OpenCity
OpenCity is a discontinued 3D city-building game started in 2003 by France-based Vietnamese programmer Duong-Khang Nguyen. The game mechanics are similar to SimCity, although the game developers do not strive to make it a direct SimCity video game clone. It is free and open-source software which is licensed with the GNU General Public License version 2 (GPLv2).
OpenCity
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- 2009
- Genre
- city-building game
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OpenCity is a discontinued 3D city-building game started in 2003 by France-based Vietnamese programmer Duong-Khang Nguyen. The game mechanics are similar to SimCity, although the game developers do not strive to make it a direct SimCity video game clone. It is free and open-source software which is licensed with the GNU General Public License version 2 (GPLv2).
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• Title — OpenCity • Developer — Duong-Khang Nguyen • Programming Language — C++: SDL, OpenGL • Platform — Cross-platform • Discontinued — yes • Latest Release Version — 0.0.6.5 • License — GPLv2 • Genre — Single-player city-building • Website — www.opencity.info
Gameplay
Gameplay
In the game, the player builds a city by marking land as commercial, industrial or residential zones. Those zones depend on each other to grow. The player also must supply the city with power and connect the different zones by building roads.
Origins, development
Origins, development
OpenCity is the product of programmer Duong-Khang Nguyen and 3D artist Frédéric Rodrigo. Nguyen was inspired by the open source game FreeReign; when he realized that the FreeReign project was cancelled and the source code was not in condition to be improved, he began developing his own city-building simulator. The work on the project began in 2003 with the registration on SourceForge. Contributions to the game came from the game's community in form of translation and quality testing. OpenCity is built on cross platform libraries and application programming interfaces (APIs) like Simple DirectMedia Library and OpenGL, which allows porting to various operating systems (OSes) and platforms, like Windows, macOS, and many Linux distributions.
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2009
OpenCity published.
2009
OpenCity is recorded as published in 2009.
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Reception
OpenCity achieved a broad spread as free and open-source and freeware video game, and was downloaded directly from SourceForge between 2003 and May 2017 over 190,000 times according to the SF download statistic. OpenCity has also been packaged for many Linux distributions: Fedora Linux, Debian, SuSE, Slackware, Ubuntu, Pardus, Frugalware Linux. OpenCity was reviewed as "well made 3D remake" of SimCity by Chip.de in 2013.
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Literature
Il progetto OPENCiTy: Banca Dati, GIS e WebGIS, edited by Daniele Malfitana, Antonino Mazzaglia, and Giuseppe Cacciaguerra, American Journal of Archaeology, 2017.
Oliot-OpenCity: Open Standard Interoperable Smart City Platform, 2018 IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2), 2018
An Open Architecture Testbed for Smart Cities, 2021 IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2), 2021
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- 1.copying on sourceforge.net/p/opencity
- 2.Open City 0.0.6.1 on Softpedia (archived, June 2009)
- 3.opencity on sourceforge.net
- 4.Credits on the OpenCity website
- 5.OpenCity 0.0.6 on Macshareware.com (August 24, 2013)
- 6.OpenCity on computerbild.de (May 2017)
- 7.opencity - stats on sourceforge.net (May 2017)
- 8.Package: opencity on rpms.remirepo.net
- 9.opencity on packages.debian.org
- 10.OpenCity on apps.ubuntu.com
- 11.OpenCity 0.0.6.2 on Chip.de "OpenCity ist ein liebevoll gemachtes 3D-Remake des Spiele-Klassikers SimCity aus dem Jahre 1989." (in German, March 5, 2013)
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