City

Frame · Built spaces spatial

Density, diversity, infrastructure – a network of streets, buildings and encounters where every corner offers something different.

Design question – Your game takes place in a city. What defines the city – its diversity, its density, its anonymity? And which district is its heart?

Reference example – SimCity: districts, traffic and taxes – the city as a living system. Mini Metro: the city as a network of lines that grows denser with every station.

Associations

• Typical Activities – Navigating, Trading, Meeting, Building

Coherence

Mechanisms: Area Movement (city districts), Network (streets), Point-of-Interest, Market (the urban economy). Activities: Navigating, Trading, Meeting, Building. Ludic Organisational Structures: spatial order (districts), economic order (the city market), social order (strata).