Any other city building games being worked on...

[Charizard 284]

on Kickstarter, besides Civitas? I am looking forward to Civitas but I don't know if they can reach their stated funding goal: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1584821767/civitas-plan-develop-and-manage-the-city-of-your-d

 

Are there any other city simulators indie groups have been developing have a good chance of being successful?

[ModMarkie 11]

I sent a suggestion to Civitas, use the open source model for the simulation engine. There have been some attempts at this (OpenCity, LinCity). The original SimCity is now open source but under the control of EA. I doubt it is of any value now, very old code.

 

On a global level, I sure there are alot of smart folks out there who would love to work on a simulation engine if it was open source.

 

To produce a product, the interface could be propritary.

[catty-cb 4,412]

I suggest you take a look at Synekism

 

http://www.synekism.com/

 

                         Synekism is an attempt at a modern city simulator rooted in procedurally

                        generated content. The project was started in 2010 to address some frustrations
                        with the city simulation video game genre. It is actively developed on
                        and currently in a purely alpha-experimental stage. Updates on the project are
                        posted on the first of every month. Note that work on this project is more
                        or less done by one person so progress will be slow, but steady. 

 

                        The game is a sandbox where control is not explicit but
                        indirect. The player can designate residential, commercial, industrial, and government
                        zones and watch them grow, instead of explicitly plopping each building manually.
                        The game tends to lean towards macro-management.

 

                        The key features of Synekism include grid less 3D environments and procedurally generated
                        buildings. The lack of a grid results in total freedom when zoning and building roads
                        allowing for more realistic looking cities. Procedurally generated buildings allows
                        for more visual variability. Instead of querying a finite list of static models, a
                        building is generated uniquely upon creation using local as well as city-wide conditions.
                   

[AkemiAzula 280]

I believe Civitas is the game to create a worthy successor to 4 if anything does. Mr Smith's report sounds highly encouraging, and I would strongly recommend everybody chip in and help that project. They have professional experience and know what they're doing, whereas BoomTown is going to struggle just to get a start.

 

I hope they reach their goal.

[nuyokcity 22]

on Kickstarter, besides Civitas? I am looking forward to Civitas but I don't know if they can reach their stated funding goal: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1584821767/civitas-plan-develop-and-manage-the-city-of-your-d

 

Are there any other city simulators indie groups have been developing have a good chance of being successful?

 

Hi Charizard and anyone else reading this,

 

I've made a thread of modern city builder games to give some perspective on the history of the genre and related games.  Right now it seems Boomtown, Synekism, Virtucity, Civitas, Cities In Motion 2 and a few others from the independent list are going on.

 

A few other city builder games in related genres are also in development such as Banished for a self-sustaining village theme, Medieval Mayor for an ancient/historical theme, and Clockwork Empires for a fantasy/steampunk theme.

[Linoa06 1,374]

on Kickstarter, besides Civitas? I am looking forward to Civitas but I don't know if they can reach their stated funding goal: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1584821767/civitas-plan-develop-and-manage-the-city-of-your-d

 

Are there any other city simulators indie groups have been developing have a good chance of being successful?

 

I suggest they change the name Civitas, in France Civitas is an extreme right-wing religious coalition, about to be disbanded but still. :|

[Ocram's Razr 964]

Civitas is a fine name. It is the Latin word for Citizen, if I am not mistaken. Because some right-wing nutjobs started to use that word for their group does not mean that the word is no longer good. If some mass-murderer decided to call his movement "peace and prosperity," would those words suddenly become taboo?

 

 

--Ocram

[NBAFAN1 28]

Not excatly a city builder, but there is a really cool looking Transport Tycoon successor in the works called Train Fever.

[nankura 0]

there is alot of city builder games been worked on, but finding one that does zoning and production and has similiar features to the new simcity along with complex simplicity will be tough

 

And frankly, itll be a long time until any of these games see either a graphical update ( Synekism ) or even a release ( Civitas if it doesnt reach its goal of 250,000$ )

 

So unfortantly. were stuck with what we have for the next 6-7 months or maybe EA will give in and fix simcity 2013's problem's

 

Im impatient i know but these projects are exciting, but what were stuck with now and the modern times just doesnt fit anymore and becoming stale

[libellibicus 396]

Boomtown will be the true successor to SC4 IMO. True, it's a long way off yet, but these things will take time. Funding will always be a problem, so the sooner that Buggi sorts out some kind of account for donations, the better. It is a game that is being developed by our community, for our community, and I think it deserves the backing from all members of Simtropolis. If we all get behind it, and donate or help in some way or other, the sooner this Pipe Dream will become a reality. So c'mon people....join the group and get in on it . Let's show EA/Maxis how to really make a city sim game.

