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Co-founded Firaxis Games.
The studio continued developing strategy games and later became the long-term home of Civilization and XCOM.
GOTDONE ARCHIVE · 1954 to present
3 public itemsSid Meier
Game designer and studio founder
PHOTO: Official GDC / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0 ↗Made complex systems legible and playful through simulation, strategy, and the idea of the player as the story’s center.
What Sid got done.
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Created Sid Meier’s Civilization.
The turn-based design let players guide a society across thousands of years through competing systems and choices.
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Co-founded MicroProse.
The company became a home for flight simulations and strategy games including Pirates!, Railroad Tycoon, and Civilization.