Is there a "Sim Land"?
Posted: 2009-04-17 06:57am
I had this idea for a game, sort like SimCity, but you manage a country instead of just one city. So instead of focussing on exactly how your cities should look, you could mostly just decide where they should be (although you'd probably start out with a few towns) and then they evolve and grow on their own, depending on how well you govern stuff like infrastructure. For instance by connecting towns through roads and railways so goods and people can move between them efficiently (maybe the first towns will be connected by crappy dirt roads before you build actual roads) they will get more material and people, and will grow faster. Conversely, if the roads break down completely, the affected towns might get abandoned.
I mostly just have a few such ideas, but I'd like to know if someone has already made a game like this so I can take a look at it. Most "government simulation" games I've found seem to be just that - simulations of passing legislations and foreign policies. That's not quite what I want, nor do I want to wage war and take over the world ala Civilization and other strategy games (I don't really care if those things are "realistic" things for countries to be doing; realistic politics is mass shuffling of paper and realistic war is all your friends dying in agony). I want to build roads and nuclear power plants and national parks, and watch villages grow into huge cities thanks to my decisions.
I mostly just have a few such ideas, but I'd like to know if someone has already made a game like this so I can take a look at it. Most "government simulation" games I've found seem to be just that - simulations of passing legislations and foreign policies. That's not quite what I want, nor do I want to wage war and take over the world ala Civilization and other strategy games (I don't really care if those things are "realistic" things for countries to be doing; realistic politics is mass shuffling of paper and realistic war is all your friends dying in agony). I want to build roads and nuclear power plants and national parks, and watch villages grow into huge cities thanks to my decisions.