As a person who has spend more than 400 hours playing civilization 5 I find it easy to name Sid Meier as a source of inspiration. Starting from humble roots in Canada and studying computer science in University of Michigan his first job was not making video games rather installing software in an office building. As an avid video game player himself he started programing video games himself. One of the first video games he made was an early fight sim in the 80’s called Spitfire Ace. This allowed him to make his passion his job and began a video game studio called MicroProse with his friend Bill Stealey. They lean towards making simulation type games, these would include a list of flight sims and a some favorites he is know for today such as Railroads and Pirates. He also started adding his name on to the title of the video games he made. Then he design and made Civilization. Civilization is a turn based strategy game that has become in my opinion a pillar of computer video gaming along with games such as Doom and Warcraft. He is a screen shot of of the newest still unreleased Civilization game called beyond earth verse the first civilization game released.
