Editing Galactic Civilizations (section)

==Development==
[[File:Galactic Civilizations OS2 screenshot.PNG|right|thumb|256px|GalCiv for OS/2]]
''Galactic Civilizations'' was first developed for OS/2 in April 1993 by [[Brad Wardell]]. Although revenue from the initial OS/2 release was never paid by the bankrupt publisher,<ref>{{cite web |last=Wardell |first=Brad |date=April 5, 2006 |url=http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/2653/postmortem_stardocks_galactic_.php |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071204221012/http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/2653/postmortem_stardocks_galactic_.php |url-status=dead |archive-date=December 4, 2007 |title=Postmortem: Stardock's Galactic Civilizations 2: Dread Lords |website=[[Gamasutra]] |access-date=April 18, 2017}}</ref> popular support encouraged Stardock to release ''Shipyards'', an add-on pack that allowed users to design their own starships, and this provided enough revenue to support further development, with a simplified version being sold to [[IBM]] in 1995 as ''Star Emperor''.{{citation needed|date=November 2020}} The game sold above 30,000 units for OS/2.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://gamespot.com/gamespot/features/pc/history_spaceempire/p3_01.html |title=GameSpot Presents: A History of Space Empire Games |website=gamespot.com |access-date=12 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020202163117/http://gamespot.com/gamespot/features/pc/history_spaceempire/p3_01.html |archive-date=2 February 2002 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

''Galactic Civilizations II'' was released later that year, adding several new concepts and tweaks. It was followed by another version of ''Shipyards'' (which added both the ship design feature and improved governors/AI), and an expansion pack in April 1997, before Stardock was forced to withdraw from significant OS/2 development with the loss of their market.{{Citation needed|date=August 2015}} It is possible to run OS/2 versions of the game under emulation using [[Virtual PC]].<ref>{{cite web |last=Armstrong |first=Benjamin |date=May 25, 2005 |url=https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/virtual_pc_guy/2005/05/25/galactic-civilizations-for-os2-under-virtual-pc/ |title=Galactic Civilizations for OS/2 (under Virtual PC) |publisher=[[Microsoft]] |access-date=April 18, 2017}}</ref>