Is this game Sid Meier's?

[Strategist83]

I hope this has not yet been asked.

I was wondering - after playing the demo briefly - if GC was created by the creator of Civilization, Sid Meier. If not, it borrows so heavily from Civ one might be incited to cry "plagiarism".

[bonscott]

Definately not. And the original Galactic Civilizations on OS/2 predates the MOO series and around the same time as Civ 1. Basically GC's been around nearly 15 years.

Besides, it's totally different and nothing like Civ. It's just a 4x game and they all share a common theme, the 4x's.

[Strategist83]

Different? Really? That sounds interesting. I will definitely look into the demo more.

[Solver]

That's in no way plagiarism. There are many good games built around some of the Civ concepts, and not all of them were created by Sid. Call that inspiration .

[Colonâ„¢]

It's not like game concepts are usually copyrighted or anything.

Besides, Stardock itself happily admits it borrows a lot of elements from other games. They just use whatever they think works best.

[tetley]

I hear people a lot requesting Civ features to be added to Galciv. I think that's unfortunate, because this is NOT a Sid Meier game.

[Trifna]

Brad Wardell actually said that the situation between his company (Stardock) and Firaxis is so opened that their teams go play each other's betas and help.

[The Rusty Gamer]

Exactly. Which is why the diplomacy screen looks suspiciously familiar...

[Badtz Maru]

They share a lot of concepts. One that stands out for me are the GalCiv equivalents of Wonders and National Wonders - we have both an expensive improvement that can only be built by one civilization that provides ane empire-wide bonus and one that can only be built once per civilization that provides a planet-wide bonus. There's also the Trade Goods, which are like the various wonders in Civ4 that give you a new resource to trade (i.e. Rock and Roll, Broadway, etc.).

I don't begrudge the makers these similarities, as they add a lot to the gameplay. I do think that some of the features were probably directly inspired by Civ games and not just coincedental convergent design. The game also has a lot that Civ4 doesn't, like multiple kinds of production, customized unit design, more detailed trade and diplomacy, etc.

[brycej]

Sid Meier's next project is Sid Meier's Sid Meier.

Then the next is Sid Meier's Sid Meier's Sid Meier.

[Martin the Dane]

Originally posted by Badtz Maru
They share a lot of concepts. One that stands out for me are the GalCiv equivalents of Wonders and National Wonders - we have both an expensive improvement that can only be built by one civilization that provides ane empire-wide bonus and one that can only be built once per civilization that provides a planet-wide bonus. There's also the Trade Goods, which are like the various wonders in Civ4 that give you a new resource to trade (i.e. Rock and Roll, Broadway, etc.).

I don't begrudge the makers these similarities, as they add a lot to the gameplay. I do think that some of the features were probably directly inspired by Civ games and not just coincedental convergent design. The game also has a lot that Civ4 doesn't, like multiple kinds of production, customized unit design, more detailed trade and diplomacy, etc.

Hmmm. seems like Sid got a few concsepts from GalCiv, GalCiv1 had tradegoods and national wonders, they were not in Civ2.