Extra FutureCatnip for the doomed gamer generation:
In 2010, an obsessed gamer designed the perfect game of Sim City. Achieved through a repeating pattern of clustered high rises, “Magnasanti” exposes the hellish consequences of top-down civic design. In his new documentary, John Wilson explores how New York City is creeping closer and closer to realizing this fictional metropolis.
[I’ve never wanted any single object more than this one?][link] If there is any decency left in the world this will get dumped and I will get to play it.
I can barely make words about this.
[link]: https://retronauts.com/article/526/unreleased-sim-city-nes-prototype-shown-on-the-internet “Unreleased Sim City NES prototype shown on the Internet”
[Games journalism, punk rock, and SimCity:][link]
>It seems like people—for some reason—were waiting on Polygon to call the industry out on its crap. Polygon, that Microsoft-sponsored, humourless, 70s prog rock supergroup of games journalism. Expecting any kind of populist uproar from Polygon is like expecting One Direction to vilify the X Factor culture that spawned them – they’re entirely within the system, with no interest in existing outside of it. Probably the only thing you needed to know in order to be sure that Polygon was never going to change the world of games journalism was that they could afford to make a multi-part documentary trumpeting all the ways they were going to change the world of games journalism.
Polygon pretty much pissed any credibility they had left down their leg with SimCity. They acted like PR flacks. Rock, Paper, Shotgun just did what they usually do: journalism.
[link]: http://ridiculoushuman.wordpress.com/2013/03/20/pure-folly-miss-polygon/ “Pure Folly, Miss Poly(gon) | The Ridiculous Human”
[A Reddit mega-thread on what appears to be a really broken game][link], and not just [the DRM][drm].
[link]: http://www.reddit.com/r/SimCity/comments/1a0taq/compiled_list_of_suggestions_and_bug_reports_to/ “Compiled list of suggestions and bug reports to report to Maxis for SimCity. : SimCity”
[drm]: http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2013/03/simcity-outage/ “SimCity Outrage over always-on DRM”