Sid Meier on 10-Year Civ Game: We Couldnt Test for That

Sid Meier, the creator of the Civilization game franchise, tells Mashable there was no way for his team to test a game that spanned 10 years -- a scenario that Reddit user Lycerius posted about on Tuesday.

"I can't say that we ever thought anyone would play a game of Civ for that long," Meier says.

Lycerius posted earlier this week that he had been working on the same Civilization II game gradually for a decade. While the game ends at year 2020 A.D., Lycerius continued playing to 3991 A.D. He described the resulting world as a hellish nightmare of suffering and devastation, where nuclear war between three superpowers had wiped out most of humanity.

The post was simple, but the…
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