Posted by geekamongus 1 day ago
Instead of a real estate tycoon, you are an elected steward of the building, held responsible by the Assembly. Homes are allocated off a waitlist, dues are set on a sliding scale, and you face outside pressures from neighboring capitalist landlords.
The crown jewel is attracting a large grant to establish an observatory at the top of your tower, attracting scientists. To get there, you must make sure the people are fed, housed, healthy, and entertained. If the Assembly doesn't have confidence in your abilities, you get voted out.
It kinda works, and the potential failures in the game are pretty unique. I'd be interested to hear HN's take. An entire SimCity clone based on a different economy like this could be fun.
There's this example of such a game: https://store.steampowered.com/app/784150/Workers__Resources...
Huh, flagged already. That seems just a bit unfair. It's a decent game! Maybe next round?
One thing I wonder about is that it does need some playtesting yet. Early game is slow!
I don't know what everybody is complaining about AI-generated content. In the past, nobody cared how the content was generated (ed, vim, emacs, VS Code, ...). It either was good or it was not.
Personally, I don't care if the content is AI-generated as long as it is good. But maybe that is, because I think that it is possible to generate good content using AI.
- As I use more than one computer, it would be nice to have a Save (or Export?) feature, that just gives you the game state as a file that I can transfer between devices. It would also be useful for backups.
- This could really be a Progressive Web App!
Gameplay was a bit wonky, some issues. I saw the OP was posting here looking for comments, I wanted to give some feedback.
Not sure why it was flagged?
- Building a floor and then the room/office is a bit annoying…. Should auto build the floor (like Sim Tower)
- Stairs are difficult to build, it should be possible to build a vertical column, seems you always have to build horizontally?
- It should be possible to have multiple elevator cars in 1 shaft. Of course this is not possible in real life, but we are looking at a 2D shape of a 3D building. Either that or reduce the demand on the elevators
- In real life, Stairs and Elevators generally share a fire space away from residential, that should be encouraged
Is there a way to build anything on the ground floor, or is it just a big empty lobby? Feels like wasting a lot of space.
As someone else said, the lobby is the lobby - eventually the Assembly starts to meet there once you make enough progress, but that is about it.