I am truly in awe.<p>It routinely amazes me the lengths to which many people go to in their chosen domain. Some people choose physics, or medicine. Some people choose Rubiks cubes, train sets, or Sim City.<p>I find it hard in my day to day life to decide I will work on something for three years to truly and utterly dominate it. Especially something such as Sim City. I would say that I wish this gentleman had worked on curing cancer, or rubinius, or financial modeling, but I am beginning to think that that level of passion is non-transferable, and not something that can be taught or imbued.<p>Of course, this guy is an architecture major, so maybe we will see that same level of skill, dedication, and attention to detail come out in the real world.
The city reminds me of the Caves of Steel from Isaac Asimov. There are no roads in Magnasanti, only hyper efficient subways. The population density is extreme, nearly seven million people piled into such a small area, every building is like a sky scraper from Manhattan. And did anybody else notice how every building is a historical landmark? All utilities are shipped in from neighbors.<p>This city is precariously hanging on the edge of destruction. I feel something as simple as a Sim moving to a dinner on the other side of town could upset the careful balance of food supply, but yet the city is 'perfect'.<p>And that is exactly what the game creator wanted. :D
Interesting article, if a little heavy in possible-subtext, and I loved the video from the very first time I saw it.<p>Favorite quote by the creator:<p><i>As for The Sims, I enjoyed that too, although sims usually turn insane and die horribly under my hands after a few minutes.</i><p>Dx xD
Can someone please invent a game where people like this can play obsessively, and yet the results are useful?<p>Can we invent a game, say, where (even if the participants don't realise it) what they produce is a hyper-dense, hyper-efficient CPU? Or RAM? Or parallel architecture?
He is not a "totalitarian Buddhist". The fact the he borrowed the concept of Buddhist Wheel of life doesn't make him "totalitarian". The topic is misleading,inconsiderate, ignorant and offensive.
I'm confused. Why are macros cheating? A 'hack' that simply saves you time sitting at the keyboard doesn't seem like a cheat, it seems like a wise life-choice. Unless there is a time/skill factor to Sim City. Is there?
Reminds me of the interesting ways the SNES Sim City has been exploited:
<a href="http://incise.org/advanced-sim-city-strategies.html" rel="nofollow">http://incise.org/advanced-sim-city-strategies.html</a>
OT, perhaps, but I didn't like the subliminal messaging/subliminal effects in the video, which were totally unnecessary.<p>Did anyone else notice them?