Urban Planning - Pixelactive Cityscape

[Skyline19952006 1]

Hey, I was surfin around the past week and came across a program that (dare I say it) puts the urban planning perspective of any SimCity game or NAM mod to shame.  The program I found is called Pixelactive Cityscape, and I am surprised it has not recieved much attention.  Despite its $19k pricetag (outch), a demo is available.  I must say, I was very (stress the very) impressed by this piece of art.  Though not a game and not intended for fun, it incorporated everything I enjoyed about urban planning in SimCity 4, and it even has an equivalent of a U-drive it.  You can actually drive a sedan or helicopter around the city you have built.  It serves its purpose of a tool for real urban planners while being easy enough to use for an aspiring 8 year old city planner to enjoy.  Check it out, its called Pixelactive Cityscape.

[jyoungpa 0]

Hy Skyline,

Thanks for the post about PixelActive CityScape. Our roots came from video games, so it's no surprise that CityScape is fun to use and very creative. We built a tool that gives artists all the freedom of design, while reducing the headache associated with digital content creation. If you have some cities you built up, we would love to see them. You can post them in our forums here: pixelactive3d.com/forum/viewforum.php

We love to hear from our users, so please post on the forums your feedback and suggestions. We'll work hard to keep our users happy.

-Joseph

[catty-cb 4,413]

PixelActive have just released a new demo version, details can be found here

http://pixelactive3d.com/Products/CityScape/

and here

http://pixelactive3d.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=192&p=530#p530

there has also been some price changes with this being the cheapest (Single User - Price: $3,500 USD)

I'd recommend visiting the PixelActive Picture Gallery here

http://pixelactive3d.com/Gallery/

or the players picture gallery here

http://pixelactive3d.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=5

some great pictures to be seen and worth the visit

catty