#city-builders — Public Fediverse posts

I've been looking for a city-building or transport game that runs well on Steam Deck and is usable with a controller for ages, and I finally found one!

Transport Fever 2 runs and controls wonderfully on Deck. I can only recommend giving it a try!

For those who don't know, it's kind of like a 3D, high-fidelity OpenTTD. It's really fun and the sequel is coming out this year too.

@gaming #gaming #games #transportFever2 #transportFever #cityBuilders #cityBuildingGames #transportTycoon #openTTD #simulationGames #tycoonGames

So I've been playing _way_ too much #Timberborn over the last month or so, and figured I'd share my Folktails central station layout. It transfers! It irrigates! It gives the wet fur and several decoration bonuses, _and_ it provides somewhere to get snacks and books for a long journey.

(P.S. Don't forget to add the path in the middle of the pond.)

#beaverGame #cityBuilders #folktails #zipline

Want to develop a city builder game?
Here's some things I'd do if I had time for a project, and why I'd do them:

• Avoid agent-based approaches to similate every citizen. It does sound cool and exciting, but vastly complicates your ability to balance many aspects of your game such as traffic or the economy since you need to tune those indirectly through individual agent decisionmaking. It threatens your game's performance and makes it difficult to realistically scale a large city. It's also the model for the biggest city builders in recent history; the alternative market (crowd-based simulation; compare SimCity 4) isn't served right now, which is a huge opportunity! Abstraction is your friend nowadays.

• A unique setting or aesthetic goes a long way to set your game apart from others. Avoid generic medieval and modern-day North American settings. Examples for games benefitting from unique settings are Tlatoani, Tropico, Workers & Resources, . It's safe to say none of them would have had the success they did with a less unique setting.

• Take advantage of the current trend of young people getting really into anti-car dependency, "urbanism" and sustainable city planning. Disregard the US-American SimCity gameplay model of roadside buildings and RCI zoning, and instead design your game with pedestrianised areas, walking, public transit and bicycles in mind from the ground up. Perhaps even rethink other aspects of your gameplay through that lens: traffic management doesn't have to be your game's main challenge. It might be balancing density against living conditions, or corporate demands against public demand.

• Avoid secondary mechanics and genre-twist gimmicks. A unique city builder by itself is complex enough to develop and design, and there's no guarantee that your target audience wants to, say, furnish individual building interiors in a city builder.

• Know your two target audiences: those looking for a beautiful dollhouse decoration experience, and those looking for a deep city design and management simulation (traffic/economy/layout). The former market seems quite saturated right now with tons of "cosy diorama"-style games and traditional AA city-builders; the latter niche isn't saturated at all.

• Know who your target audience isn't. The city builder genre overlaps a lot with the factory logistics management genre, but trying to serve both audiences will disappoint all players. Why would someone interested in the city-building portion not simply play Cities: Skylines over your game, or Factorio or Railgrade for a good logistics factory manager? Workers & Resources is the only example of a successful city builder with factory-like elements, but the niche is insanely small and complex to develop for.

#gamedev #games #gaming #cityBuilders #SimCity #CitiesSkylines #urbanism

new blog post: a few thoughts on jurassic world evolution 3

https://blog.dante.cool/a-few-thoughts-on-jurassic-world-evolution-3/

let's talk about the latest jurassic IP park builder game. it's pretty good! i have played way too much of it lately

#blog #videogames #citybuilders

Looking for recommendations for DLCs/mods/add-ons for Cities Skylines. I have the base game and some of the early DLCs. But what should I get from the Steam Spring Sale to make the game better/expanded/more realistic? #gaming #pcgaming #citiesskylines #citybuilders #sims

Looking for recommendations for DLCs/mods/add-ons for Cities Skylines. I have the base game and some of the early DLCs. But what should I get from the Steam Spring Sale to make the game better/expanded/more realistic? #gaming #pcgaming #citiesskylines #citybuilders #sims

Dystopika update v1.1

Just a heads up about my Dystopika city, now appropriately called Olisipo, the name of Lisbon during the Roman Empire. May the old gods have it somewhere preserved in all its glory.

Our dear developers – Voids Within – launched a very cool update (v1.1) with aerial transportation. The ground level is packed and humanity reached for the skies, built highways and monorails connecting different sectors, residential, industrial, and entertainment. It looks nice but it’s still a bit empty in my case. I have to build more areas with their own identities, as I have been doing. They also introduced new props and new ways to customise size, orientation, colour and brightness. Think that you’re chilling in your well isolated apartment and you see a sea of serpents with moving scales, luminescent and vibrating against a night sky packed with smoke, pollution, and a smell of undergang. Perfection!- if not for the reality we’re living in I’d say it could only be appreciated in the realm of fantasy.

