This is a simulation game in which players create and expand fictional cities by managing resources and keeping their population content.

SimCity is a city-building and urban planning simulation massively multiplayer online game developed by Maxis Emeryville and published by Electronic Arts.

As explained by SimCity's creative director Ocean Quigley, the game suffered from a clash in vision between the game developers at Maxis and publisher EA - Maxis wanted to create a first full-3D SimCity focusing on graphical improvements, while EA wanted the game to be an ever-developing platform with a strong focus on ...

So Wright would team up with his friend Jeff Braun who had founded Maxis Software in 1987. They would release SimCity in 1989 for Mac and Amiga and once it had been ported, for the Atari ST, DOS-based PCs, and the ZX Spectrum. Brøderbund did eventually agree to distribute it as it matured.

The core concept of SimCity is to build and design a city without specific goals to achieve. The player may divide land into commercial, industrial, or residential zones, add buildings, change the tax rate, build a power grid, build transportation systems and take any other actions to enhance the city.

In SimCity the basic goal is to build a city. It sounds simple enough but can be quite challenging. For instance, if you construct industrial zones near houses the citizens get angry, some will move out. You have to fulfill the citizens needs to keep them satisfied.

city-building video game SimCity is an open-ended city-building video game franchise originally designed by Will Wright.

Will Wright SimCity, city creation and management simulation game designed and produced in 1989 by American game designer Will Wright and electronic game developer Maxis (now a division of Electronic Arts [EA]).

The Sims is a series of life simulation video games developed by Maxis and published by Electronic Arts. The franchise has sold nearly 200 million copies worldwide, and it is one of the best-selling video game series of all time.

Here is a small selection of specific things that SimCity can teach young players.

• Supply and demand.
• Budgeting.
• Urban planning.
• Managing the environment.
• Designing transport systems.
• Understanding utilities and services.
• Reading skills.
• Maths skills.

A simulation game attempts to copy various activities from real life in the form of a game for various purposes such as training, analysis, prediction, or entertainment. Usually there are no strictly defined goals in the game, and the player is allowed to control a character or environment freely.