Check Out the Launch Trailer for the Twitch Integrated Experience in Silicon City

Annecy - France, June 15th, 2023 – Polycorne unveils the launch trailer for Silicon City, its new election feature for Silicon City, which will leave early access on 22 June (7 AM PST/ 4 PM CEST) and transforms the gaming experience into a City RPG on Twitch.

Silicon City is a fun citizen-centric city-building game with a retro-classic-flavor and modern tools.

Steam Page: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1121200/Silicon_City/

Get Elected or Leave the City!

In addition to all the buildings, data views, unique citizen profiles and customisation options, Silicon City has a brand new election system.

You start out as the Mayor of Silicon City, and all the modern tools at your disposal allow you to build and customize the city of your dreams. However, the Silizens (Citizens of Silicon City) all have their own opinions on the matter, and your term of office is in danger of running out if you don't listen to them carefully. 

Use your knowledge and the information provided by the municipal service on voter engagement and needs to run your election campaign. Get re-elected and continue to manage your urban planning projects, offering your fellow citizens a good life, or it's game over, Mr ex-mayor!

Silicon City as a City RPG

Twitch integration allows streamers to play with their viewers as citizens. These citizens appear in the game and can carry out a host of different actions, including looking for a job, using the Bakr social network, voting, and many other surprises.

Silicon City is thus transformed into a real Twitch RPG where, more than ever, every Silizen has a say, and where the streamer-mayor experience reaches its climax.

Features

• A tribute to the classic City-Builder 
• Unique, independent and important citizens
• Blueprint management and data views tools
• Procedurally generated buildings
• Customize your games
• Bakr: an integrated social network
• Multiple camera option
• A fun and friendly tone that makes the game accessible to everyone
• Twitch integration - Your audience become Silizens in your game
• A Silicon City Wiki.

Wiki: https://polycorne.notion.site/Welcome-to-Silicon-City-1a2fc3a46f104f099ef782e232bfdb85

About Polycorne Games

Polycorne Games is an indie video games studio from Annecy. We put gameplay innovation at the heart of our projects. We encourage creativity within our team to produce a unique gaming experience. We were born gamers and have a real passion for video games and their mechanics. Polycorne shares these values by contributing to management game projects with innovative concepts.

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Check Out Silicon City New Customization Features and Twitch App!

 

Annecy - France, May 25, 2023 – Studio Polycorne unveils customization features of Silicon City, due for release on PC on 22 June. Become a master planner (as well as a good mayor) and enjoy a wide range of data, and customizations available for the sandbox mode, but also interact on Twitch.

 

Silicon City is a fresh and innovative perspective on the classic city-building genre, where every citizen matters and has a say.

Be an urban engineer and a blueprint master

Use all the architectural tools at your disposal to shape your city to your taste. From the location of farms and residences to the optimization of the electrical system, commercial areas, cultural areas, and other public service buildings to optimize locations and make life easier for your citizens.

Study the value of your land, the occupancy and employment rates in your neighborhoods, optimize your power grid, and listen to the needs of your citizens (up-skilling, need for culture, health, happiness).

 

Create a unique and artistic city of your own

The zone buildings in Silicon City are procedurally generated, allowing you to have a variety of houses, farms, and offices in your city. These buildings are originally shaped and painted according to the influence of their neighborhood and the value of the land, but you can remodel or repaint them as you wish.

Use your creativity and design a 'historic' area and/or create iconic and colorful areas of your city like Notting Hill (London), Castro (San Francisco), or Altstadt (Cologne).

The customization options in Silicon City start with buildings and go up to citizens, the interactivity of streamers with their audience, and even complete scenarios.

Twitch app - or how to amplify customization and fun

The streamer (and mayor) can invite his subscribers into the game as citizens.

The latter will have many possibilities to act and interact in the game such as using the social network of the game Bakr and interacting with the streamer in-game, finding a job, walking around, rebuilding their house, and among other possibilities, voting in the municipal election.

Silicon City on Steam 

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1121200/Silicon_City/

Silicon City Wiki - includes more details on Features

https://polycorne.notion.site/Welcome-to-Silicon-City-1a2fc3a46f104f099ef782e232bfdb85 

About Polycorne Games

Polycorne Games is an indie video games studio from Annecy. We put gameplay innovation at the heart of our projects. We encourage creativity within our team to produce a unique gaming experience. We were born gamers and have a real passion for video games and their mechanics. Polycorne shares these values by contributing to management game projects with innovative concepts..

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Silicon City Releasing On Steam June 22!

Annecy - France, April 26, 2023 – The studio Polycorne announces the release of Silicon City for June 22nd, 2023. Available in early access since October 2021, Silicon City is a fresh and innovative perspective on the classic city-building genre, where every citizen matters and has a say.

As the mayor of a new city, you are in charge of its overall development and you can rely on modern tools to make it pleasant for your citizens and get re-elected.

The Importance of Silizens

In Silicon City, the citizens are called Silizens, and they are all unique and each of them has their own needs, feelings, opinions, and votes. Observe their daily behavior, study their personal profiles, and interact with them via Bakr, Silicon City's Twitter-like social network.

The Silizens will not hesitate to share their needs, contentment, and resentment with your urban development policy. The attractiveness of your city and the well-being of your citizens are the keys to your re-election, while not listening to your Silizens will generate protests and may cost you your job.

Buildings and Procedural Generation

Over 50 building types are available in Silicon City. Whether built by the player or by citizens, the houses, stores, offices, and utility buildings where your citizens can live and work are procedurally generated, offering unique creativity to the look of your neighborhoods and your city.

Modern Views of the Data

Silicon City offers several styles of camera views as a tribute to the classic city-builder genre of the 80s and 90s. However, as a modern mayor, you have access to modern visualization tools that are very useful to develop your city and make your citizens happy.

You can analyze land values, optimize your electrical network, develop your neighborhoods following their residential and professional occupancy rates, plan traffic flows, and many other major actions to be taken thanks to the availability of this data. Access to these many layers of data allows the player to become a great urbanist by linking the macro and micro-management of the city.

About Polycorne Games

Polycorne Games is an indie video games studio from Annecy. We put gameplay innovation at the heart of our projects. We encourage creativity within our team to produce a unique gaming experience. We were born gamers and have a real passion for video games and their mechanics. Polycorne shares these values by contributing to management game projects with innovative concepts.

Article by: Susan N.

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