Oo this is cool. What simulated elements are present/planned so far? Is there like a mini economy and things like actor preferences implemented? I checked out the devblog and although aspects like 3D rendering are interesting, I'm more interested in the simulation details and mechanics.
For example, all of them have hunger state, have jobs assigned to them, a house etc.
So a single citizen will always go back where it lives everyday instead of a random house, it will try to go near its home to buy groceries. I've decided that they don't have money as I found it too hard to calibrate, but there is still "real" items like bread being exchanged.
It would be fun to see the kinds of emergent behavior that arises. Maybe even hook an LLM up and let it drive some narratives.
I like to think too that with sufficient fidelity a simulation of this sort may be useful in real world city planning/economic modeling/geopolitics.
Will be keeping a close eye on this :)
>I like to think too that with sufficient fidelity a simulation of this sort may be useful in real world city planning/economic modeling/geopolitics.
This was one of the early vision I had for this project: Simulating different economies to see which ones fared better. However I have kind of abandoned this as the realy world is just far too complex! Making a "normal" but different city builder seems a bit more achievable.
Every so often, citizens and companies (I call the abstraction a "Soul") look through everything they can do and pick the on with the highest utility score.
If they're hungry, they'll get food. If it's the time of day where they should work, they'll go to work, except if they're too hungry!