# Civilization Style - Strategy Template | Summer Engine ## About this template The Civilization formula is deceptively simple: settle a city, research a tech, build a unit, end turn. But by turn 150 you are juggling hex tile adjacency bonuses for district placement, racing an AI opponent to the Colosseum wonder, deciding whether your great scientist should pop a tech boost or found an academy, and watching barbarian camps spawn just outside your border. The "one more turn" compulsion comes from every system feeding every other system: your tech tree unlocks buildings that generate great people points that earn bonuses that accelerate the next era. Summer Engine scaffolds the interlocking systems that make this genre tick. You design the eras, the wonder list with historical flavor text, the civilization unique abilities, and the victory conditions: culture, science, domination, religion, diplomacy. The engine wires up hex map generation, fog of war, tile yields, population assignment, and diplomatic AI with hidden agendas so you can focus on what makes your version distinct. Great Civ-style games create stories players retell: the forward-settle that triggered a thousand-year war, the wonder snipe on the last turn, the religious victory nobody saw coming. Design systems that generate those moments rather than scripting them. ## Who it's for * Designers who have spent hundreds of hours in Civilization and want to build their own take on the formula. * Teams creating a 4X with a unique setting (mythology, alt-history, sci-fi) using proven Civ-style mechanics. * Solo devs prototyping a compact Civ-like that plays in 90 minutes instead of 9 hours. * Studios targeting the massive Civilization audience with fresh faction design or victory innovations. ## Highlights * ### Historical Civilization Builder Stone age to space age across a hex map with terrain-driven strategy, wonder races, and era-spanning tech trees. * ### Thematic Civ Variant Apply the Civ formula to a specific era or setting: ancient Mediterranean, feudal Japan, or a fantasy world with magic replacing technology. * ### Streamlined 4X Prototype Strip the formula to its core: 4 eras, 6 civs, 3 victory types, 60-minute matches. Test whether your faction design works before scaling up. ## Highlights ### Hex tile terrain and resources Every hex has terrain type, elevation, resource potential, and adjacency relationships. Hills give production, rivers add food, strategic resources unlock unit classes. ### Tech tree across eras Research unlocks units, buildings, and wonders from the Ancient Era through the Information Age. Each tech opens new strategic possibilities and obsoletes old ones. ### Great people and wonders Earn great scientists, generals, engineers, and prophets through accumulated points. Race opponents to construct wonders that grant permanent civilization-wide bonuses with historical flavor text. ### Multiple victory conditions Win through cultural influence, scientific achievement, military domination, religious conversion, or diplomatic consensus. Each path demands different infrastructure and timing. ## Features * ### City founding and district placement Settle cities on hex tiles, assign population to work surrounding hexes, and place districts with adjacency bonuses driven by terrain and other districts. * ### Diplomatic AI with agendas AI civilizations have visible and hidden agendas that shape their behavior. Some value science, others covet your land. Relationships shift based on your actions across eras. * ### Barbarian camps and world hazards Barbarian camps spawn in unsettled territory, sending scouts and raiders. Clearing them rewards gold and experience. Neglect them and they escalate. * ### Religion and culture systems Found a religion with custom beliefs, spread it through missionaries and holy sites. 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