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Ocean: 'Yeah! Now that it’s a full 3D city, with a user-controlled camera, you can fly down to street level and explore. 'We’ve had to make a graphics engine that’s geared to those requirements, rather than one that’s geared to delivering a FPS experience.īlown away: Like the original, tornadoes will do some serious damageĪre there other views available other than the traditional birds-eye view? If you tried to render those in a generic engine, your machine would come to a smoking halt. 'SimCity, by contrast, has tens of thousands of things that are active in the scene, if you add up all of the cars, buildings, Sims, trees, dynamic lights, etc. With GlassBox, we’re embedding behavior into each building and vehicle, and letting the large scale activity of the city emerge out of their interactions. It’s what drives the behavior of the game. 'It’s called GlassBox, and it’s what brings the city to life. Andrew Willmott, who was a lead engineer on SimCity 4, built our custom simulation engine. Ocean: 'There are two engines at work in the new SimCity. What engine does the game use, and why did you use it? And don’t place sewage outflows or industrial areas near them, or you’ll sicken your population.' 'You have to keep an eye on your water sources they might dry up in the summer. Rainclouds will drift by and water the landscape. There are seasons, but they’re mild – trees change color and lose their leaves in winter, summers are dry and winters are wet. Ocean: 'It’s based in a temperate, Mediterranean climate. Where is the game based - and environment-wise, what can we expect? And that’s what’s actually happening – it’s not just a visualisation of what’s going on, the simulation is built out of all of those individual activities.' 'You’ll see individual Sims walk from home to work, or go and rob businesses, or lose their house and go live in the park. Now they’re handled on an individual by individual basis. 'Previously, things like crime, homelessness, employment, sickness and the like were modelled abstractly and statistically. Ocean: 'Buildings, roads and infrastructure are still hugely important, but we’ve added much more specificity to the human aspect. Can we expect to see a more human component - dealing with politics /crime etc? There was a huge focus on building in the original, without, say, zooming in on the intricacies of what makes a city 'tick'. Out of this world: There are even aliens that will start to beam-up your city's inhabitants 'Then we decided we’d allow players to build road networks that weren’t constrained to a grid. 'Then we decided to make it multiplayer, so that cities could differentiate, and take on specialised roles in the context of the region. 'That let us deepen the simulation tremendously, and it lets us build out all of the relationships between the different components of a city with much more fidelity. 'The first and most fundamental change was to completely change our simulation approach – rather than doing a checkerboard style, grid-based statistical simulation we built a new agent & object based simulation engine.
Nobody was excited about rehashing SimCity 4, so we changed some core assumptions and worked out the consequences of them. 'I wanted to give you the means to create a city that’s visually spectacular, that you can explore and experience from any perspective, and that surprises you with the things that it does.'īeing such a classic, how have you managed to evolve the game without annoying the hardcore fans? City in ruins: A meteor strike is just one of the dangers facing your creation
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