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The part of the trailer where we zoom-in to pedestrian level gave me an idea. For all the higher-level systems thinking happening in city builders, we never go
by dagorenouf 4y ago
The part of the trailer where we zoom-in to pedestrian level gave me an idea.
For all the higher-level systems thinking happening in city builders, we never go into the more subtle signals that can make a city feel great or terrible to its people.
Would be cool if we could zoom-in to a specific person in the game, and ask them how they actually feel living here, what they like or dislike about it. Including useless things that we can't possibly fix as a mayor. But that would give us cues to let us figure out what we could improve.
Then once we interview a few of them in a neighborhood, we'd get a picture of what to change to make them happy. We could also have different types of populations and neighborhood for different types of people.
Something more complex and organic than "people in this neighborhood don't feel safe, so you need to add a police station". This would add a layer of discovery and aliveness to the game.
- paco3346 4y agoI have always wanted something like this but on an even more in-depth scale. Let people playing game dev tycoon represent how successful a local business is. Let someone playing a GTA-like game be part of a police chase. Allow truck simulator players to be part of freeway traffic. Obviously this would be extraordinarily difficult to pull off well, but I can dream.
- dagorenouf 4y agoThat would be brilliant but indeed sounds almost impossible to pull off.
- jader201 4y agoWhat you’re describing is — almost exactly — like how the Rollercoaster Tycoon series works. You can click any visitor, and see all the stats for that individual visitor, including how happy, sick, bored, etc. they are. You can even see them saying things like “I reall like Rocket Coaster!” or “The line for Very Merry-Go-Round is too long.” Then you can aggregate how many visitors are saying each thing about the various attractions or the park in general. And then it allows exactly what you said: make tweaks based on the aggregate feedback and see the positive (or negative) effect your tweaks have.
- dagorenouf 4y agoWoW i didn’t know this. I need to play tycoon games.