Lego Skylines' devs want your city's problems to be visible without digging into a stats screen, which means finding a "family friendly" version of showing homelessness
As pretty as Cities: Skylines is, getting a read on your city's problems can take some digging. While traffic jams are immediately visible, prompting you to start reorganising the layout of your streets and bypasses, other issues only make themselves known when you switch on overlays or bring up a stats screen. Changing that is one developer Iceflake Studios aims for colourful plastic brick-based…
Lego Skylines, a forthcoming spinoff of Cities: Skylines, aims to make visible the problems of a city without the need for digging into statistics or information screens. Game director Lasse Liljedahl emphasizes that any issue that requires attention should be immediately apparent in the world, rather than requiring the user to switch on overlays or bring up a stats screen.
This family-friendly approach to gameplay seeks to present homelessness and other city-related issues in a visually accessible manner, making it easier for players to understand and manage their virtual metropolis.
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