BirdCiv: Civ on Scratch

[hibiird]

Since September of 2024, I have undertaken a project to recreate the game Civilization in the Scratch programming language.

All art is drawn by me. I modeled it after Civ 2, although it borrows some features from Civ 3 and SMAC such as the worker units and the social engineering system, shown below.

A game as Rome. The game menus can be shown at the top.

The tech tree, available through the "advisors" menu.
The tech tree creates itself automatically which allows for easy modding and editing of the tech tree.

In BirdCiv, there is no despotism penalty or commerce bonus. Instead, policies like “Democracy” give a bonus to science and gold generation directly.

Here are the World Wonders, showing which city owns what wonder.

A picture of the city menu, with the production menu highlighted.

Top Ten Cities by population

Not everything is finished yet. I plan on having it released on January 20th of 2026, both publicly on Scratch as well as for download as an .html file.
Any comments or questions would be appreciated!​

 

[lymond]

Moderator Action: Moved to Other Civ-Related Games - cheers

 

[hibiird]

What happened? My post is gone!

 

[Blake00]

What happened? My post is gone!

Fixed.
Good to see you here mate, your project is coming along very nicely!

 

[The_J]

This looks nice. Keep us updated .

 

[hibiird]

Progress is going well! Right now I'm stuck with the "main menu" theme. I'm split between creating one myself and finding a non-copyright theme. Overall the game should come out by the intended release date. (Jan 20th, 2026) I'm glad everyone is excited!

You can see the inspiration for the art in the main menu. ​

 

[hibiird]

Progress is going well! Right now I'm stuck with the "main menu" theme. I'm split between creating one myself and finding a non-copyright theme. Overall the game should come out by the intended release date. (Jan 20th, 2026) I'm glad everyone is excited!
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You can see the inspiration for the art in the main menu. ​

by "main menu theme" I mean the song that plays in the main menu.

 

[Slarki]

cool! Why have you decided to use this programming language?

 

[hibiird]

cool! Why have you decided to use this programming language?

Thanks for the comment! I've decided to use Scratch for a few reasons: one, because I wanted there to be an online version of Civ that was easily moddable. And secondly, it's one I'm familiar with, as I've done Civ-like projects on Scratch when I was in middle school.

 

[The_J]

Progress is going well! Right now I'm stuck with the "main menu" theme. I'm split between creating one myself and finding a non-copyright theme.​

Depending on your plans, I would search for creative-commons-licensed music, there is a lot out there, and often pretty good.