Citybound City-builder Is Nearing Having Actual Game-play

Citybound is an interesting sounding city-builder current in the early road towards an alpha version. We reported on it first a few weeks ago with an introduction, now it looks like it almost has some game-play.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVMV6Z0mtfg

What has been worked on?

QuoteDecided that Citybound will have both statistical and agent-based simulation
Started with the statistical simulation for planning and demand modeling:
Created a Resource Management System
Manges resources (duh) for the whole city & individual businesses/households
Calculates resource demands
Implemented City Dynamics
Immigration based on Resource Demands
Created a Construction Planner
Creates buildings if needed
Distributes households and businesses over existing buildings
Created a Building Type System
Allows for all kinds of household & business combinations in one building
Added global Simulation Parameters
Influence the gameplay heavily
Easy to tweak
I spent a lot of time finding an initial balance for them
What I will probably do next

Connect the statistical model to the traffic simulation
This will result in the agent-based part of the simulation

The game will be interesting due to Linux really not having anything close to SimCity, we do have a few open-source games that are a bit like it, but nothing modern.

It will fully supported Linux of course and is built to be fully cross-platform using JavaScript and WebGL.

Can't wait to see it grow. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.