citybound / showcaser

A webapp to show off your city & create a city journal

showcaser

A webapp to show off your city & create a city journal

Observation: city-building game players love to create beautiful showcases or even development journals of their cities.

Goal: let's build a webapp that specializes in doing that, is tighly integrated with the game and allows easy sharing

Initial design

Please discuss in the showcaser room on Gitter

Pages

Homepage

City: Introduction

• Name
• Main screenshot / screenshot slider
• Description
• Most important city stats (from savegame)
• Savegame download

City: Journal

Timeline of events and mini-blog-posts

• automatically created (can be hidden individually)
  • Start of a new plan
  • Start of plan implementation
  • Plan implementation finished/failed
  • Achieving statistic milestones (10.000 inhabitants etc.)
  • Yearly review (Graphs, stats, ...)
• manually created
  • free form observations, verbal plans, stories

Can individually be shared and commented on elsewhere (default community: Reddit) But: maybe have a simple form of reactions already on the page?

City: Places

Highlight special places in your city

• Main Picture
• Name
• Reference to
  • Any 3D location in world
  • Building
    • Stats about inhabitants/businesses in this building (from savegame)
  • Infrastructure
    • Stats about traffic
• Creation date in game-time (player provided)
• Description/Background-Story

City: Maps and Stats

Interactive stats and data maps, maybe as extensive as in the game