[OT] Empire

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On Sunday, 20 July 2014 at 05:03:51 UTC, Joakim wrote:
> Heh, Walter wrote a game that "inspired a great deal of the 
> strategic gaming genre, most notably including Civilization:"
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classic_Empire
>
> Other than a couple mentions in this newsgroup, I'd never heard 
> of this game, now available in D:
>
> http://www.classicempire.com/
>
> Pretty cool reading the article about how the game got around 
> back then, seems like an early version of open source and maybe 
> the first software to ever go viral, albeit in the much smaller 
> computer-using community back in the '70s and '80s.
>
> Any big errors or gaps in the historical account on Wikipedia, 
> Walter?  I see that its descendant is now available on iOS and 
> Android too. :)

It's neat to see the connections between things sometimes. I've 
been playing the Civilization series since I was 10 years old, 
and then later in life I've come to use the programming language 
designed by the same person whose almost 40 year old game 
originally inspired Civilization. I didn't know that Walter made 
such a large contribution to the turn based strategy video game 
genre. I have to ask now, what features of other games (probably 
tabletop based, given the time) did YOU take inspiration from for 
the first version of Empire, Walter?