r/SimCity

Rather than being a planned city, it was developed in the 1950s as a literal land sale scheme marketed towards out of state buyers that wanted cheap waterfront access with over 400 miles of man-made canals. This resulted in an endless suburban hellscape that is unwalkable, unsustainable, and extremely car-dependent. Its design leads to severe traffic, environmental degradation, high vulnerability to flooding / storm surges, lack of local amenities, and high property insurance costs.

I first got SC2K in 1995, it was my first ever PC game. I begged my parents to get me a PC just so I could play this game. Unfortunately, I was 7 years old and could not figure out how to play it properly. I would just use cheats and mess around.

After 30 years of not understanding how to play the game properly, I finally sat down yesterday and figured it out.

My city has no planning, I was just figuring it out on the fly, so it's sort of chaotic. I somehow managed to keep mostly everyone happy, though. The only real zoning plan I stuck to was keeping all my industrial around the perimeter and keeping pollution as low as possible.

I tried to avoid doing terraforming and just decided to work with the map I was given. It might not look very pretty, but it's functional and profitable.

It felt real good plopping down those arcologies without using cheats. I am not really sure how to improve this map and building every arco felt like enough of a "win" condition for me to be satisfied. Even at 1% tax rates, the city is still making profit.

It's like a big gamer weight has finally been lifted off my shoulders after 30 years.

While making GlagStone, I kept coming back to late-80s Macintosh aesthetics: monochrome screens, tiny windows, dense menus, and early city builders.

I wanted the game to feel like building a whole island inside an old black-and-white computer, but with a darker story and modern city-building systems.

I’m still working on the gameplay and atmosphere, but this is the mood I’m trying to capture.

As the title suggests! with a added comparison shot.

Hope you enjoy! :)

The last city in this region was planned to be high density low wealth, and the large oil field in the middle of it makes it even more unique. You can see the other cities at a distance.

Pretty proud of the whole region and how it turned out.

Tried to install SimCity 2000 on my more modern PC. I can not play it, except for the Urban Renewal Kit. You can see the multiple screen shots of what the options are.

I download the sc2kfix patch, which says to place the winmm.dll file into the same folder with the .exe I did that, but it did not do me any good.

It is now telling me to select the game from the Windows 95 Start Menu. How am I supposed to do that? I do not have a Windows 95 computer. I apologize for the poor quality pictures. Thank you.

first time I played a game like this unless a hour on theotown counts

my Jazz / Bossa / AOR arrangement of “Village” from SimCity (SNES).

Soft grooves, nostalgic harmonies, and a slightly late-80s fusion feel — inspired by the quiet atmosphere of building a small city.

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I thought it was playing through Origin, since Origin became EA Play. Also tried playing off-line, and the message still came up.