Netciv

Some of the information on this page is out of date. I have been working on a rewrite of netciv, which is in CVS as netciv2, however, I am currently not working on netciv at all. If you are looking for an interesting java project, let me know. If you just want to play a free (as in beer and speech) strategy game, I recommend Freeciv.

The objective of the Netciv project is to create an open-source java multiplayer implementation of the classic strategy game Civilization II. The project was started by Bjorn Bringert and is developed as a collaborative open source project, see the SourceForge project page for more information.

Netciv is still in its infancy, but it is already playable. Here's a screendump. Some of the current features include:

Can read the Civ2 map and scenario file format, which means that any scenario or map designed for Civ2 can be used with Netciv.
Uses graphics files of the same kind as Civ2, meaning that any Civ2 modpack can be used. Tim Smith's excellent HiRes modpack is distributed with Netciv.

Requirements

The gnu.getopt package. [gnu.getopt download page] [local copy]
The org.log4j package. [local copy]
The Beanshell. [beanshell download page] [local copy]
To build netciv you need ant (you can do without it, but it's much easier with ant)

Download

From CVS at SourceForge:

cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.netciv.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/netciv login

cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.netciv.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/netciv co netciv

Sounds

The sound files are not in CVS because they are a few MB. Download this file and unzip it into the sounds subdirectory.

License

Netciv is distributed under the GNU Public Licence.

Mailing list

Please report any bugs and send any comments to the netciv-devel mailing list netciv-devel@lists.sourceforge.net. To subscribe to the mailing list go here.