Hiya.My job is to make pretend kitchens out of spreadsheets.When I'm not doing that, I'm mostly playing videogames. The current goal is to come up with the stupidest ideas for videogames, and then actually try and create them. I usually give up after a week (although I did create some levels that are included on the PC/iPhone Repton update. You should buy that right now).The other half of this blog is just opinions and lists that I wanted to write for my own sake. It's probably boring to everyone else, so... er... sorry about that.
Disclaimer: All estate names and sizes are purely based on random rememberings and pun opportunity, and have no bearing on personal preferences or relationships. I love you all.
The Mas Production estate was the first big industrial estate, and, although the industrial sector has decreased due to the skill set of the city’s population, it has actually grown to encompass the rubbish-incineration plants - the only non-green power source in the city. Also, sometimes, it’s on fire.
The EofGizmo estate demonstrates my inability to fit building zones in small areas. However, you can see the nice pedestrial bridges I made. All of the gridroads are named after staff members of the publication that formed this forum. At the back, the Kittsy Bypass is visible. It was originally part of the city’s grid system, but alien commuters used the road to travel between the motorways in the north and south of the city, clogging up the traffic, so it had to become a bypass.
Treesmurf Farms - farmland, but in a modern city! It’s got piggies! And a tractor! The demand for farms is decreasing, and there’s a larger farm to the north of the city, so it may be that, in future, this becomes a trendy gentrified housing estate.
Crumpyland contains the south part of the city’s facilities - medical centres, the police station etc., as well as a schamncy plaza. Look how many people are waiting for a bus! If they were going the other way, they’d have a choice of two... that were merging together.
Athrunshore has a graveyard opposite the local high school - that’ll get the kids to behave. Soon you’ll be dead. There’s also the stunning opera house, accessible from the ring road. Although, stupid arsehole that I am, drew the one-way system the wrong way round, so you have to cross over the junction as you enter or leave.
Kerwinton is the place for the Chozo High School, where all budding bird-like things go to learn Morph Balls and Food Technology. Behind that, you can see the attempt to organise the motorway, and the more recently added rail network, with a bridge system that’s asking for trouble. It’s a bit roller-coaster-y.
The Axis Axis. Axis made a mistake of saying he liked Repton once, so there’s a Repton street. This is one of the narrow estates in the north-east, and is, apart from this playground, jam-packed with houses.
The Beemoh memorial. Uh, Beemoh isn’t dead, so that sounds bad. Also ignore that skull and crossbones. That means someone else has died. And the hearse hasn’t arrived yet. Grim. Also, this is a shopping street. Why’s a body being stored there?
This is just wind farms..
Musselbury is home of The M - a giant hypermarket, full of outlets for all of your favourite brands. They’ve got Zenator. They’ve got Sternberger. The’ve got... *squints* Schwarzenecfer?
Dusty Knackerford is another little factory estate. Doing quite well, looking at all of those shipping containers. Also, in the top-left - that’s the motorway. There really should be some barriers on that thing.
Silver Heights is full of swanky offices. It’s got its own underground station and everything. Hop on the Kid Kat line, and you’ll be in another part of the city in no time.
Balla Deer Woods was designed to be a nature reserve. So, there are very few houses, and everything was built without the need to chop down a single tree. Therefore, i’s immensely impractical.
Shanksbury nearly went the way of the dodo; however, now that it has its own rail depot (at the cost of a snaking monstrosity of a train track) it’s picked up quite nicely. Those icons do indicate that there can only be a finite lifespan, however...
This time, Duckburg is not on fire. A group of kids waits at the bus stop, to be taken home after a long school day. However, the busses that have arrived seem to have arsed everything right up.
Ooh, it’s the Grant Jones Business Park! This is the bit we show off when visitors come. It’s got a train station on the national network, an underground station, and a fancy schmancy exhibition centre.
Mandlebury is an industrial estate in the middle of the town, which wasn’t very clever of me. However you can see the super-aerial rail network. If you’re a bit funny with heights, you might want to get a bus.
If you wish to save your friend, solve my maze. I couldn’t do the green hoops, I’m afraid.
Oldskool corner also suffers from north-east syndrome; it’s a bit long and thin. However, the centre block has loads of luxury apartments. I’m not responsible for the parking spaces that are completely inaccessible.
Here’s the view from above Fronk Park#s Fronk University. We’ve got a university! Therefore the student digs along the quayside are mega expensive to let.
Ah, the suburban coziness of Drunkalilly. The green bus drivers are often asked: Do they know... Kid For To A Road?
Cappuccino Square - it’s the heart of everything. The commercial powerhouse that funds the rest of the city. It’s got everything, benefiting from my terrible rail system, and with a volume traffic that the streets weren’t built to handle.
Jasterton is a nice suburban... suburb... with a big park in the middle. It incongruously straddles a major road, and the “road planner” has fiddled about with this several times, to avoid a complete standstill.
The Orange Rakoon etstate seems to hold an unsustainable amount of commercial buildings. Also visible: the X-Wing-style junctions onto the main road.
The Rum Rapture Estate contains the swanky tower that controls all of the city’s public transport nees. For some reason, this makes it a tourist hotspot. If you’re in upper management, you get a great view of Balla Deer Woods.
Moo Moo Meadows. This is probably too much farm. There’s a lot of derelict buildings there. But it does its own rail depot. Fun fact: there are Moo Moo references on two other estates.
The Alternative Account Estate, designed to fill a tiny narrow bit of space at the very north. You’ve got Hopkins Street, Horse Street, Sylveon Street - all your favourites.
Moyleston is the housing area for all the trendy young people, right in the middle of the city. This place is f***ing expensive.
Zero Circle has streets based on roundabouts. Because roundabouts are circles, which is a type of maths. Wasted edges aside, this actually works really well.
The Gwyn 400 estate hosts the city’s stadium; hence the traffic extravaganza. There’s so many pedestrians in that picture! There are also 4 yellow bus route busses, and 4 white bus route busses. That can’t be good. Also there’s another hearse at the bottom of screen, picking someone up from the shop. What is going on in the shops?
The Fancy Estate. It’s fancy. Those curved roads are completely unnecessary.
Lastly - for some reason - the place that started it all - the Stu the Great Estate. Having been established for a while, and being on the river, some of the houses are worth a lot. I was going to make the roads look like “SJ”. However, it came out as “GJ”. How confusing.
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