Iceflake Studios is reportedly aiming to evolve how players interact with their virtual cities in the upcoming Lego Skylines. The developers are focused on making urban difficulties and inefficiencies immediately apparent within the game world, moving away from reliance on intricate data screens or specialized overlays. Unlike common issues such as traffic jams, which players can instantly see and react to by redesigning their street layouts, many deeper problems in city management games often require digging through statistics to uncover.
This design philosophy seeks to ensure that even subtle challenges within the Lego city are visibly represented, prompting more intuitive problem-solving. A particular focus for the studio includes developing “family friendly” ways to illustrate complex societal issues. Among these, the team is working on creative methods to show difficulties such as homelessness directly within the game environment, without needing players to consult a separate statistical overview. This report is based on information from Rock Paper Shotgun.
