Micropolis UI Sneak-a-Peek

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As you can tell, I really suck at running a city. By the year 2023 nobody likes me, power blackouts are everywhere and pollution has consumed the city creating a race of carbon dioxide breathing mutants. The UI is Python using Glade.

Yes, the numbers are real and being fed from the Micropolis game engine.

No, source is not available yet as we're still working building it out (and making it pretty, oh so pretty).

Published Wednesday, January 23, 2008 6:03 PM by Bil Simser
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Comments

Thursday, January 24, 2008 9:22 AM by Tom Opgenorth

# re: Micropolis UI Sneak-a-Peek

Time for the citizens of Micropolis to rise up and overthrow their inefficient, wasteful, and corrupt city management!

To arms Micropolians!

Thursday, January 24, 2008 10:50 AM by Bil Simser

# re: Micropolis UI Sneak-a-Peek

@Tom: You should sharpen your Python programming skillz and program yourself a revolution!

Friday, January 25, 2008 2:48 AM by Steeley

# re: Micropolis UI Sneak-a-Peek

I like the look. Not to take anything from the original game but the interface is very poor by today's standards and really needs updating before anything else is touched.

Still, a good start...

Just a quick point. It would probably be better from a usability point to put the status / message bar at the bottom (the one that says 'Blackouts reported. Check power map').

Friday, January 25, 2008 4:14 AM by SpeedoJoe

# re: Micropolis UI Sneak-a-Peek

Pretty bad that they've removed the plane crash disaster due to 9/11. I can't help but think that's a bit to PC.

Friday, January 25, 2008 5:57 AM by Bil Simser

# re: Micropolis UI Sneak-a-Peek

@Steely: It will be. Just a slipup when I was messing around with the UI and I didn't realize it was in the screenshot.

Sunday, February 03, 2008 12:43 PM by Bill Sargent

# re: Micropolis UI Sneak-a-Peek

How is this coming along? I know I'm curious how things will be code wise.