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We`ve received yet another excerpt from the 96-page book The Chronicles of Civilization that is packaged with the recently released Civilization Chronicles. This time it`s a chapter written by Civilization IV Lead Designer Soren Johnson about the online Civilization community.
The article makes frequent mention of Apolyton: among other things it reveals that Soren learned through this site about the developments that took place surrounding Firaxis Games in the time that Brian Reynolds left the company and that because of this they were hiring, at which point he seized the opportunity to apply for a job with the company.
That`s not the focus of the article though, which is the online Civilization community and the many ways in which a Civ game can be played: from OCC to Succession Games, from Democracy Games to Apolyton University and from variants to modding.
We`ve published this article in two parts as a Column: PART 1 and PART 2. Thanks to 2K Games and Firaxis for providing us the article, and of course to Soren Johnson for writing it 
The article makes frequent mention of Apolyton: among other things it reveals that Soren learned through this site about the developments that took place surrounding Firaxis Games in the time that Brian Reynolds left the company and that because of this they were hiring, at which point he seized the opportunity to apply for a job with the company.
That`s not the focus of the article though, which is the online Civilization community and the many ways in which a Civ game can be played: from OCC to Succession Games, from Democracy Games to Apolyton University and from variants to modding.
[...] I moved to Maryland a few weeks later, eager to start my job. My head was full of ideas based on my experience with Civ and Alpha Centauri. I thought I knew all of the ins and outs of Civ. I had logged countless hours playing the game, had always wanted to make historical strategy games, and was full of enthusiasm to make my mark in gaming. If anyone was an expert on the Civ series, it must be me.
I was dead wrong.
I was dead wrong.
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