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Raspberry Pi Gaming - Second Edition

You're reading from   Raspberry Pi Gaming - Second Edition Design, create, and play all kinds of video games on your Raspberry Pi computer

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2015
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ISBN-13 9781784399337
Length 140 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Shea Silverman Shea Silverman
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FreeCiv


FreeCiv is a free, open source, turn-based strategy game that is influenced by the long running civilization series of games. In FreeCiv, you take on the role leading your chosen civilization out of the Stone Age and into the Space Age. You must explore, build out, and research new skills and abilities, all while trying to defeat the rival civilizations that are doing the same thing. FreeCiv has been in development for over 18 years and boasts a large community with years of information and resources.

FreeCiv features various difficulties of AI, single player and multiplayer capabilities, randomly generated maps, rule fine-tuning, and tons of other things to make each game a totally different experience.

Installing and running

Installing FreeCiv is very simple. Follow these steps:

  1. At the command line, type sudo apt-get install -y freeciv-client-gtk. This will install FreeCiv, as well as the FreeCiv server.

  2. Once the install is finished, make sure you are on the desktop environment by typing...

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