• Player starts with land purchased from successful business exit
• Highway runs through the map
• Design buildings and save as blueprints
• Included blueprints (created by dev)
• Begin fulfilling commercial needs as population increases
• Families move into home
• Basic demand/supply for all businesses/services
• Basic residential demand
• Residential auto zones (AKA classic zone placement)
• Basic municple service functionality
• Basic RICO demand

• Creative mode
• Difficulty levels
• Attract top talent in any/all industries to your city
• Fulfilling (more) resident demands attracts more people to city
• Work on keeping the city safe, healthy, and profitable
• Build Mayor's House and Office
• Taxes
• Pollution
• Noise pollution
• Choose industries to expand economy
• Hire municiple board members
• Weather
• Seasons
• Compete against other cities for talent/industries
• Dynamic macro/micro demand and supply; e.g. changing needs over time
• Offer more luxurious housing to attract talent
• Limit influence/range of businesses/services
• Purchase more land
• Atract special, top tier services/industries
• Disasters
• Wartime Draft
• Pandemic
• Recession/Depression
• Monopolies (squashing competition in specific industries)
• Catastrophic decline in specific industries (e.g. resource shortage or shift in demand)
• Flooding
• Tornado
• Earthquake
• Hurricane
• Firestorm
• Riots
• Basic nescessity shortages
• Food shortage
• Power Outages
• Special Events
• Celebrity Visits
• Parades
• Holidays

• Police Chases
• Visible Crime (e.g. watch a bank robbery)
• Zombie Mode (your police vs. your zombie population)
• Sims-like mode. Live in your own city
• Multiplayer (creative mode)
• Multiplayer (compete against other cities)
• Scenarios
• Passage of time, advances in technology/culture

• Basic schedule (Sleep, Work, Home)
• Determine transportation method (walk or drive)
• Breakfast
• Lunch
• Dinner
• Animations (various)
• Use specific in game objects for specific tasks
• Family Network/Graph

• Friends Network/Graph
• Colleague Network/Graph
• Various activities for each major schedule point
• Implement third places
• Exercise
• Visit Family
• Visit Friends
• Determine Transportation Method (with 1.0 options)
• Psychology
• Happiness
• Growth / Aging / Dying
• Activities based on stage of life
• Religion

• Place/Connect 1x1 and 2x2 roads
• Create the road graph/network
• Path finding on roads
• Path finding off road
• Deleting roads
• Smooth/floating point movement
• Intelligent intersection path finding logic (e.g. Don't enter full intersection)
• Sidewalks (road side)
• Sidewalks (player placed)
• Parking spaces (off road)
• Parking spaces (on road)
• Create new outside road connections
• Parking Lots

• Functional Crosswalk Signals (e.g. Count num cars in edges)
• More traffic light options (e.g. Count num cars in edges)
• Intelligent traffic lights (e.g. Count num cars in edges)
• Upgrading/downgrading roads
• Custom lane/intersection connections
• Curved roads (predefined)
• Busses and Bus lanes
• Trains
• Planes
• Boats
• Bridges
• Tunnels
• Taxis
• Close down roads/lanes for construction, accidents, etc.
• Elevated Roads
• Parking Garages
• More (and larger) road options

• Eight degrees of movement

• Place Zones, buildings, and rooms
• Path finding In buildings
• Path finding on property
• Building furniture/decor placement
• Room functionality rules
• Building blueprints
• Mixed use zones/buildings
• Construction Animations
• Handle construction cycle
• Object based AI/path finding
• Go to bed in bedroom when tired
• Use shower/toilet in bathroom
• Use stove in kitchen
• Use table when eating
• Et cetera

• Detailed Info/UI Panels
• Building Foundations
• Taller rooms for sky scrapers
• Commercial, Service, Office, and Industrial Businesses
• [Commercial] - Grocery Store
• [Commercial] - Clothing Store
• [Commercial] - Shoe Store
• [Commercial] - Pet Store
• [Commercial] - Jewelry Store
• [Commercial] - Gift Shop
• [Commercial] - Movie (VHS/DVD)
• [Commercial] - Music (CD/Vinyl)
• [Commercial] - Outdoor Gear
• [Commercial] - Furniture / Decor
• [Commercial] - Plant Store
• [Commercial] - Art Supplies
• [Commercial] - Car Dealerships
• [Commercial] - Hardware
• [Commercial] - Tech / Appliances
• [Commercial] - Drug Store
• [Commercial] - AND MORE . . .


