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Simcity Calgary: 1980-2000 on Nov 6, 2009 in calgary simcity politics It's Friday, and it's the last blog post about this model Calgary. Let's see what the 80s and 90s were like. 1985: Yes the Klein era. Look at the city go. 1990: Oh look! Another fire! This time a helicopter crashed into the industrial complex. Lu...

Simcity Calgary: 1960-1980 on Nov 5, 2009 in calgary simcity politics This period was marked by major growth, northwest development, and a bunch of weird news articles. No more major fires! 1965: Calgarians are concerned with pollution. I chose not to put in the "fusion powered" plant because it doesn't exist and I'm...

Simcity Calgary: 1940-1960 on Nov 4, 2009 in calgary simcity politics This was a period of rapid growth as I tried to copy how our city looks like right now. However, in doing so, I forgot that one fire station cannot stop small fires. The police don't even do anything. In 1958, a huge fire consumed half the city and t...

Simcity Calgary: 1920-1940 on Nov 3, 2009 in calgary simcity politics Not going to lie to you. The Simcity loan system screwed up the simulation and it put the city into tremendous debt. The point of this whole series is to show you how a city with urban sprawl would look like. By the end of 1940, I had to infuse a who...

Simcity Calgary: 1900-1920 on Nov 2, 2009 in calgary simcity local politics In order to show off how the city progresses based on Calgary's current growth pattern, the next 5 days worth of blog posts will be mainly pictures to illustrate just what is going on. The point of this week's blog posts is to highlight how the city...

What if Calgary was modeled in SimCity? Let's test it out! on Nov 1, 2009 in calgary simcity news plan it politics In reference to a great to a great article written by Jeremy Klazus, the idea has always been there to build an actual SimCity model based on how Calgary was built. Over the past couple of weeks, this blog has been doing exactly that, and trying to m...

Happy Halloween! on Oct 31, 2009 in halloween calgary local ...