We can customise the highways to have the exact same height. They make beautiful parallel lines. In this disordered world, there’s salvation in geometry. Above is a new area I’ve built, with highways at the ground level and, a bit farther away, I went as high as I could! In the middle there’s a little cluster from when I started the game. It’s one of my favourite screenshots because it invokes a sense of calmness amidst the conflicting shapes and lights.

This one resembles a roller coaster! One day, I’ll build a serpentine highway passing over the main buildings. Since I went for maximum height, I wasn’t able to do it this time. I tested how the roads merge and cross each other. I think it looks natural if we’re careful with the placement. They can be extended only so much. We can make several roads connected into a big lane. More ideas for a new city! This area depicts the Joy-me zone and The Sect farther away, to the right. I wrote about them here.

The new monorails are operated by AI. No wonder there’s so many accidents. Few inhabitants use this means of transportation because it’s not secure. It has however many cameras controlling and indexing everyone. If a crime is committed, the perpetrators are included in the “Correction & Adjustment Program” at The Sect. Many have fled to the outskirts of the city, where they contemplate the beautiful lanes from afar and build new communities and new narratives.

Dystopika has beautiful light leaks and it’s wonderful to explore the city from all angles. The rush hour in Olisipo is no joke.

Here’s a new corporate area where I added logos and stock images. We can either use in-game images or add any image from our PC. I like to use screenshots from my favourite games, but this time the original pictures were the best. I wrote Libera Nos on a building, and I think it’s a great name for a place where people sweat for bad pay.

And finally, a new area in the outskirts of the city, with new buildings, satellite dishes, new mounted signs and cable connectors. Farther away there’s an area with illuminated pyramids that I decorated as a tribute to Xenoblade Chronicles. The devs are working on mod support for the game so who knows what the future will bring? I’ll keep working on this city and in the future I’ll build a new one with more ordered choices to establish better rhythms in repetition and harmony between different zones.

#cityBuilders #cozyGames #cyberpunk #dark #dystopika #gaming #pcGames #relaxing #report #sandbox #simulation #steam #VideoGames #videogames #voidsWithin

Since I started my own instance, I've never made any #introduction... So then, let's get it started!

I'm Mike! I am interested in quite a lot of different things (so I naturally got time management issues, because it's impossible to do everything at once) 😅 It goes as follows:

I make music 🎵 Songwriting, music production, singing, I play piano 🎹 and guitar 🎸 I find it really fun to create songs and then post them online for people to listen. It's also a great way to talk about emotions and share my inner thoughts with others!
If you'd like to check it out here's the link.

I play video games. 🎮 The intensity and the genres vary, but it's mostly #MMOs (#FFXIV I'm looking at you), #warframe or some time consuming craziness like #CityBuilders #FactoryBuilders or just some single players or modded #Minecraft 😁
I mostly play on my #PC, but you can find me on #NintendoSwitch or #SteamDeck from time to time too.

Lately I am getting more and more into #SelfHosting 🛠different services for myself and other people. I also really enjoy the topic of #CyberSecurity 🔐 I'm really excited about #Fediverse and the impact it will have on nowadays world.

If you'd like to connect feel free to do so here or hmu on Matrix (details in my bio). Thanks for reading till the end! ❤️

Burninating the townspeople! Burninating the countryside we go!

We got our avatar of righteousness and boy does he not disappoint! Time to direct him towards Kitava and save #Wraeclast!

https://twitch.tv/undead_zeratul

#PathOfExile #PoE #SettlersOfKalguur #League #Gaurdian #Templar #BloodMagic #PathOfExile2 #PoE2 #ARPG #ARPGs #ActionRPG #ActionRPGs #DungeonCrawler #Looter #Game #Games #Gaming #VideoGame #VideoGames #VideoGaming #Stream #Streams #Streaming #LiveStream #LiveStreams #LiveStreaming #Twitch #TwitchStream #TwitchStreams #TwitchStreaming #Streamer #LiveStreamer #TwitchStreamer #SmallStreamer #ContentCreator #ContentCreators #ContentCreation #SmallContentCreator #SmallContentCreators #CityBuilder #CityBuilders #ClearingScreens #ClearScreens

We Settlin' till we Kalguur up in this league! Ready for some #Sunday #CityBuilding #Shenanigans? We're attempting to build a #BloodMagic #Guardian #Templar and amass an army of minions led by the one and only #SuperSaiyan! Come stop by and #ClearScreens with us!

