FCIV.NET
Fciv.net is an open-source turn-based strategy game. It can be played in a web-browser which supports HTML5 and WebGL 2 or WebGPU. The game features in-depth game-play and a wide variety of game modes and options. Your goal is to build cities, collect resources, organize your government, and build an army, with the ultimate goal of creating the best civilization. You can play online against other players (multiplayer) or play by yourself against the computer.
FCIV.NET is free and open source software. The Freeciv C server is released under the GNU General Public License, while the Freeciv-web client is released under the GNU Affero General Public License. See License for the full license document.
Live servers
Currently known servers based on FCIV.NET / Freeciv-web, which are open source in compliance with the AGPL license:
FCIV-NET screenshots:
Overview
Freeciv-Web consists of these components:
-
Freeciv-web - a Java web application for the Freeciv-web client. This application is a Java web application which make up the application viewed in each user's web browser. The Metaserver is also a part of this module. Implemented in Javascript, Java, JSP, HTML and CSS. Built with maven and runs on Tomcat 9 and nginx.
-
Freeciv - the Freeciv C server, which is checked out from the official Git repository, and patched to work with a WebSocket/JSON protocol. Implemented in C.
-
Freeciv-proxy - a WebSocket proxy which allows WebSocket clients in Freeciv-web to send socket requests to Freeciv servers. WebSocket requests are sent from Javascript in Freeciv-web to nginx, which then proxies the WebSocket messages to freeciv-proxy, which finally sends Freeciv socket requests to the Freeciv servers. Implemented in Python.
-
Publite2 - a process launcher for Freeciv C servers, which manages multiple Freeciv server processes and checks capacity through the Metaserver. Implemented in Python.
Freeciv 3D
Freeciv 3D is the 3D version using the Three.js 3D engine, which requires WebGl 2 or WebGPU support.
Running Freeciv-web on your computer
The recommended and probably easiest way is to use Docker. Freeciv-web can also be run with WSL. In some cases it may be easier.
Check out Freeciv-web to a directory on your computer, by installing Git and running this command:
git clone https://github.com/fciv-net/fciv-net.git --depth=10You may also want to change some parameters before installing, although
it's not needed in most cases. If you have special requirements, have a look
at config.dist,
copy it without the .dist extension and edit to your liking.
All software components in Freeciv-web will log to the /logs sub-directory of the Freeciv-web installation.
Running Freeciv-web on Docker
Freeciv-web can easily be built and run from Docker using docker-compose.
-
Make sure you have both Docker and Docker Compose installed.
-
Run the following from the freeciv-web directory:
docker-compose up -d
-
Connect to docker via host machine using standard browser
Enjoy.
Start and stop Freeciv-web with the following commands:
start-freeciv-web.sh
stop-freeciv-web.sh
status-freeciv-web.sh
Running Freeciv-web on Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)
Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)
Developers interested in Freeciv-web
If you want to contibute to Freeciv-web, see the issues on GibHub and the TODO file for some tasks you can work on. Pull requests on Github is welcome!
Contributors to Freeciv-web
Andreas Røsdal @andreasrosdal
Marko Lindqvist @cazfi
Sveinung Kvilhaugsvik @kvilhaugsvik
Gerik Bonaert @adaxi
Lmoureaux @lmoureaux
Máximo Castañeda @lonemadmax
and the Freeciv.org project!