• [Service] - Gas Station
• [Service] - Cafe
• [Service] - Restaurants {many types}
• [Service] - Nail Salon
• [Service] - Gym
• [Service] - Massage Parlor
• [Service] - Mechanic
• [Service] - Movie Theater
• [Service] - Pet Daycare
• [Service] - Tatoo / Piercing
• [Service] - Doctor Office
• [Service] - Dentist
• [Service] - Optometrist
• [Service] - Hotels/Motels
• [Service] - AND MORE . . .


• [Office] - Law
• [Office] - Taxes
• [Office] - Technology
• [Office] - Accounting
• [Office] - Insurance
• [Office] - Administration
• [Office] - Customer Service
• [Office] - Marketing/Advertisement
• [Office] - AND MORE . . .


• [Industry] - Farming
• [Industry] - Timber
• [Industry] - Gas
• [Industry] - Oil
• [Industry] - Metals
• [Industry] - Silicon Wafers/Chips
• [Industry] - Chemical Processing
• [Industry] - Manufacturing
• [Industry] - Warehouse/Storage
• [Industry] - Packaging
• [Industry] - Stone
• [Industry] - AND MORE . . .
• [Municple] - City Hall
• [Municple] - AND MORE . . .

• Procedural Building Generation
• Procedural Room Generation

• Fire Department
• Police Department
• Hospital
• Primary School
• Middle School
• High School
• University
• Library
• Parks
• Public Pool
• Recreation Center
• Sports Courts
• Museums
• Jail / Prison
• Municiple Service Supply/Demand
• Electricity
• Generation
• Distribution (power lines)
• Importing
• Exporting
• Gas
• Drilling
• Distribution
• Importing
• Exporting
• Oil
• Drilling
• Distribution
• Importing
• Exporting
• Water
• Personal Wells
• City Supply
• Distribution (pipes)
• Sewage
• Personal Septic Tanks
• City infrastructure (pipes)
• Sewage Treatment

• Provide attractions
• Set cultural policies
• Set economic policies
• Federal Funding with Requirements
• Tourism

• General profit mechanics (base on people)
• General demand for broad goods/services/utilities
• General residential, commercial, office, industrial demand
• Give tax breaks to specific industries/services to influence growth

• Abstract general profit mechanics to money
• Compete against neighboring cities for talent in all industries/services
• 30% cost increase for imported goods/services/utilities (less tax revenue)

• Individual agent bank/spending accounts
• Individual business bank/spending accounts
• Real time resources (importing/exporting/usage)

• Hire council members to automate city management
• Fire Marshall - Handles Dispatching, Fire Safety
• Chief of Police - Handles Dispatching, Crime
• Hospital - Handles Dispatching, Health
• Head of Education
• Head of Religion - Advocates for religious needs
• Head of Transportation - Handles Road Repairs
• Architect - Gives Access to Blue Prints
• Lawyer - Gives Access to Eminent Domain
• Treasurer - Gives Access to Taxes, Bonds
• Keep council members happy
• Losing and/or replacing council members
• Lose entire board if voted out of office
• Salary determines ability to attract talent

• Multi-floor buildings
• Terrain Textures
• Terrain Tools
• Terrain Height
• Bodies of water
• Map editor

• Property Value
• Traffic
• Pollution
• Natural Resources
• Utilities
• Fulfillment/Happiness
• Building Levels
• Noise Pollution
• Fire Safety
• Crime
• Transportation
• Population
• Outside Connections
• Leisure
• Heating
• Road Maintenance
• Tourism

• Top Down Graphics
• Isometric Graphics (60 degree)
• User Interface

• Combine textures for GPU efficiency
• Implement static quad based rendering for fastest LOD

• Isometric Graphics (45 degree)
• Isometric Graphics (30 degree)
• 8 or more camera rotations for all camera modes
• Custom lighting engine
• Combine 3D assets w/ current 2D graphics