Dev Update 5 - How BIG Can This Apartment Go?

Remember in our last update, we showed a rendered image of a luxury apartment building? In the past weeks, we've been hard at work designing and tuning that asset to make it playable.

To answer the question, "how big can this apartment go?". Well, what's cool about them is they are

🎊Modular🎊

So really, as BIG as you want.

In City Rhapsody, when your city gets big enough, you'll have the capacity to build larger buildings. Our plan for them is they'll be modular out-of-the-box. The first ones we designed are the "medium residential buildings" aka apartments.

Let's explore how they work.

Full Integration With The Hybrid Grid System

To build these nice apartments, you'll still use the same intuitive building mechanism as the smaller buildings.

Of course, they'll be more expensive and take longer to build (we disabled the construction site in the video for demo purposes 🤓). But aside from that, since they are fully integrated with our hybrid grid, they'll snap neatly next to existing roads and buildings.

Building Variations

You probably noticed this icon in the menu

This means a building has many variations and City Rhapsody! will choose a random variation of the building for you each time you drop it. So your city will look vary different every time you play.

Since City Rhapsody! is about fine-grained control, we also let you specify which variant you want with the arrow keys so you can choose a specific one to build.

In this case, the middle pieces are collected into the same group as they are pretty much interchangeable while the end-pieces are not since they are more special.

Individually Functional

From the game's perspective, each piece is still one building so they are individually functional. But that also mean they all need their own electricity connections. Remember, they cost a fortune and draw a lot of power so if you build too fast, they'll drain the street's power and your citizens won't be happy living in a brand-new, but pitch-black apartment 😥.

Instead, if you are tight on budget or low on power, you can build them in stages so you don't bankrupt your city while you get carried away building big apartments 😉. Your citizens will happily live in the finished building while you build out the rest of the apartment.

Endless Possibilities

With careful planning and sustainable city growth, you'll be able to build large, beautiful, and vibrant communites.

We carefully crafted each building models so you can connect them however you want to while still making them look pretty. The combinations are endless! And as our game develops, we'll add more building and the possibilities just gets more and more 😍

We hope you like them! and as usual, if you haven't, wishlist City Rhapsody! today.

Until next time, cheers!

Michael