History of City Planning Games

Screenshot from original SimCity game on Commodore 651 – illustration from ArsTechnica article.

Richard Moss has written an excellent history of city planning (building) games in Ars Technica. It’s great to see how city planning games have evolved and some of the ideas developers have implemented over the years. Lots of lessons for taking city games further. Full article: “From SimCity to, Well, SimCity: The History of City-Building Games”