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A digital twin of the city of Colombo, Sri Lanka, implemented in Cities: Skylines, based on real data. Nearly 1:1 in terms of geography and population.

8 mentions on Hacker News by 1 person: 1 story, 7 comments · first 2024-09-01 · latest 2024-09-04

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  1. …to read the methodology - most of the imports broke and it ended up being a lot of manual work: https://github.com/team-watchdog/colombo-skylines/wiki/Intro... As for limits, when modded to the hilt, Skylines will give you: 298.6 sq km…
    comment by icaruswept · 2024-09-04 · in We built the city of Colombo in Cities:Skylines
  2. …might help: the list of mods and what they do. You can pick what seems most useful for your game. https://github.com/team-watchdog/colombo-skylines/wiki/mod-c...
    comment by icaruswept · 2024-09-04 · in We built the city of Colombo in Cities:Skylines
  3. …Tried linking them here, but the URLs are massive, so let me link the docs - 1) Methodology: https://github.com/team-watchdog/colombo-skylines/wiki/Intro... 2) Main readme: https://github.com/team-watchdog/colombo-skylines
    comment by icaruswept · 2024-09-04 · in We built the city of Colombo in Cities:Skylines
  4. …all the roads by hand with the maps on a second monitor. Some screenshots of the process here: https://github.com/team-watchdog/colombo-skylines/wiki/Intro...
    comment by icaruswept · 2024-09-04 · in We built the city of Colombo in Cities:Skylines
  5. Methodology here: https://github.com/team-watchdog/colombo-skylines/wiki/Intro... We've also tweaked many of the assumptions (traffic flow, citizen lifecycles etc) https://github.com/team-watchdog/colombo-skylines/wiki/mod-c... to get…
    comment by icaruswept · 2024-09-04 · in We built the city of Colombo in Cities:Skylines
  6. …data for when public sources ran dry (especially flow along the corridors) - see the workflow at https://github.com/team-watchdog/colombo-skylines/wiki/Intro...
    comment by icaruswept · 2024-09-04 · in We built the city of Colombo in Cities:Skylines
  7. …on board with their ideas. We do have a reasonable "how we did this" section if you're interested! https://github.com/team-watchdog/colombo-skylines/wiki/Intro...
    comment by icaruswept · 2024-09-04 · in We built the city of Colombo in Cities:Skylines
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    We built the city of Colombo in Cities:Skylines
    story by icaruswept · 2024-09-01 · 183 comments