Lincity is afree and open-sourceconstruction and management simulation game, which puts the player in control of managing a city's socio-economy, similar in concept toSimCity.[1] The player can develop a city by buying appropriate buildings, services and infrastructure. Its name is both aLinux reference and aplay on the title of the originalcity-building game,SimCity, and it was released under theGNU General Public License v2.
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| Original author(s) | I. J. Peters |
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| Initial release | 1995 (30 years ago) (1995) |
| Stable release | 1.12.1 / 14 August 2004 (20 years ago) (2004-08-14) |
| Platform | Cross-platform |
| Successor | LinCity-NG |
| Type | Single-playerCity-building |
| License | GPLv2 |
| Website | lincity |
Gameplay
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Lincity features complex2D andtop-down gameplay.
The simulation considers population, employment, basic water management and ecology, goods (availability and production), raw materials (ore, steel, coal), services (education, health, fire protection, leisures), energy (electricity and charcoal, coal with finite reserves, solar and wind power) and other constraints such as finance, pollution and transports. The player has to take care of population growth and varioussocio-economic balances.
Lincity can be won in two ways: reachingsustainable development, or evacuating the entire population withspacecraft. TheLincity homepage has aHall of Fame, listing players who have succeeded in one of these two goals.[1]
History
editLincity was created around 1995 asSimCityclone forLinux by I. J. Peters and hosted onSourceForge in 2001.[2]Lincity was originally designed forLinux, but wasported later toMicrosoft Windows,BeOS,OS/2,AmigaOS 4, and other operating systems.Mac OS X is supported when compiled fromsource code usingGCC and run usingX11.app. It usesSVGALib orX11 as its graphics interfaceAPI on Unix systems. AsLincity doessoftware rendering it requires no3D graphics card and also has very low demands on other computing resources, e.g. muchmemory or a fastprocessor. Since1999 there have been only minor changes toLincity; the last update was in August 2004.
Critical reception
editIn 2000, aCNN article on Linux games highlightedLincity's sophistication.[1]It wasThe Linux Game Tome Game of The Month for January 2005.[3]Lincity was 2008 a featuredfreeware title on1up.com.[4]The Washington Post featuredLincity in 2009.[5]
Successor
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| Stable release | 2.11.1 / 19 July 2024 (8 months ago) (2024-07-19) |
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| License | GPLv2 |
| Website | https://github.com/lincity-ng/lincity-ng/ |
In 2005 significant development continued with theforkLinCity-NG[6], which was later transferred toGoogle Code[7] and then toGitHub.[8]Lincity-NG usesSDL2 andOpenGL, and features anisometric view,[9] based onSimCity 3000, and graphics which resembleSimCity 3000's.
See also
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References
edit- ^abcBarr, Joe (21 July 2000)."Procrastinate with these Linux games".CNN. Archived fromthe original on 22 October 2012. Retrieved21 January 2015.
- ^Lincity, atSourceForge
- ^"Lincity - Game of the Month for January".The Linux Game Tome. 2005-01-05. Archived from the original on 2007-09-27. Retrieved2007-08-30.
- ^101 Free Games 2008 - Another round of the best games money can't buy.Archived 2011-09-13 at theWayback Machine on1up.com (2008)
- ^Harac, Ian (21 July 2009)."Freebie LinCity-NG Builds on the Classic City Sims".The Washington Post. Retrieved30 December 2020.
- ^Mielewczik, Michael (2007). "Rückkehr der Klassiker. Remakes von Colonization und SimCity".PC Magazin LINUX (in German). 3/2007:75–76.
- ^Lincity-NG, atGoogle Code
- ^lincity-ng on github.com
- ^Mielewczik, Michael (2007). "Rückkehr der Klassiker. Remakes von Colonization und SimCity".PC Magazin LINUX (in German). 3/2007:75–76.
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