between the GBA and the desktop, or at the very least emulators and the desktop. Also, a Steam release for native desktop (and Steam Deck) play.

CREDITS

Opening film: public domain NASA archival footage of the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo programmes, restored for this game. NASA does not endorse this game.

Game logic reference: OpenCivOne (https://codeberg.org/rhorvat/OpenCivOne)

World art from the HAS Overworld 2.1 and Pangea tile packs by Aleksandr Makarov (https://iknowkingrabbit.itch.io), used under their commercial licence with credit.

All tracks are re-encoded as 16384 Hz mono QSA. (https://github.com/codename-B/qsa/)

From 0 A.D. by Wildfire Games (https://www.wildfiregames.com), music by Omri Lahav, CC BY-SA 3.0:

    Land Between Rivers

    Albian Nocturne

    Cradle of Civilization

    You are Victorious!

    Dried Tears

    The Governor

    Epitaph

Guqin - Yangguan Sandie, by CharlieHuang, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Debussy, Clair de lune, performed by Laurens Goedhart, CC BY 3.0.

Sitar and Tabla rendition - Freedom Jam, August 2015, sitar Ashok Ayengar, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Amure - Mongolian Dreams (vocal URNA), by Amure, CC BY 3.0.

Revival of Africa, by Moisei Production, CC BY 3.0.

La morena. Son Jarocho, by Koffermejia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Menu sounds from the Wooden UI SFX Pack by JDSherbert (https://jdsherbert.itch.io), used under its royalty-free licence with credit.

Licence texts:

    MIT: https://mit-license.org/

    CC BY 3.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

    CC BY-SA 3.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/

    CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/