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freeciv / freeciv-web

freeciv-web

Freeciv-web is an Open Source strategy game implemented in HTML5 and WebGL, which can be played online against other players, or in single player mode against AI opponents.

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REPOSITORY AT A GLANCE

What to know before exploring

What it is

Freeciv-web is an Open Source strategy game implemented in HTML5 and WebGL, which can be played online against other players, or in single player mode against AI opponents.

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Where it is used

No documented product use has been verified yet.

What people are saying

Thank you! The Freeciv web client is one of my favorite projects. As a civ fanatic I thought often about contributing, but never started to do it. Maybe someone from the team…

phaer used a recommendation phrase. One indexed comment matches. This is a phrase match, not a verdict.

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Also in these discussions

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 7:24:48 PM UTC.

No direct repository links were found in the indexed HN discussions over the past seven days. Older discussions are available below.

Mentions over time

HN mentions by year32 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2014-06-04 22:17:58 UTC to 2024-04-11 15:51:10 UTC.

02468102014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments20142015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 9 mentions; 0 submissions, 9 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 7 mentions; 0 submissions, 7 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 5 mentions; 1 submissions, 4 comments20192020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 1 submissions, 3 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments2024

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20142014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC909
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC707
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC514
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC413
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110

What Hacker News says

3 sources
phaer·Jul 3, 2014Recommendation phrase
Thank you! The Freeciv web client is one of my favorite projects. As a civ fanatic I thought often about contributing, but never started to do it. Maybe someone from the team could say a few words about the projects organisation, plans and communications. I know there's a github repo [1], but you seem to use a TODO file [2] instead of the issue tracker and/or wiki. Is that a conscious decision? Because any issue tracker would make it easier to discuss the details of the task at hand. Or is there a mailing list/irc channel which gets used for coordination? I would be especially interested in the client-side code which is readable but, on first sight, a bit overwhelming[3] for something one would do after a regular day job. API docs and/or (more?) unit tests would be awesome because I think one of the benefits of freeciv-web is be that some
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of it is/could be easy to customize for advanced players. [1]: https://github.com/freeciv/freeciv-web [2]: https://github.com/freeciv/freeciv-web/blob/master/TODO [3]: https://github.com/freeciv/freeciv-web/tree/master/freeciv-w...
In Show HN: Freeciv, HTML5 open source version
roschdal·Jun 4, 2014
Hi again Hacker News, please review my HTML5 web game again. It has been almost 5 years since the launch on HN here (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1005299). I would be happy to answer any questions about the development of the game and share my experiences from the journey of developing and running this free web game. The game is open source, so please check out the source code on Github: https://github.com/freeciv/freeciv-web
In Review my web game, the Freeciv HTML5 version, again 5 years later

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