Dream City Builder Contest (2SBD prize)

in #citybuilder6 years ago (edited)

Hi everyone, here is a little update on my city. I decided to add a West side and it is still very much in development so I would be glad for any ideas you may have, see contest below.
It doesn’t have a name yet so I think I am going to call it Riccoli, that’s a cute name.

As you can see the East side has many industrial buildings which create lots of jobs but also a lot of pollution. The petroleum fueled power plant creates a surplus which the town can sell to neighbors. There is an elementary school, a grocery store, some farmland and a few modern houses. The luxury retirement home has a pool on the roof but the train station is a bit decrepit.

The West side contains City Hall, the farmer’s market as well as the most famous hairdresser in the whole region. A group of environmentalists live in round houses and convinced the mayor to install solar panels everywhere in the hopes of one day getting rid of the polluting oil power plant. Next to the hospital is a cancer research facility sponsored by a local family of aliens from outer space.

Riccoli

Population

Current Population: 558
Children:70
Employed: 431
Unemployed: 23
Retired: 34

Industrial Jobs: 320
Commercial Jobs: 65
Services Jobs: 29

Work commuters
Commuters out: 6
Commuters in: 89

I drew these animations in Animate HD for IOS

I would love to award a 2 SBD prize to an idea that could improve the town. You can explain your idea, draw a building or better yet, draw two frames which I can translate into an Animation.

~Create your own post to put in the comment section
~ Use the tag #citybuilder
~Include a link to this post in your post
~Resteem this post so others can learn about the contest

Every participant will have their idea incorporated to Riccoli.
The winner will receive their prize at the payout of this post.
If this post does really well I will increase the prize.

Riccoli is a city that exists on the Steem Blockchain, with your help, they can thrive into a blossoming community full of joie de vivre.

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Congratulations! I have featured your post in this week's entry to the Pay it Forward Curation Contest

As such, I've resteemed and upvoted this post. Hopefully, you'll get some extra traffic from the contest this week.
Keep up the great work!

Thank you @viking-ventures, your support is fueling me with inspiration to keep going. As universe builders, we have to stick together. I will be extending the contest by another week, I hope you enter.

No drawing skills necessary, you can describe your idea for a building or infrastructure in a short paragraph.

When you repost it, I suggest making the need rules and optional rules a bit clearer since many of us have ideas, but lack the talent to draw it.

I will describe a couple of my cityscapes for you. But, since I do have some city maps already, maybe I'll do another post for it as you desired. :-)

I see your point, it’s also good too have people scratching their heads. I think I have a solution, stay tuned.

Found your post thanks to @viking-ventures entry. This is a fun little project you have going here. Wish I had the skills to join in...or even the time to try and learn the needed skills. Think it would be interesting for sure.

Thank you so much for your interest. Keep in mind you do not need to know how to draw but instead you can simply describe a building or infrastructure you could see be added to the city. Hope it convinces you to enter. I love your Pay it Forward Contest, it has been so helpful of late.

Okay - just did a nice big post for you - including some of the intricacies of my huge city-state, Irola. Please consider this my entry.
https://steemit.com/amarabooks/@viking-ventures/citybuilding-for-terrenden-874bea8faf73eest

Thanks for an awesome entry, you are so creative. If you think about universe buildings with quantum rules, you really don’t need to flesh out parts of cities your characters never interacted with. Say an ancient race built a room. It’s state of existence before and after it was discovered by humans is completely different. The people pioneering this discovery will establish parameters with their sense of touch, sight and smell. Before this, it was pure potential undetermined by our limited understanding.

Yes! Even with our own creations, it is quite okay to say "I don't know - yet."

The legend I ended up writing this week... I'd realized that I was eventually going to have to start writing legends, but this one was suddenly foisted upon me when another story had characters which started talking about this legend...

(I don't know if you've had the experience where the characters just sort of take over and tell you what they're up to - it's kind of a weird experience, but so important!)

So, suddenly, I had to go back, and finish up this stagnant story that takes place 2000 years before the current set and tell the legend that takes place about 2000 years before that!

(I really need to take a few days and catch up on my encyclopedia as this week has seen a lot of new things happen that needs to be better documented!)

I admire your ability to hold an encyclopedia, it must be quite a challenge to keep it all organize and to make sure to consult the relevant bits before writing. It could be worse, I can’t imagine working for Marvel comics having to refer to character history written by so many people working with their own lore. At least you’re one person.

Thankfully, since it is only me, I can remember an awful lot of what has gone before. But it is also absolutely essential - especially when keeping track of characters.

The books I'm currently serializing take place in 850 Terrenden Common Era, but there are frequent mentions of something that happened to Saraca in her past - something that causes her to be very conservative in advising A'mara about relationships.

Then, I came into a time when I could not work on a computer, but still wanted to write - so, I started writing what would be Saraca's Tragedy (now called the Birth of the Neví and scheduled to be serialized and epublished in August.) I had to remember how old characters were to make it work - and even once I had my older works with me, I had to do some adjusting to make things mesh. (Some of that material is going into the sequel - Rise of the Neví.)

More recently, as I've been working on my 851 T.C.E. set, I need characters, but it's better if I can re-use existing characters rather than create new ones, so I look to my character encyclopedia and ask myself, who is in Towani City (for example) in 851? Who is available to transfer? Who needs to be married off? (Since they are romances as well.) Who has been born? And which new characters are really required?

I guess, my real point is that an encyclopedia saves me a lot of time and headache later on! Especially when I'm writing (so far) on three separate points on the time line - one of which will soon run into the other, so we have age issues. I have existing stories from three other very separate points on the timeline as well, which will need to be tied in at some point.

Fantastic idea and I love the animations. You were featured this week in the #payitforward contest by @viking-ventures. Congrats!

Thanks! I appreciate it!

You are featured again in pay it forward contest this week @edouard 😉 thanks to @viking-ventures

I didn't have any ability to draw or create animation, but your contest is quite challenging. I think you need to promote your post through some discord channels. Minnow support or other channel to gain more attention. Wish you all the best with this contest.

This is an outstanding peace of advice, hopefully I have time!

Sweet it's like sims for steemit kind of. Lol. Resteemed and will revisit later for idea additions

Yeah no it totally is.

Oh this is cool Edouard! I just sat and watched the two frame animations go back and forth for far too long :) I am easily entertained LOL

That’s my Carl tho

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As you know @viking-ventures featured you in this weeks #PayItForward contest @pifc.

What a great idea for inspiration and everyone loves a contest. Keep up your amazing artwork!! Hopefully you'll find you way to joining us from time to time in the future.

Thank you so much, of course I’ll find a way.


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