Editing Freeciv (section)

===Freeciv-web===
Freeciv-web is a version of Freeciv playable online in any modern [[web browser]]. It supports 2D isometric graphics or 3D graphics using [[WebGL]]. The game is a fork of the Freeciv project, with the goal of redesigning the desktop game into a version which can be played online. Freeciv-web introduced several new features, such as [[play-by-email]] support<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.freecivweb.org/webclient/?action=pbem |title=Freeciv-web play-by-email.|publisher=The Freeciv-web Project|access-date=19 April 2016}}</ref> freely available to anyone online, and support for playing the game on any real-world map location by choosing a map using Mapbox, which is not available in commercial games in the genre.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.freecivweb.org/freeciv-earth/|title=Freeciv-web real-earth map.|publisher=The Freeciv-web Project|access-date=19 April 2016|archive-date=18 April 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180418092945/https://www.freecivweb.org/freeciv-earth/|url-status=dead}}</ref> The game's default settings are closest to ''[[Civilization II]]'', both in gameplay and graphics (including the units and the [[Video games with isometric graphics|isometric]] grid). The proposal to create a web-version of Freeciv was made 6 April 2007 on the Freeciv mailing lists, and documented on the Freeciv.org wiki.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://freeciv.wikia.com/wiki/FreecivWebClient |title=Freeciv web client documentation on freeciv.wikia.org.|publisher=The Freeciv Project|access-date=14 February 2010}}</ref> Freeciv-web was originally created by Andreas Røsdal, but is now maintained by several Freeciv developers on GitHub.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://github.com/freeciv/freeciv-web |title=Freeciv-web on github.|publisher=The Freeciv-web Project|access-date=19 April 2016}}</ref>

Freeciv-web 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]]. Freeciv-web supports human-to-human multiplayer gameplay and [[artificial intelligence]] (AI) computer players. Its features are similar to the Freeciv C client, although not all of the user-interface has been ported from the C client yet.

The Freeciv-web server on play.freeciv.org was shut down in March 2018, but the project was revived by a group of volunteers on freecivweb.org.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.freeciv.org/|title=Freeciv project news|publisher=Freeciv.org|access-date=8 March 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180305150458/http://www.freeciv.org/ |archive-date=5 March 2018 |url-status=live}}</ref> Freeciv-web can be played online at a number of servers such as freecivweb.org.<ref name="freecivweb" /> All the features required to play a full game of Freeciv are in place. Most servers offer multiple varieties of the game: single-player, multiplayer free-for-all, play-by-email and [[#Longturn variants|longturn]].