sathyamvellal / divercity

a city simulation game. Forked from micropolis (the simcity classic opensource version) and implemented numerous new improvements eg. more realistic traffic/new pathfinding, new buildings, technology research and more.

Divercity

Divercity is an extension of MicropolisJ which is Micropolis for the Java platform, which implements several new features and improvements over the original MicropolisJ. It was developed during a three-week programming course in 2014 at Freie Universitaet Berlin by Arne Roland, Benjamin Kretz, Estela Gretenkord i Berenguer, Fabian Mett, Marvin Becker, Tom Brewe, Tony Schwedek, Ullika Scholz, Vanessa Schreck. (also see last two sections on this readme for author statements of the predecessor versions)

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How to Run This Program

First of all, you must have Java (version 7 or better) installed on your computer. You can get Java at http://java.com/download.

Next, simply double-click the enclosed micropolisj.jar file to run the program.

QUICK DOWNLOAD, COMPILE and RUN

to get the dev branch: run this command in commandline in your favorite directory: git clone [email protected]:Team--Rocket/divercity.git divercity ; cd divercity; ant

then simply run (in divercity directory): java -jar micropolisj.jar

Attention: Enabling sound might result in a slower UI experience.

new Features

• more realistic traffic: we replaced old traffic generation with A* path finding. We generate paths from residential areas along roads and rails, is a road heavily used it's getting less likely for new cars to use that road, so the traffic balances.
  • visits to buildings influence game variables like growth of zones, police efficience, culture effect etc. Visits are generated with our new traffic simulation
  • police and fire efficience is dependent on the traffic and transportation situation as well now. instead of a fixed radius, a breadth-first-search is used now to determine the effect area, making it much more realistic
• new buildings:
  • school: generates education points, is necessary to build a university
  • two types of university: generates education points, enables research by right clicking or using the query tool
  • museum: generates a culture effect
  • open air area: generates a culture effect
  • city hall: adds a new city center which increases the landvalue around it. Also statistics can be views by right clicking or using the query tool on it
  • big park
  • Energy: wind power plant and solar power plant can be researched in a university
  • transportation: new big road type, rails now need a station to be used
• research: in each of the two new universities continuos improvements can be researched as well as unlocking special buildings, such as the new power plants is possible there
• improved graphics: we tweaked some colors to be more eye pleasing
  • new splash screen
• more realistic pollution spreading: we now use a gaussian distribution to spread pollution around the map
• usability improvements: scolling with keyboard arrows works now
• bug fixing

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AUTHORS

Copyright (C) for Divercity: 2014 Arne Roland, Benjamin Kretz, Estela Gretenkord i Berenguer, Fabian Mett, Marvin Becker, Tom Brewe, Tony Schwedek, Ullika Scholz, Vanessa Schreck.

Copyright (C) for MicropolisJ: 2013 Jason Long ([email protected]). Portions Copyright (C) 1989-2007 Electronic Arts Inc.

MicropolisJ is based on Micropolis, Unix version, which was developed by Don Hopkins ([email protected], http://www.DonHopkins.com) for DUX Software under license from Maxis, in or around 1990. This version was later modified for inclusion in the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) program, and released as free and open source software under the GPL in 2008. Copyright (C) 1989-2007 Electronic Arts Inc.

The original Micropolis game was designed and implemented by Will Wright. Copyright (C) 2002 by Electronic Arts.

LICENCE STATEMENT

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

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ADDITIONAL TERMS per GNU GPL Section 7

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