Game Design: Is that okay, CaiGou?

Chapter 86 Yin Mazi: Damn it, I’ve become Huang Shilang! [Seeking for further reading]

After the download of City Skylines was completed, Boss Yin immediately entered the game.

game interface.

A series of map options appear on the left.

The map appearance and resource details are on the right side.

【Sea and Island】

【Sunshine Shoal】

【Golden Beach】

【Diamond Coast】

【Lakeside City】

After thinking for a moment, Boss Yin selected the map [Golden Beach].

"Hey? Although you can't make faces in this game, you can change your name."

"My name is Yin Mazi, so this city must be called - Goose City."

When the water friends saw this, they started to make a fuss——

"Echeng? You don't want to be Yin Mazi, do you want to be Yin Qingtian?"

"I only came to Goose City to do three things: fairness, fairness, and fucking fairness!"

"Yin Mazi, butt——"

The map is loaded and the game is officially entered.

In front of Boss Yin is a plain area framed by a square dotted line. There is a river on the edge of the area. Obviously this is the initial area.

Below this area, not far away, a two-lane highway traverses the east and west of the map, but there is only one highway entrance connecting to the initial area.

Boss Yin clicked on the game system page one by one to check out various functions. After understanding almost everything, he said:

"It seems that this is our current territory! Colon should be the game currency unit!"

"Seventy thousand colones to build a city?"

"All I can say is, old thief - you are worthy of being the one!"

If Kerbal Space Program is equivalent to mathematics in terms of hard-core attributes, it doesn't mean it doesn't.

In terms of hard-core attributes, City Skylines is equivalent to the Chinese language, and you can still play it even if you don’t know how to play it.

After all, even if there is a barrier to entry for simulation and construction games, the real hardcore is in the later stages of the game.

As a host, Boss Yin has played not only 1,000 but also 800 games, so the start was not difficult for him.

Boss Yin relies on his past experience in playing simulation construction games and adheres to the principle of living within his means and never spending money.

He started - building roads!

"If you want to be rich, build roads first! This slogan is indeed the truth!"

"This game doesn't look too difficult!"

"Upstairs, be careful of the boomerang!"

In the early stage, players need to consider infrastructure construction and planning.

After all, the roads are repaired and the citizens come, so they have to have a place to live, right?

It’s not enough to have a place to live. I have to work to make money, right?

It’s not enough to have a place to work. I have to spend money to make money, right?

Hence the creation of residential, commercial, industrial and office buildings, collectively known as functional areas.

Functional districts provide the core development functions of a city.

Housing provides human resources, and the development of population size is one of the fundamental factors driving urban development.

Therefore, it is necessary to ensure the construction of residential areas and have a better environment.

Commercial, office and industrial buildings are the foundation of urban economic and industrial development.

After the functional area is built, the supporting infrastructure should also keep up.

Because supporting facilities are the underlying resource buildings that maintain the operation of the city, providing water conservancy management, power supply, and garbage disposal functions for a city.

The power building is composed of a variety of power plants. Players can choose four power generation methods: thermal power, water power, solar power, and wind power. The consumption of resources and the impact on the environment are also different.

Water conservancy buildings are urban water resources management facilities, consisting of water plants, drainage pipes, water towers, and sewage treatment.

In the later stage, there will be support buildings composed of medical and health, fire protection and police services. They are facilities to maintain the quality of life of urban residents. Only by improving the support buildings can the stability of the population be maintained in large-scale cities.

The core gameplay of the entire game Cities Skylines is actually——

Build the city, attract citizens to move in, go to work and shop, and create GDP. Earn tax revenue, continue to build the city, make it bigger and stronger, and create greater glory.

The essence is nothing more than the cycle of a pattern, recycle!

But this is the fun of construction simulation games!

That’s right!

But as the game functions are unlocked one by one, the smile on Boss Yin's face becomes less and less.

After all, he had never seen such complex functional breakdown in a construction simulation game.

This game is like giving players a blank piece of paper to draw on, and anyone can paint two strokes on it.

As for whether this painting is good-looking or not, and whether it is worth the money, everyone has their own opinion.

But in the game, there is a mechanism that can judge whether the player's "painting" is excellent!

That is - citizen satisfaction!

When citizens' needs are met, and they have enough jobs and places to spend their money, they will be happy and pay more taxes.

At the same time, citizen satisfaction will allow players to upgrade their buildings faster, allowing more citizens to flow into the city, allowing the city to develop better.

Similarly, low satisfaction will make citizens very dissatisfied, and the population will decrease, jobs, etc. will be cut.

Satisfaction will increase due to the improvement of various surrounding facilities. Players can build enough parks, playgrounds, and unique buildings to improve the happiness of citizens.

Parks and unique structures increase nearby land values, generate revenue, and make land-owning citizens more satisfied.

This is almost the same city construction mechanism as reality, coupled with a group of unscrupulous people who are very annoying.

What is called--

I can't build a railway near your home, but I have to make it possible for you to take the train as soon as you leave home?

What is called--

When I install wind power, you find it noisy, and when I install thermal power, you find it smelly, but you can’t stand my lack of electricity and frequent blackouts?

The most annoying thing is——

In order to prevent traffic jams, Boss Yin planned eight expressways.

As a result, there is still a traffic jam in Goose City!

Because these unscrupulous people are all crowded together on a highway, it’s no wonder there’s no traffic jam!

Boss Yin is busy acting as a fire captain in the city. He just goes wherever there is trouble!

This group of unscrupulous people will directly make Boss Yin tired!

When the water friends in the live broadcast room saw this, they laughed and said——

"Yin Mazi, are you numb?"

"No, these unscrupulous people are worse than Huang Silang!"

"You know nothing about hardcore!"

"Yin Mazi: These unscrupulous people are playing the role of me!"

Before Boss Yin could refute, another citizen's mood level turned red.

Boss Yin could only continue to act as a fire-fighting captain, but accidentally demolished someone's house.

"Did you do it on purpose or accidentally?"

"Isn't this a forced demolition?"

"They are just like bandits, worse than bandits!"

But who would have thought that after the homeless citizens left the city with cursing expressions on their heads, a new citizen would move in the next day.

The most amazing thing is... Goosecheng did not suffer any financial losses.

In the live broadcast room, the barrage scrolled wildly.

"???"

"Okay! Okay! Citizens are just consumables, right?"

"Isn't it too real?"

"Can this game still be played like this?"

Boss Yin was ecstatic when he saw this, as if he had discovered a new world.

"How can this game be played without being human? I like it!"

After this battle, Yin Boss completely embarked on the path of abstraction.

“I declare that I will be born as a member of the Reformist Party and die as a member of the Reformist Party!”

"Wait!" Boss Yin suddenly stopped laughing and clapped his hands:

"It's broken! I've become Huang Shiro?!"

(End of this chapter)