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'Lincity' is a simulation 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 released under the GNU General Public License with artworks dual-licensed under that and Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike 2.0 license; and DejaVu fonts included under their own liberal license.

Contents

Gameplay

History

Original Lincity game

LinCity-NG (New Graphic)

References

External links

Gameplay

The player develops his city by buying appropriate buildings, services and infrastructures. Player has to take care of population growth and various socio-economical balances.
The simulation considers population, number of jobs, foods, goods, raw material, services, energy and other constraints like finance, pollution and transports.
Various indicators are provided, like mini maps or statistics.

History

Original Lincity game

The original game. This version can be played 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 GNU/Linux, but also runs on Windows, BeOS, and OS/2, as well as a huge variety of Unix-styled systems. Mac OS X, however, is only supported when compiled from source using GCC and run using X11.app. It uses SVGALib or X11 as its graphics interface API on Unix systems, with a variety of native versions on non-Unix platforms.

LinCity-NG (New Graphic)

'LinCity-NG' is a fork of the game ''Lincity'', with 3D graphics and new sounds. However, the gameplay is identical and it can read classic 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 was The Linux Game Tome Game of The Month for January 2005^[1]

References

1. Lincity - Game of the Month for January

External links

★ ''LinCity-NG'' homepage

★ Berlios developer site

★ download

★ Old ''Lincity'' homepage