Somehow, I downloaded the game at three o'clock in the morning, thinking about building two random houses before going to bed. But when I looked up, it was already dawn, and a crooked and glowing small city appeared on the screen of my mobile phone. At that moment, I suddenly felt that a certain place in my heart was filled.
There is a game called "City Island 2: Construction Story", which is produced by Sparkling Society. It is actually a simulation business game for building a house on your mobile phone. However, when you really get involved in playing it, you will find that things are far from that simple.
At first, everyone was in a hurry.
In the desolate land, there is only the ruined island and nothing else. When the system gives instructions to build houses, they build them; when it gives instructions to build roads, they build them. The initial layout was a disaster - I installed the power station in the middle of a residential area, only to learn later that it reduced happiness.
Residents have problems with bubbles rising above their heads. They sometimes lack schools and sometimes find it too noisy.
Annoying as hell, but also inexplicably true.
Regarding money, it’s the same inside and outside the game
Short of money. Always missing.
In the beginning, I was building the farm so frantically that I harvested money every minute, which made my fingers click to the point of cramping. Then I realized that something was not right. If this continued, sooner or later I would develop tenosynovitis. And just making money is useless. Jobs must match the population. If there are no jobs, residents will move elsewhere, and eventually the city will become a ghost town.
Do you know that when you occasionally look at the little people on the screen going to work along the path I have laid, you will feel a strange sense of satisfaction in your heart. They didn't know that I planned all of this, but I knew it.
Three-dimensional city and my ambition
Later in the game, I unlocked a new island and started playing with flowers.
There are trains running on the ground, a subway needs to be dug underground, and a resort hotel must be built in the seaside area. Some players stated that by putting a hotel and a marina together, the income from tourism can be tripled. I tried it and it does.
How to describe the feeling, it's like you started out as a small yard and then gradually built an empire.
What the residents want and what I can give
Here's a detail: Residents will complain.
In the comment area, a player wrote that he hopes to add airports, hopes to add ports, and hopes to add snow and rainy days. Others say they want to have a night mode and see what the city looks like when it lights up. I looked at that comment for a long time, and suddenly felt a little sad - in the game, the mayor can make citizens' wishes come true, but what about in reality?
Therefore, I particularly care about things that look like smiling faces in the game. Wherever there are parks, trees, and riverside paths, I will pave them wherever they can be paved. Even though the data shows that the happiness value has reached overflowing status, I still hope to make their lives better.
Why do we love to play this game?
Maybe it’s because planning in reality is too difficult.
You can't decide who your neighbors will be, you can't make the road to work less congested, you can't make annoying noise disappear. However, in the game, you can do it. You are God, you are the mayor, you are the chief architect.
One participant expressed it quite appropriately. From a fishing village to an international city, every time a regional plan is completed, a feeling of creating the world with one's own hands emerges.
That's what it feels like.
The last thing I want to say
The game version is continuously being updated, bugs in it are fixed, and some minor improvements are added. However, the larger content that players crave, such as the nightlife scene, the changing seasons, and airport facilities, are still waiting to be released.
I'm waiting too.
Sit back and watch on a rainy day to see if the little people in my city can hold an umbrella. Waiting for a real sunset to light up the skyscrapers I built myself.
By then, I will probably still be staring at the screen of my phone like I was this morning.
Then tell yourself: Look, this is the country I have laid for you.
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