https://twitch.tv/undead_zeratul

#PathOfExile #PoE #SettlersOfKalguur #League #PathOfExile2 #PoE2 #ARPG #ARPGs #ActionRPG #ActionRPGs #DungeonCrawler #Looter #Game #Games #Gaming #VideoGame #VideoGames #VideoGaming #Stream #Streams #Streaming #LiveStream #LiveStreams #LiveStreaming #Twitch #TwitchStream #TwitchStreams #TwitchStreaming #Streamer #LiveStreamer #TwitchStreamer #SmallStreamer #ContentCreator #ContentCreators #ContentCreation #SmallContentCreator #SmallContentCreators #CityBuilder #CityBuilders #ClearingScreens #ClearScreens

Surprise #SteamNextFest recommendation for #Citadelvm! I've played a lot of rough #CityBuilders over NextFests, but this one was immediately frictionless and fun. It's very similar to #Caesar3's classic formula, but streamlines building proximity and resource allocation in a way I immediately appreciated. There's also a world map addition which seemed fun, but I didn't experience it that much, since the demo doesn't support save games.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2603020/Citadelum/

#VideoGames
#Gaming

The rent is too dang high in Cities: Skylines 2, so the devs nuked the landlords - Enlarge / Remember, folks inside those polygons: If your housing feels ... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=2031406 #cities:skylines2 #simulationgames #citiesskylines #citybuilders #simulations #landlords #yieldstar #realpage #gaming #rent

Cities: Skylines 2 gets long-awaited official mod support and map editor - Enlarge / Kudos to the designer of this umbrella-shaded rooftop terrace... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=2012649 #paradoxinteractive #cities:skylines2 #simulationgame #colossalorder #citybuilders #modding #gaming

I'm putting off buying Cities Skylines 2 until they've resolved the graphics performance issues and gotten it to the point it should have been at for release.

I've watched a few videos from different folks outlining the rough edges and I just don't want to play it in what is at best beta state.

Looks like they have a bunch of LOD optimizations to do, a bunch of balance passes, etc.

Once they've fixed that the value prop is clear.

#CitiesSkylines2 #CitiesSkylines #games #cityBuilders

As I mentioned the other day, I've now played #CitiesSkylines2, and I have some opinions on it. The consensus seems to be that it's a pretty bad game at this point, but I don't think it's that simple a value judgement. I enjoyed it, but it's got a very long way to go. If you don't mind out helping out a small creator, feel free to check out my YouTube first gameplay impressions! https://youtu.be/et34cnN2G1I #SelfPromo #YouTube #CityBuilders #CitiesSkylines

Pues hace días que estoy jugando de nuevo al #Foundation y estoy bastante contento, con la actualización 1.9 han conseguido que todas esas cositas que daban la sensación de que estaba sin acabar ya no están, ahora es mucho más disfrutable y como siempre queda la gran comunidad de mods que alargan bastante su juego.

#Steam :gaming1_steam:
#Videojuegos 👾
#CityBuilders

#presentacion #Introduccion
Bueno, pues me presento en esta instancia, ya que me acabo de mudar jejeje

Me llamo Rubén, tengo 28 años(Los cumplo mañana, pero para la mayoría cuando lea esto ya los tendré xDDD) soy un chico que utiliza #pronombres masculinos y ahora mis gustos ^^

Soy desarrollador de #videojuegos 👾 (Me queda nada para terminar la cerrera)

Me gustan los videojuegos, #CityBuilders 🏙️ #Simulacion, #MMORPG, #Pokemon :pokeball: en general... Juego de todo un poco, pero esos son mis favoritos.

Soy #programador ⌨️ con más de 5 años de experiencia en proyectos de distintos tamaños y enfoques. #CSharp #JavaScript #Phyton #Arduino

También me gusta leer 📚 novelas de fantasía. #TerryPratchett 🐢 #Sanderson 🍽️ #AndrzejSapkowski :gaming_zelda_espada: y cosas por el estilo.

El mundo de #Marvel :comics_marvel1: me encanta tanto #MCU como cómics, #MsMarvel #Nova #Champions

Por último no me puedo dejar la música 🎵, escucho de todo un poco, desde #rap pasando por #pop y especialmente #rock y #metal 🤘

Muchas gracias a todes por llegar hasta aquí y un fuerte abrazo! ^^

Looking for some #steamsale #recommendations. I have a budget of $50-75 and want the most bang for my bucks. I'm into #boomershootets, #citybuilders, #roguelite and #roguelikes, #fps, whatever GTA5 and RDR2 are considered, and #horror. I've got a lot of games already, but I need some that play well on my deck and on my debian desktop. #suggestions? Thanks!

https://steamcommunity.com/id/thesippycup

@craftykraken What sorts of #CityBuilders? I've played a ton of Cities: Skylines but it's quite old now and I'd love to try other things.