Lincity
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| Genre(s) | City-building |
| Mode(s) | Single player |
| Platform(s) | Cross-platform |
| Input | Keyboard and Mouse |
Lincity is a Sim game which puts the player in control of managing every aspect of a city's socio-economy. A unique feature is a choice between two ways for winning:
- reach sustainable development.
- evacuate all the population with spaceships.
It is a free software, released under the GPL license with artworks under Creative_commons.
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[edit] Gameplay
You develop your city by buying appropriate buildings, services and infrastructures. You have to take care of population growth and various socio-economical balances. The simulation considers population, number of jobs, foods, goods, raw material, services and other constraints like finance, pollution and transports.
Various indicators are provided, like mini maps or statistics.
[edit] History
[edit] Original Lincity game
The original game. This version is nice to play on old computers, without 3d capacity, low memory and slow processor. It features complex, 2D, top-down gameplay. It was last updated in August 2004, although any changes since circa 1999 have been minor.
Lincity was originally designed for Linux, but also runs on Microsoft Windows, BeOS, and OS/2, as well as a huge variety of Unix-styled systems. It uses SVGALib or X11 as its graphics interface API on Unix systems, with a variety of native versions on non-Unix platforms.
[edit] LinCity-NG (New Graphic)
It is a fork of the game Lincity, with 3D graphics and new sounds. However, the gameplay is identical and it can read lincity save files. It is still in active development in 2007 (new translations, bugfixes and small improvements).
It uses SDL and OpenGL, and has isometric view.
It again runs on Linux as its primary platform, with Windows, BeOS, and Unix systems also supported. Mac OS X, however, is only supported when compiled from source using GCC and run using X11.
