Initially popularized on Reddit, this video depicts the creation of “Magnasanti,” a Simcity 3000 metropolis that, in terms of game mechanics and incentives, is a model of perfection.
Entitled “Simcity 3000 – ABSOLUTE MAXIMUM,” the creation video relays tales of a three-year construction period executing Da Vinci-like designs scrawled on reams of parchment. Magnasanti sports a population of over 6 million, a crime rate of zero, no roads (mass transit only), and a flawless integration of commercial, industrial, and residential zones modeled after the Bhavacakra, or Tibetan wheel of life.
While some Reddit commentators dismissed the project as a “colossal waste of time,” others noted that it could serve as a juicy resume item for an application to an urban design or architectural graduate program.
In my view, the designs of Magnasanti may not be culturally relevant for centuries. In the year 2790, however, a post-apocalyptic survivalist clan may discover it amidst the debris of kitten piano videos and Star Wars fan spoofs on a salvaged YouTube server cluster found under the rubble of Mountain Viewtopia, the irradiated former capital of Googlestan. (Feel free to credit Dr. Laserfalcon when you inevitably steal this screenplay idea).
Or that may just be the effect the video’s epic theme music has on my brain.
Originally posted on Technorati.
