Laptop Display Closeup Photo. Information technology website coding Small World Fun and Zany Civilization Building!. Small World is a fun, zany, light hearted civilization game! In Small World, players vie for conquest and control of a world that is simply too small to accommodate them all. Designed by Philippe Keyaerts as a fantasy follow up to his award winning Vinci, Small World is inhabited by a zany cast of characters such as dwarves, wizards, amazons, giants, orcs, humans, and more who all use their troops to occupy territory and conquer adjacent lands in order to push the other races off the face of the earth. Picking the right combination from the 14 different fantasy races and 20 unique special powers, players rush to expand their empiresoften at the expense of weaker neighbors. Yet they must also know when to push their own over extended civilization into decline and ride a new one to victory!