Settle The World (Colonization like retro indie fan game for the Amiga)

Over the last few years a fellow named Christian has been working hard on an awesome Sid Meier’s Colonization fan game for the Amiga called Settle The World! Similar to the popular Civ 4 Colonization We The People mod this game adds many features expanding on the classic Col experience (shipwrecks & more exploration rewards, boats can travel up rivers, there’s more goods, jobs, buildings, terrains, units etc) with new but very familiar graphics and is filled with beautiful pedia and cutscene event artwork! He’s now released a playable development version for people to try out and is eager for feedback (Note: Game is still in a early state with minimal AI).

These days most Amiga emulators are quite easy to get working and come with the free opensource AROS kick Rom which Christian has just kindly modified his game to work with, meaning NO illegal Amiga boot roms required, so anyone can easily play this game now! The game supports multiplayer via hotseat and even over the internet (via Steam remoteplay). Christian has kindly written a setup guide and I’ve also made one over at CivFanatics here: https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/682077/

You can download the latest dev build and follow Christian’s dev blog here: https://theotheoderich.itch.io/settle-the-world

Screenshots:

For those that don’t wish to mess with Amiga emulators Christian has also filmed a huge gameplay demonstration video here:

Colonization Bonus Episode Video – How to play as Natives

This bonus video shows our attempts to play as the normally unplayable Indian Native faction slots via hacks and cheats in Sid Meier’s Colonization. This episode is part of a special bonus series where I try to play as Neutrals/Barbarians in every Civilization genre game I can. The play as Barbarians in Civ video series is a bonus sub series to my main how to play classic Civ genre games in HD video series. To see how I was able to play the original Sid Meier’s Colonization in HD see my main tour video here: https://blakessanctum.wordpress.com/2021/11/03/civ-video-series-ep-02-colonization-hd-tour-col-fan-games-mods-scenarios/

VIDEO:
https://youtu.be/oMh1vzXFzps?list=PLZqnaGtTZxFbq3F5R6lqzyVvYzg9tRBPY

CONTENTS:
00:00 Video Series Introduction
00:49 Col Playing as Natives Introduction
02:30 Playing as Natives in Civilization Col scenarios
02:50 Differences between native & regular factions
03:26 EdBigHead taking control of Natives in the 90s
04:42 My forum threads about playing as Natives
05:20 AyCe’s new attempt at playing as Natives
07:40 ColWin different to ColDOS
08:33 Final thoughts, how to contact, & future plans

NOTES:
– Unfortunately our success was very limited (compared to the great success we’ve had in Civ games) and it looks like playing as a native faction is not really possible. However if you’d like to try yourselves then please me know if you have any breakthroughs!
– “Barbarian” is the actual in-game name of the non-aligned and normally not playable 8th faction slot in Sid Meier’s Civilization games. My use of the word is purely in regard to the in-game Civ faction and certainly not anything in the real world.

THE SERIES:

• Attila’s Conquest 1 – Play As Barbarians in Civilization 1
• Play as Natives in Colonization (You are here!)
• Attila’s Conquest 2 – Play As Barbarians in Civilization 2 (Coming soon)
• Attila’s Conquest 3 – Play As Barbarians in Civ2 Test of Time (Coming soon)
• HYKGOMP 2217 – Play As Aliens in Alpha Centauri
• Attila’s Conquest 4 – Play As Barbarians in Civ Call to Power (Coming less soon)
• Attila’s Conquest 5 – Play As Barbarians in Call to Power 2 (Coming less soon)
• Attila’s Conquest 6 – Play As Barbarians in Civilization 3 (Coming not so soon)
• Attila’s Conquest 7 – Play As Barbarians in Civilization 4 (Coming very not soon lol)
• Play as Natives in Civ4 Colonization (Coming very not soon lol)
• Civ5, CivBE, Civ6, FreeCiv etc (Who knows when!)

C-evo Distant Horizon (Civilization 2 & FreeCiv like opensource fan game)

While many people have probably heard of FreeCiv and Civ2Clone, there is also another freely available opensource indie game inspired by Sid Meier’s Civilization 2 called C-evo! C-evo aims to recreate the classic mid 90s 4X TBS Civ2 like experience, but with more emphasis on a custom military unit designer, extremely powerful/deadly AI (that doesn’t cheat), and careful design of the rules, resulting in a true challenge. The game uses similar asset files to Civ2 allowing for lots of cool ‘easy to make’ mods too (eg there’s Star Wars & LOTR mods on the C-evo site).

Like FreeCiv, C-evo has been in development for several decades (since 1998!) and is fully playable from start to finish. Work on the game slowed to halt in the 2010s when it reached a relatively finished state, however in recent years the game has seen a new lease of life through other programmers taking up the mantle of continuing the project and improving the game further. First Chronos started the C-evo New Horizons project and ported the game from Delphi to Lazarus making many improvements (including localization for multiple languages), and then PeterBB forked it to the C-evo Distant Horizon project improving the game even further.

PeterBB recently released version 1.9 of C-evo Distant Horizon for Windows & Linux adding much larger map sizes and more languages. I’m playing it at the moment and having ball, I’ll definitely be doing a video on this for my Civilization video series! Check out the links below to try it out and let him know what you think! WARNING – Their AI will probably own you. 😉

https://sourceforge.net/projects/c-evo-eh/

https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/c-evo-distant-horizon.681373/

Pax Nova (Civ, SMAC, MoO, BE, GalCiv like hybrid game)

I recently stumbled across a ‘Civ like’ scifi 4X game called Pax Nova that appears to somehow merge Sid Meier’s Civilization, Alpha Centauri, and Master of Orion (or maybe even moreso Beyond Earth & Galactic Civilizations) all into one crazy hybrid supersized game with nice looking graphics which all seems too good to be true! And sure enough the reviews are pretty mixed as some love it but apparently the game is pretty buggy, the micromanagement gets full on, and the sole developer doesn’t have the best track record in finishing his games. He did do some DLCs with new planets and races which I’m hearing improve the game quite a bit so I’m thinking I’ll have to give it a try.

Steam Page: https://store.steampowered.com/app/804850/Pax_Nova/