# Freeciv

- Home: http://www.freeciv.org/, https://sourceforge.net/projects/freeciv/
- Media: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeciv
- Inspiration: Civilization II
- State: mature
- Download: http://www.freeciv.org/download.html
- Keyword: strategy, clone, multiplayer, turn-based
- Code repository: https://github.com/freeciv/freeciv.git (@created 2017, @stars 1167, @forks 207)
- Code language: C
- Code license: GPL-2.0
- Developer: alien-valkyrie, Andreas Røsdal, bluss, Christian Prochaska, Daniel Markstedt, David Fernandez, eldritch cookie, Emmet Hikory, eneg, Eric S. Raymond, evyscr, Frédéric Rodrigo, hildeiren, hunter688, igx31, Ihnatus, infyquest, itvirta, Jacob Nevins, James Canete, Jason Dorje Short, jcreusand, katajanmarja, Kevin Scannell, Konstantin Vedeneev, Louis Moureaux, Marko Lindqvist, Michael Stefaniuc, Nathan Brazil, nintyfan, Per I Mathisen, Per Inge Mathisen, Raimar Falke, rdmark, Reinier Post, Sveinung Kvilhaugsvik, Vasco Alexandre da Silva Costa, William Allen Simpson, zekoz, ◢ Ϻ⚸Яℨ⚔ ◣

Empire-building strategy game inspired by the history of human civilization.
See also [FreeCivAC](https://freecivac.sourceforge.net/) which is a patch to FreeCiv to incorporate Alpha Centauri behavior
however inactive since 2002.

## Building

- Build system: Autoconf