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by kotcity 3013 days ago
I am aware of it... we have somewhat divergent goals. I seek more of a re-creation of "SC4-style" city simulator, without agents for all traffic and so on. I think the big difference between this game and Citybound is that I'm trying for more of a statistical / stochastic approach vs. an agent based approach. I think the agent-based approach was one of the factors that led to SimCity 2013 not being that fun.

Citybound is aiming more for the Cities: Skylines approach to traffic and simulation.

I'm a big city-builder fan and have tried almost every one I can get my hands on. Among myself and some others, there is the feeling that the SimCity series peaked at SimCity 4 and I'm hoping to recapture that feel. It seems that Citybound is going in a totally different direction, which is fine, but that's not the aim of this project.

I hope to play Citybound when it is released but I do not think this project is redundant.
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crowbahr 3013 days ago
I dig it. What are you guys looking for in dev involvement? How casual can I be and still potentially contribute? I'm an Android dev who has been looking at sinking his teeth into kotlin for a bit now.
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kotcity 3013 days ago
As casual as you want... this is a side project for all of us. One of our other guys is an Android dev just using this for Kotlin practice. Drop on in, check out our code, suggest ideas, whatever tickles your fancy!

If you want stop by our dev chat channel on https://gitter.im/kotcity/Lobby and ask us questions or reply here if that works best.

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Bombthecat 3013 days ago
Well,

Why not a modular approach then?

Make the "Backend" switchable.

I could image that we would see many different and interesting approaches!

PS: kotcity ist kinda a bad name, kot in German means excrement... So, basically shit city ;)

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meddlepal 3013 days ago
I agree with your theory that the agent-approach is flawed. I know Kotlin and I love the classic SimCity games so I'm gonna try and give the codebase a poke later.
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kotcity 3012 days ago
Awesome! We have a good start but still need a lot of subsystems implemented. If you have an interest in SimCity stop on by our gitter channel and we can talk: https://gitter.im/kotcity/Lobby
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