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complete construction. Players must manage resources within a growing economy, where resources are produced, consumed, and exchanged. Resources are drawn from a source, such as money from a bank, or gold from a mine. Some CMSs allow players to convert resources from one type to another, such as fermenting sugar into rum. Common resources include money, people, and building materials. Resources are utilized in one of two ways: either construction, where players build or buy things to serve some purpose, or maintenance, where players must make ongoing payments to prevent loss or decay. Sometimes demolishing a structure will cost resources, but this is often done at no cost or with partial recovery of resources spent on its construction.
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resources are only limited by available city finances. These games utilize construction and management extensively, with incredible detail in more aspects of the game than other simulation genres. They may also feature combat against hostile entities of the remote environment, typically not a feature of other subgenres, and often require the player to consider fortifications, so this genre may be named "base building games" The colony management genre has fewer titles compared to the other subgenres due to the niche market. Notable titles include
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focus upon growth. These games are based in a setting where an economy can be built and managed, usually some kind of community, institution, or empire. The player's role seldom corresponds to a real life activity, since the player is usually more involved in detailed decisions than a real manager or administrator. Players usually have two types of tools at their disposal: tools for building and tools for managing.
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put players in charge of an island, allowing them to control its entire military and economy. The population had to be kept happy, and the military had to be strong enough to thwart attacks from rebels and pirates. This game required complex thought in an era where most games were about reflexes. The
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in 1989, which is considered the first highly successful construction and management simulation. The game allows players to build a city from the ground up and then manage it, with challenges such as balancing a budget and maintaining popular opinion, and was considered a sophisticated simulation of
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where the construction appears immediately. Random disasters can also create new construction challenges, and some games impose constraints on how things must be constructed. But usually the act of construction is quite simple, and the main challenge of a CMS is obtaining the resources required to
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game economy through graphs and other analytic tools. This often includes advisers that warn players of problems and describe current needs. As such, CMS games have some of the most complex interfaces of any game type. These games can be quite popular even without the latest graphics.
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into a position as one of the most influential people in the game industry. These games influenced the eventual release of the Tycoon series of games, which are also an important part of the genre.
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248:List of business simulation video games
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1300:"50 greatest game design innovations"
782:and troubleshooting computer errors.
263:List of space flight simulation games
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3085:List of computer simulation software
713:Business simulation and tycoon games
1743:Wright, Steven (January 26, 2021).
1661:"An Ode to Optimization Videogames"
1633:Donaldson, Alex (January 4, 2017).
913:. Other examples of this genre are
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1422:"Making City Planning a Game"
1359:"The History of Console RPGs"
1357:Vestal, Andrew (1998-11-02).
1159:"School Tycoon for PC Review"
1106:. University of Texas Press.
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2931:Modelling biological systems
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1387:Philip Kollar (2007-11-08).
1102:The Medium of the Video Game
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1250:Fundamentals of Game Design
1157:Beers, Craig (2004-03-18).
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2101:Digital collectible card
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75:Business simulation game
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192:Combat flight simulator
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170:Sports management game
102:Social simulation game
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3034:Biopsychosocial model
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1272:Bloomsbury Publishing
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967:Crisis in the Kremlin
845:Life simulation games
839:Life simulation games
775:PC Building Simulator
573:Destiny of an Emperor
560:series from 1986 and
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466:(1964), a text-based
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85:Government simulation
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2890:Scientific modelling
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1602:"The Pursuit of Fun"
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769:RollerCoaster Tycoon
468:early mainframe game
324:Strategy video games
92:Life simulation game
2987:Modular Ocean Model
2438:Turn-based strategy
2343:Submarine simulator
2149:Action role-playing
2056:Interactive fiction
936:Captain of Industry
694:Oxygen Not Included
637:City-building games
552:Nobunaga's Ambition
531:Nobunaga's Ambition
476:economic simulation
399:Economic challenges
363:(since 2001), pure
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216:Submarine simulator
182:Vehicle simulations
48:Part of a series on
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3064:Inputâoutput model
2977:Hydrological model
2967:Geologic modelling
2839:Video game modding
2781:Nonlinear gameplay
2443:Turn-based tactics
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463:The Sumerian Game
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