I love the Sim City games (ever since I played the original in school in the early 90s!) I recently grabbed Cities: Skylines on Switch when it was on sale for less than $10 and I haven't dived in yet, but I'm psyched to eventually.
But this time, instead of just jumping in and building whatever (as I often do, recently with both the Sim City mobile game and the Sim City on DS), I'm doing some research on city design, to try and build something in a meaningful way. I want to see what designs I really like most, etc. From what I hear about Skylines, it's super realistic, and I should be able to build a cool, futuristic city that's fully green, sustainable, etc.
Anybody else played Skylines or is a big fan of any of the other Sim City games?
Y'all might enjoy this: I've been working on a SimCity 2000 playthrough series on #PeerTube and had to quit a while back due to problems streaming with OBS, but lo and behold we are back.
Found a lovely Microsoft serial mouse to go with my #HP200LX. I might do a light modification to it to have it plug directly into the 200LX with a shorter cable. Why? Wouldn't you like to know.
I was going to play some #SimAnt or #SimCity this weekend to celebrate #MARCHintosh, but now I'm thinking I may just do an evening #HyperCard dev stream to show off the #zine I've been working on (slowly).
Wanna feel old? SimCity 2000 was released 30 years ago. This video retrospective is an awesome look back at the game and I love the video creator's enthusiasm for it!
SC2000 was way ahead of its time. It's unfortunate how the franchise ended up, although the modern Cities: Skylines series is a great love-letter to Maxis' original vision.
One of my favourite things to do when I used to get a new computer, was to load up the older games and play them at their max settings. I forgot to do that in the last few years!
Back in the day, game developers needed to explain and justify each and every file that came with a game. The user was respected as the local system administrator and owner of the computer.
sometimes I completely lack the motivation to do anything.. but then there's SimCity2000! 💙 There's a patched version that runs under Win10/11 with native resolution.. which is nice.
I just received this from eBay USA: "SimCity Classic - Deluxe Edition for Windows". Pretty much the definitive version of SimCity Classic. The Deluxe Edition will install both the official SimCity graphic packs and the Terrain Editor.
"SimCity was described as a software toy by its creators at Maxis. I believe this is a rather apt turn of phrase. SimCity isn’t a game in the traditional sense as there is no predetermined end-goal, there is no story arch, and there is no end. SimCity can be played indefinitely"
Hey all, I put a little handy guide on how to get EA classics working on your Steam Deck/Linux device (stuff like SimCity 3000, Populous: The Beginning, and Command and Conquer 2):
I learned this week that the soundtrack to the 1990's computer game "SimPark" is actually Michigan. Lots of examples this week!! Took me only nearly 30 years to figure that one out.