1.Brief Introduction

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SimCity is a city-building video game. It was first published in 1989 by Maxis as SimCity. The game is developed by Will Wright, who later designed a series of SimCity like SimCity 2000, SimCity 3000, SimCity 4, SimCity Societies, SimCity (2013). Due to the success of SimCity, Electronic Arts (EA) released many other spin-off “Sim” titles, like 2000’s The Sims which is the best-selling computer game up until approximately 2012.

In SimCity, the player is acting as a mayor, who is aiming to develop a city, while maintaining the happiness of the citizens and keeping a stable budget. The mayor design zones from residential, commercial to industrial and make deals with neighboring cities to raise economic growth. This is a game in which it could neither be won nor lost.

In this game, essentially players love to be mayor, who is the leader of a city. The player can use their intelligence to make the city better. Moreover, players would like to play it for education purpose, which was contradicted in the article “Seeing Like SimCity”.