[nuyokcity 22]

I'd thought it would make sense to compile all the recent new and upcoming city/colony/etc builder games in one post for reference and discussion. It's a short list for the genre - feel free to post more info, missing games, related games, links and discuss the games as they develop.

New and Upcoming City Building Games 2010-present

New

The Settlers VII: Paths To A Kingdom (2010)

Space Colony HD (2010)

Cities XL 2011 (2010)

Patrician IV (2010)

Anno 2070 (2011)

Tropico 4 (2011)

Stronghold 3 (2011)

Cities In Motion (2011)

Cities XL 2012 (2011)

TownCraft (2012)

Gnomoria (2012)

Towns (2012)

Simcity (2013)

Cities In Motion 2 (2013)

Port Royale 3 (2013)

Rise of Venice (2013)

Folk Tale (2013)

Castle Story (2013)

Timber and Stone (2013)

Stonehearth (2013)

Maia (2013)

Banished (2014)

Evopollution (2014)

Tropico 5 (2014)

1849 (2014)

Spacebase DF9 (2014)

PeriAreion (2015)

Cities Skylines (2015)

Cities XXL (2015)

Upcoming / In Progress / Cancelled / Release Year ?

Airship Downs (Cancelled/?)

Before (In progress/?)

Boomtown (In progress/?)

CaesarIA (aka Open Caesar 3) (In progress/?)

Citybound (In progress/?)

Civitas (Cancelled/?)

Clockwork Empires (In progress/2015?)

Colonisation: Moonbase (In progress/?)

Factorio (In progress/2015?)

Grand Ages: Medieval (In progress/2015?)

Lethis: Path of Progress (In progress/2015?)

Medieval Mayor (On hold/?)

(In progress/?)

Offworld Trading Company (In progress/2015?)

Project Avalon (In progress/?)

Shackleton Crater (Cancelled/?)

Subversion City Generator (On hold/?)

Synekism (In progress/?)

Terminus (In progress/?)

The Architect (In progress/?)

The Universim (In progress/?)

The Settlers: Kingdoms of Anteria (In progress/?)

Unclaimed World (In progress/2015?)

Villages and Cities (In progress/?)

Virtucity (In progress/?)

Ymir Online (In progress/?)

[A.Burgess 2]

Well since this thread has had a post in the last month I might as well post here. I am working on a game slowly with no sight of a release or even a name however I am using sc4 the major influence.

[The Pennsylvania Turnpike 252]

I heard Tropico 5 was being announced soon

[Mr. Flibble 134]

I think Civitas is dead. The moderators of the forums on what passed for the site Quixotically defended the developers' inability to post even a couple sentences to let people know it was still being developed over the last six months since they said the "beta" would be opening soon. As of a couple weeks ago they've pulled the plug on the forum because of a lack of news.

[AkemiAzula 280]

Civitas is dead alright, the forums have vanished completely. My project Virtucity is slowly advancing with the help of a fellow GMCer. Probably the best place for new info on the project is this http://gmc.yoyogames.com/index.php?showtopic=439155 at the game maker community boards.

 

Right now I am working with another member to improve the UI and make smoother transition from topdown to dimetric perspective views in-game. 

 

I've started some basic 3d modelling which you can see in the thread. As for when the game will be finished I really couldn't say but I think if you checked the board in a year's time there would be good chance of it having advanced a great deal

[nuyokcity 22]

^See for more new games 2010-present^

New games last year 2014:
Banished (2014)
Evopollution (2014)
Tropico 5 (2014)
1849 (2014)
Spacebase DF9 (2014)


New for this year 2015?
PeriAreion (2015)
Clockwork Empires (In progress/?)
Factorio (In progress/?)
Grand Ages: Medieval (In progress/?)
The Architect (In progress/?)
The Universim (In progress/?)
The Settlers: Kingdoms of Anteria (In progress/?)
Ymir Online (In progress/?)