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How Do You Build a (Digital) City?
Today’s technologists are pitching a vision in which players don’t just control Sims-like characters — they become them.
27 Aug 2022, 01:51 PM IST
(Bloomberg) -- In the video game SimCity, first published in 1989, players start with a simple plot of land — digital sediment that gradually transforms into a couple of houses, grows into a suburban utopia and finally materializes as a booming virtual metropolis filled with inhabitants commonly known as “Sims.” In-game city planning challenges range from the prosaic, like collecting taxes and building an electricity grid, to out-of-...
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