CivJS: A JavaScript 4X Game (2015)

https://github.com/Venerons/CivJS

by tosh • 8 years ago

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tango24• 8 years ago

Looks like it's just the code, but no noticeable way to play. Is it hosted somewhere?

dajomu• 8 years ago

If you have the latest npm installed you can clone it and run `npx serve`.

benjaminjackman• 8 years ago

I looked over the code for it, because earlier this year I was trying to make a turn based game that merged the gameplay of Imperialism II with the production tree depth of Factorio while having unique little sim like creature with traits that could be bred and inherited and so anytime I can learn something about how to structure code for TBS I'm pretty interested.

Anyhow: it looks pretty incomplete for example here is the GAME.playTurn() function:

    GAME.playTurn = function () {
      // 0. AUTOSAVE
      // TODO

      // 1. START OF TURN
      // TODO

      // 2. TRADE
      // TODO

      // 3. CITY MANAGEMENT
      // TODO

      // 4. MOVEMENT
      // TODO

      // 5. RESEARCH
      // TODO
    };

So I am not sure that `npx serve` will work and do anything meaningful, or if maybe the logic is in different file / branch.

beilharz• 8 years ago

Does https://rawgit.com/Venerons/CivJS/master/index.html help?

jakoblorz• 8 years ago

That was too easy

tantalor• 8 years ago

[2015]

dang• 8 years ago

Thanks. Added.

cryptozeus• 8 years ago

Why not put a screen shot ?

dvfjsdhgfv• 8 years ago

https://apk.plus/products_civjs-apk/

commandlinefan• 8 years ago

About time, all the Javascript I've ever seen has been completely uncivilized.

kitd2• 8 years ago

"What do you think of JavaScript Civilisation?"

"I think it would be a very good idea"

- Gandhi, possibly

mrec• 8 years ago

His opinion is backed by NUCLEAR WEAPONS!

gcatalfamo• 8 years ago

My opinion is that this is best Civ-themed HackerNews comment ever written so far and I would gladly argument it by saying the quoting Gandhi as an ironically peaceful opinionist is very ironic indeed. ICBM.

rangibaby2• 8 years ago

At least it’s not Civ2:MGE

“What do you think of...”

We have decided to rid the world of your worthless civilization. Prepare for WAR!

- Gandhi, every damn time

cabaalis• 8 years ago

Today I learned that Gandhi destroys the world because of an integer overflow!

"In the earlier Civs, leaders are given a set of attributes that dictate their behavior. One such attribute is a number scale associated with aggressiveness. Gandhi was given the lowest number possible, a rating of 1. However, when a civilization adopted democracy, it granted a civilization -2 to opponent aggression levels. This sent Gandhi’s rating of 1 into the negative, which swung it back around to 255 — the highest possible rating available, and thus, the infamous warmonger Gandhi was born." [1]

[1] https://www.geek.com/games/why-gandhi-is-always-a-warmongeri...

swagtricker• 8 years ago

Gah! You beat me to it:) Well played.

sbmthakur• 8 years ago

That might end in the Typescript era.

roschdal• 8 years ago

There is also https://www.isotrident.com which is based on Freeciv-web https://github.com/freeciv/freeciv-web

andruby• 8 years ago

I came here to mention freeciv-web. Isn't that exactly what CivJS is trying to do?

Raphmedia• 8 years ago

This one we are discussing is simply a 4X JavaScript game. It has almost nothing to do with the actual Civilization game.

Screenshot: https://cdn.pbrd.co/images/HBqxLGp.png

jandrese• 8 years ago

It's basically Civilization 0.1

wintorez• 8 years ago

Atwood's Law strikes again!

Jgoure2• 8 years ago

Atwood's Law: any application that can be written in JavaScript, will eventually be written in JavaScript.

jstanley• 8 years ago

Please include a link in the repo to somewhere people can play it without having to figure out how it wants to be hosted.

Jgoure2• 8 years ago

This repo hasn't been updated in 3 years. Why did it get popular today?

ggregoire• 8 years ago

People upvote just by reading the titles (in general, not just here).

cpeterso• 8 years ago

I wonder how the front page rankings would differ if Hacker News (secretly?) only counted upvotes if the user actually clicked the article link (or at least loaded the comments thread and read for X minutes) before voting.

AdmiralAsshat• 8 years ago

The real question is whether the game will accurately reproduce Gandhi's bugged behavior[0] causing him to be super aggressive, or if the JS version will "fix" it.

[0]https://kotaku.com/why-gandhi-is-such-an-asshole-in-civiliza...

Klathmon• 8 years ago

It's such an ongoing theme in all civ games now, I can't see anyone that is a fan of the franchise "fixing" that bug.

s3m4j• 8 years ago

It's a documented bug that every system seeking to replace the original should have to reimplement, else other systems depending on it would break.

earenndil• 8 years ago

It was only a bug in civ1, iirc, in the other ones they put it in intentionally.

lanbird2• 8 years ago

i think its 10% complete, tested

lanbird2• 8 years ago

its just 10% completed, tested

brianolson• 8 years ago

See also a more full working open source civ game, FreeCiv http://www.freeciv.org/

clarle• 8 years ago

It's a cool project, but the code is pretty incomplete.

At the end of a turn, the only thing that happens is that units are healed (gold, science, production aren't implemented yet):

https://github.com/Venerons/CivJS/blob/master/js/game.js#L17...

There's no AI or anything like that implemented just yet.

CivJS: A JavaScript 4X Game (2015)

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