Comments on: Cityscape puzzle game (Flash)

Cityscape puzzle game (Flash)

Melinika — Fri, 10 Mar 2006 07:10:02 -0800

Cityscape. (Flash game) Build a city with 18 available components. The order in which those components are employed determines how they'll interact and how far the city will develop. There's one correct order that will score the full amount of points. (via)

By: Melinika

Melinika — Fri, 10 Mar 2006 07:10:24 -0800

Similar to the Grow games (also Flash, have been previously posted on MeFi).

By: craven_morhead

craven_morhead — Fri, 10 Mar 2006 07:32:16 -0800

I feel like the logic should be slightly less subtle in these sorts of games, i.e. why the hell should building an amusment park boost my military base? bah

By: joegester

joegester — Fri, 10 Mar 2006 07:33:11 -0800

I hate these games. They are so not fun.

By: empath

empath — Fri, 10 Mar 2006 07:34:40 -0800

It's Grow with all the frustration and none of the fun.

By: brain_drain

brain_drain — Fri, 10 Mar 2006 07:38:39 -0800

I like the idea, but the execution is weak. A pale imitation of Grow.

By: illovich

illovich — Fri, 10 Mar 2006 08:00:00 -0800

What's frustrating about the game is that the simulation is in direct opposition to what it is supposed to be simulating. A city with a single optimal growth strategy? Not to mention no flexibility as to where anything goes? Next!

By: signal

signal — Fri, 10 Mar 2006 08:07:47 -0800

Boring, inane and arbitrary. It's not a game or simulation, just randomly clicking on things trying to guess the designer's intent.

By: timory

timory — Fri, 10 Mar 2006 08:10:37 -0800

like grow, and really REALLY ripping off sim city - even the music.

By: Alvy Ampersand

Alvy Ampersand — Fri, 10 Mar 2006 08:29:03 -0800

Curses, I think building the church last hurt me! Ampersand City: Faithless Failure.

By: jrb223

jrb223 — Fri, 10 Mar 2006 08:45:51 -0800

yeah i agree. At least with grow there's some kind of visual reward. Here I just feel the guilt of having doomed my imaginary citizens to years of toil and obscurity. I mean, even the amusent park is vaguely reminiscent of a prison camp.

By: Mayor Curley

Mayor Curley — Fri, 10 Mar 2006 08:58:59 -0800

"Congratulations Mayor Gaylord, Fagville is a City!"

By: ori

ori — Fri, 10 Mar 2006 09:01:37 -0800

Solution here (scroll down.)

By: JeffK

JeffK — Fri, 10 Mar 2006 09:16:11 -0800

"Congratulations Mayor K, Alphaville is a Crappy New-Wave Band!"

By: kingfisher, his musclebound cat

kingfisher, his musclebound cat — Fri, 10 Mar 2006 09:56:15 -0800

Somewhere a procedurally coded Will Wright corpse is spinning in its asynchronously shared grave.

By: musicinmybrain

musicinmybrain — Fri, 10 Mar 2006 11:34:10 -0800

It's quite shiny... why does the gameplay have to stink? I mean, just randomly trying stuff isn't actually entertaining when there's apparently no underlying pattern to discover.

By: musicinmybrain

musicinmybrain — Fri, 10 Mar 2006 11:44:04 -0800

...apparently no underlying pattern to discover. (excluding one that doesn't really make sense :-P ) Fun for those with a lot more patience, I suppose.

By: Pollomacho

Pollomacho — Fri, 10 Mar 2006 12:23:23 -0800

I was hoping there would be more logic to it and maybe a lesson about smart growth. Fun for a bit anyway!

By: DenOfSizer

DenOfSizer — Fri, 10 Mar 2006 14:01:16 -0800

That totally put me in the mood for a month-long round of Civ.

By: trishthedish

trishthedish — Fri, 10 Mar 2006 19:00:22 -0800

what a letdown. i was really hooked on Grow until i figured them all out and now id like similiar games and so far nothing compares.

By: Artw

Artw — Fri, 10 Mar 2006 19:53:42 -0800

This sucks. Has anyone done any grow type games that don't suck?

By: Artw

Artw — Fri, 10 Mar 2006 20:12:31 -0800

Clue for anyone still working on it: The build order is completely arbitary, and after explorers and surveys has absolutely nothing to do with the order you'd actually expect, and visual clues like the roads joining up mean nothing.

By: hellhammer

hellhammer — Sat, 11 Mar 2006 16:14:40 -0800

So this funny thing happened during one of my attempts: Selecting tourism resulted in a 'level up' for the Army Base.