{
  "id": 10678490,
  "title": "\"A quite beautiful compromise\": The LEGO Skylines devs did consider brick by brick building, but decided it was too much fuss for players",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/29/a-quite-beautiful-compromise-the-lego-skylines-devs-did-consider",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-09-29T11:06:25.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Rock Paper Shotgun",
    "slug": "rock-paper-shotgun",
    "url": "https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/a-quite-beautiful-compromise-the-lego-skylines-devs-did-consider-brick-by-brick-building-but-decided-it-was-too-much-fuss-for-players"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "LEGO Skylines is the new plastic city- builder from Cities: Skylines 2 and Surviving the Aftermath developers Iceflake Studios, published by Paradox Interactive. I've played an hour or so of a preview build, just long enough to devise a circular highway of coffee shops, glass-fronted houses, unaccountably cheerful farms, and playgrounds poking up haphazardly like fungus. Kind of like the M25, but…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}