Colonization is heavily based on Civilization which is generally considered to be the best turn-based strategy game for the PC in the history of mankind. The original Colonization was released in 1994 by Microprose. You can read more on the history of FreeCol. FreeCol 2 will go beyond the original Colonization and will have many new features, it will be an implementation of our (and our users') image of what Colonization 2 would have been. Once FreeCol 1.0.0 is finished we'll start working towards FreeCol 2.0.0. This allows us to have a running program at all times and also to release an unfinished but working game once in a while. Incremental development basically means that we'll add features one at a time. This clone will be developed incrementally and result in FreeCol 1.0.0 which will be an almost exact Colonization clone. Examples of modern features are: an isometric map and multiplayer support. Certain new 'features' will be implemented but the gameplay and the rules will be exactly the same as the original game.

The visuals will be brought up to date with more recent standards but will remain clean, simple and functional. At first we'll try to make an exact clone of Colonization. The FreeCol team aims to create an Open Source version of Colonization (released under the GPL).

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