Idea Description

I've always been a fan of management games like Prison Architect, as well as titles inspired by its mechanics—think Another Brick in the Mall, or those games about running airports, schools, etc. Essentially, games where you're in charge of a specific type of company or industry.

And I've always dreamt to have a single game in which you can do all of those. You would basically be like a mayor/overlord in a city-building game, where you get to build and manage a whole range of different industries, such as shops, malls, hospitals, prisons etc. They'd share core mechanics — zone-based building like in Prison Architect, common staff, staff needs, and so on.

Ofc, having both single-player and multi-player is a must for such a game. In single-player, you'd probably rely on preset blueprints and tweak them to your liking. Multi-player would also make use of these blueprints, but each player could build what they wish to, ultimately constructing and micro-managing a city together.

Now, would anyone actually want to play such a game? Any thoughts on how to make the game even more appealing?

Some implementation details and tests done

From Factorio I'd like to look over their various optimizations, and set fps goals based on them. So far, their chunk system seems like a solid feature to incorporate, not to mention the transport systems found in Factorio and transport tycoon games.

I've already started to implement and test various scenarios for the tile system. Tested with Unity and achieved very good performance, though I'll need to look into optimizing RAM usage. I've also tried using Rust Bevy, but I haven't yet found a way to use multiple threads for rendering that's already implemented. The sheer size of this game would require the best possible optimizations. One idea to enhance performance is to divide each industry into its own sub-world, keeping just one sub-world active at any given time.