Honestly, I'm not much of a building sim player these day! I love videogames but they're so complicated and take so much time, right? Seems like City Skylines is the heir, right? Or maybe it's Minecraft and Tiny Glade? I think that SimCity and Maxis can be seen as helping establish the whole world of open-ended creative sandbox games that have since proven to be dominant. A big takeaway from this book for me, looking at the history of videogames and computing, is that the medium of videogames is really about creativity and making games. (Look at the top-selling games of all time.)
Honestly, I'm not much of a building sim player these day! I love videogames but they're so complicated and take so much time, right? Seems like City Skylines is the heir, right? Or maybe it's Minecraft and Tiny Glade? I think that SimCity and Maxis can be seen as helping establish the whole world of open-ended creative sandbox games that have since proven to be dominant. A big takeaway from this book for me, looking at the history of videogames and computing, is that the medium of videogames is really about creativity and making games. (Look at the top-selling games of all time.)