Building the city is also about making it cool and really pretty, so if you wanted to build a city centre with an old town vibe, what you could do is re-texture buildings and import the assets to the game. If you model for fun, you can actually create pretty much whatever you want and import it into the game. They can actually make gameplay changes, and import their own assets. We have added four different modding tools to this game and we're working on an API that actually lets players write their own code. We think modding and the community is really important for our games. Skylines - what's your reasoning for opening the game up immediately?** **You've announced modding will a day one feature in Through the Steam Workshop, we have all the mods, maps, even save games you can share with others. You'll be able to share your stuff online, so you can still brag about your city, but people can't send you criminals or whatever. I mean, I don't want anyone coming to MY town! It's all about you being mayor. No, this is a single player game, as I think it should be. So no online requirements, as that game was criticised for? SimCity was announced, we were like 'OK, that's it, we're never going to be able to do anything with this!' Then, it didn't go exactly as they planned, probably, so we thought 'there's still hope!' We don't like to be compared to the newest one I think we're really like classic, old-school SimCity. It was the same thing with Cities in Motion, we loved Transport Tycoon, and we wanted to bring that kind of game to the modern day. We used to play these games when we were younger - the 90s and early 2000s simulation games. Well, we really liked the original 90s games. How you'd get money from tourists would be if the high-density commercial areas are doing well, they are more willing to spend. For a tourist economy, it's about making your city attractive, increasing the land value, making sure the public transport works so that people can come in. It might not be making the people who live there extremely happy, but on the other hand they're still working there. Let's say you're building a city like Abu Dhabi, if their are oil resources on the map, you get a nice income if you favour the oil industry. How you play determines what people are willing to pay in taxes. But at least the traffic parts, which can usually be very, very difficult, we had covered!Ĭity builders live or die on how players can manage the economy - how will that work in Skylines? Adding all the city services in here is a big task to make it well balanced. We had more flexible, not grid-based maps for world building.

We'd already transitioned to bigger maps than the first CiM. They are pretty much taken from Cities in Motion 2. These are kind of like in-game achievements, different monuments that measure your success, such as a futuristic stadium.Ĭities in Motion was about pure transport management - how has it been going from that to building up a full, active city?īasically, we already had the map size and the road building tool. Depending on the route you take, you get different monuments. You don't have to go deep into those districts and policies, you'd be fine just building the city as you go.Īlso, we don't have set goals or requests for the players, other than building the city, making it thrive and having the challenge of a growing city. If you're the kind of player that just wants to build, that's also possible. For instance, if you have a low density residential area with elementary schools, families are going to move in and be happy there, so you maybe have different policies than in the city centre.

The citizens age and the city evolves as you build, giving you a constant challenge that you need to optimise to their needs. You can also budget each of the city services, for example if you have a lot of tourists coming in, you might want to make the buses run more frequently.

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