The story starts with Will Wright, who came up with the idea for a city-building game after he discovered how fun it was just building the levels in his first video game, Raid on Bungeling Bay. In the video above, I unboxed the secret ideology hiding in the formula that built SimCity, and how that’s reflected in one of the most popular gaming series of all time. But any simulation is only as good as the model it’s built on, and the model underpinning SimCity has quite the history. On the surface, they appear to be exactly what they say: a simulation of a city. The kind of game your non-gaming uncle has probably spent hundreds of hours in.
The kind of game that appears in school curriculums. City simulators like SimCity are serious games - the kind that gets coverage well beyond the video game press.
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