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Has there ever been a study of the gamification of city building? Or rather the results thereof? E.g. give a simulator the current population and layout of NYC

Has there ever been a study of the gamification of city building? Or rather the results thereof? E.g. give a simulator the current population and layout of NYC with the current influx of people with a budget and see what the results are? It would be fascinating to see people try and "beat" the high scores on different cities (i.e. Austin would be an easy level, Boston harder, and NYC the hardest level, etc.). Then we could collate what worked and what didn't without dumb projects like the Mopac Expressway. Either way I'd play that game.

crazystar 8y ago
Checkout: http://cityboundsim.com/devblog http://cityboundsim.com/devblog
bertr4nd 8y ago
> dumb projects like Mopac OT, but, er, what's wrong with Mopac? I didn't really have any problems with it while I lived in Austin, but it's been quite a while now.
- CamTin 8y ago
  They've spent the past several years on a massively expensive project to add ONE lane of traffic in each direction, rather than a high-volume mass transit artery like it needs.
  - kaennar 8y ago
    And it doesn't even work! I took the toll a few months ago because I needed to head North for a meeting, but the thing was moving slower than actual traffic from all the people merging/leaving it. The construction lobby strikes again I guess...
- v64 8y ago
  This article[1] summarizes the recent problems. [1] https://www.austinchronicle.com/news/2017-08-04/mopac-and-the-expensive-mess-that-never-ends/ https://www.austinchronicle.com/news/2017-08-04/mopac-and-th...
kalleboo 8y ago
Not for cities, but in the same vein of a more real-world sim, SimHealth was developed in 1994 to debate the Clinton's healthcare plan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SimHealth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SimHealth
contingencies 8y ago
Mini Metro is quite interesting. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mini_Metro_(video_game) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mini_Metro_(video_game)

crazystar 8y ago

Checkout: http://cityboundsim.com/devblog http://cityboundsim.com/devblog

bertr4nd 8y ago

> dumb projects like Mopac OT, but, er, what's wrong with Mopac? I didn't really have any problems with it while I lived in Austin, but it's been quite a while now.

CamTin 8y ago
They've spent the past several years on a massively expensive project to add ONE lane of traffic in each direction, rather than a high-volume mass transit artery like it needs.
- kaennar 8y ago
  And it doesn't even work! I took the toll a few months ago because I needed to head North for a meeting, but the thing was moving slower than actual traffic from all the people merging/leaving it. The construction lobby strikes again I guess...
v64 8y ago
This article[1] summarizes the recent problems. [1] https://www.austinchronicle.com/news/2017-08-04/mopac-and-the-expensive-mess-that-never-ends/ https://www.austinchronicle.com/news/2017-08-04/mopac-and-th...

kalleboo 8y ago

Not for cities, but in the same vein of a more real-world sim, SimHealth was developed in 1994 to debate the Clinton's healthcare plan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SimHealth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SimHealth

contingencies 8y ago

Mini Metro is quite interesting. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mini_Metro_(video_game) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mini_Metro_(video_game)