A city-building game in which the city would prefer you didn't

Took me back to sim farm. The aesthetics are awesome

It does have the blue angels flying over the city at one point

Showed up, saw Claude was there, didn't feel like sticking around. My guess is it's a game mocking the influence of techbro money in San Francisco and how it's changed the community there, made by a tool that the techbros are now massively pushing, much to the dislike of the global community (environmental cost, etc). If so, how ironic.

"Trigger warning", old fart rant: As someone who downloaded, over 28.8K modem, a version of the Jargon File (1) as a plain text file (2) to read during a school vacation, in the "good old days" of my imagination Silicon Valley was a lot cooler for hackers. But people noticed it was a place to make money, and all the money-hungry MBAs showed up, and now the whole industry has a stench to it..

(1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jargon_File (2) https://jargon-file.org/archive/jargon-4.4.7.dos.txt

I imagined something more like a sim city clone where every time you try to put down a building or zone, it’s refused with a pop up message saying why. Let me prompt that out brb

Line at the end of the in-game "rulebook":

> Every rule, vote count and case in this game is drawn from the public record. Sources are in docs/research/ in the project folder. Neighborhood politics scores and the economics are simplified for play.

Nice, I'm happy to hear that, Claude. This kind of silly game is supposed to help you understand a complex issue in a fun way. But this is missing the plot entirely. Why is this so overwhelmingly complex? Why would I spend time learning this ugly, convoluted and verbose UI? Who is this for??

EDIT: I'll link to an example of what I think this game should have been: https://research.wmz.ninja/projects/phd/index.html

A game made with intent, that is easy to pick up, respects its player's time, and makes its point effectively.

You know, if an old city with a natural boundary doesn’t think you should build a bunch of profitable crap in it, maybe you could take the hint and stop acting like you’re bringing Jesus to them. San Francisco’s seen the conquistadors. In fact, many of the streets in the Sunset are named after them.