<story><title>Freeciv founded 20 years ago today</title><url>http://play.freeciv.org/blog/2015/11/freeciv-founded-20-years-ago-today/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rav</author><text>&amp;gt; The irony of it all is that last year when i had a couple of computer science applying for a job, they told me that they had assignments of doing bits and parts of a civilization clone at the university as part of the studies, so i guess that the university got smarter in the meantime.&lt;p&gt;Yes, indeed. The Software Architecture course at Aarhus University (which is where the FreeCiv founders are from) now contains the HotCiv project: &amp;quot;This project develops a framework for defining strategy games similar to the classic computer game, Civilization.&amp;quot; The lecturer, Henrik Bærbak, wrote a textbook for the course: &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.baerbak.com&amp;#x2F;description.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.baerbak.com&amp;#x2F;description.html&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Freeciv founded 20 years ago today</title><url>http://play.freeciv.org/blog/2015/11/freeciv-founded-20-years-ago-today/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>DiabloD3</author><text>Dear God, I&amp;#x27;ve been playing this for that long? Its just as bad as nethack. Okay, almost as bad as nethack. Goddamnit nethack, go away, I have work to do.</text></comment>