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SimCity (2013)

The defining city simulation is back! Build the city you desire, make impactful choices, and shape the lives of your Sims.

release: March 5, 2013platforms: Macplatforms: PC
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SimCity (2013)

Overview

Game information

First release March 5, 2013
Platforms
Mac, PC
Developer
Maxis

Release history

Release dates by platform & region

PC, Mac and console editions can have different regional launch dates.

Computer edition

PC / Windows

Europe
United Kingdom

Regions without a recorded date or explicit release status are omitted.

35 Images
28 Tracks

Gameplay highlights

Key Features

Sims Matter

Sims Matter

The Sims in your city speak to you directly and it’s up to you to respond by completing pledges.

City Specialization

City Specialization

Create a unique city each time you play by specializing in a specific industry.

Multiplayer

Multiplayer

Work together with friends to build a region for the first time!

Constructible Worlds

Constructible Worlds

Immersive 3D worlds and tactile interactions give you the power to shape the city you envision.

GlassBox Engine

GlassBox Engine

SimCity introduces GlassBox, the revolutionary simulation technology that gives you the power to impact individual Sims lives, manage city level simulation, and balance multiple city simulations at once.

Presentation

About this game

The defining city simulation is back! Create the city you desire and make the choices that shape your city and power the Sims within it. Every decision, big or small, has real consequences. Invest in heavy industry and your economy will soar—but at the expense of your Sims’ health as pollution spreads. Implement green technology and improve your Sims’ lives while risking higher taxes and unemployment. Team up with your friends to solve global challenges: launch a space shuttle, reduce carbon emissions, or build magnificent wonders. Compete on global and regional leaderboards to be the richest, the dirtiest, the happiest or the best place to visit!

Screenshots, renders, logos and covers

Image archive

33 images
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Sims in this game

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Households connected to this game

Families

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Neighbourhood content

Worlds & lots

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Traits and aspirations

CAS encyclopedia

Official and archive videos

Trailers & videos

Developers, publishers and SIMusics artists

Credits

565Development credits
1Publishers
1SIMusics artists

Complete development team

Credits organized by department

Open a department to browse its teams and the exact function recorded for each person.

565
Maxis Studio Development 115 credits

Software Engineer

26

Senior Software Engineer

7

Gameplay Scripter

9

Gameplay Designer

3

3D Artist

8

Level Designer

2

UI Art Director

1

Sound Designer

2

Animator

1

Technical Art Director

1

Assistant Producer

1

Development Director

5

UI Designer

5

Engineering Intern

1
Vu Ha

Engineering Intern

Producer

5

Senior Lighting Artist

1

Audio Director

1

Senior Producer

1

Concept Artist

4

Art Director

2

Lead Designer

1

Senior 3D Artist

3

Associate Technical Director

1

Lead Gameplay Engineer

1

Lead Graphics Engineer

1

Online Technical Director

1

Senior VFX Artist

1

Lead Gameplay Scripter

1

Associate Producer

2

Creative Director/Sr. Art Director

1

Studio COO

1

Office Manager

1

Technical Artist

1

Associate Designer

2

Lead Online Engineer

1

Art Intern

1

Senior Development Director

1

UI Director

1

Technical Director

2

Senior UI Designer

1

Composer

1

External Art Coordinator

1

Lead Architect

1

Content Development Director

1
Additional Mac Development 6 credits

Software Engineer

4

Producer

1

Technical Director

1
External Partners 3 credits

Role not specified in source

3
Maxis Label 10 credits

SVP Maxis Label Head

1

COO Maxis Label

1

CFO Maxis Label

1

VP Product Strategy and Quality

1

Sr. Director Human Resources

1

Senior Counsel

1

HR Manager

1

Finance Manager

1

Sr. Financial Analyst

1

Finance Analyst

1
Communications 7 credits

Senior Director of Communications

1

Worldwide Communications Director

1

Worldwide PR Manager

1

PR Specialist

2

Worldwide Head of Community

1

North America Community Specialist

1
Marketing 5 credits

VP Marketing

1

Worldwide Marketing Director

1

Worldwide Senior Marketing Manager

1
Karen Tong

Worldwide Senior Marketing Manager

International Marketing Director

1

International Marketing Manager

1
Website 3 credits

Senior Online Product Manager

1

Visual Web Designer

1

Associate Product Manager

1
Video Capture Team 11 credits

Video Director & Editor

1

Assistant Editor

2

Game Capture Artist

7

Video Production Manager

1
EA Labels Launch Readiness 3 credits

Project Lead

1

Group manager

1

Support

1
Development QA 27 credits

Sr. QA Project Manager

1

Sr. QA Project Lead

1

QA Project Lead

1

Dev QA Lead

1

Core QA Lead

1

QA Analyst

18

Software Quality Engineer

2

Software Engineer in Test

2
North American Test Center (NATC) 43 credits

QA Manager

1

QA Project Manager

1

QA Project Lead

1

QA Lead

1

Staffing Coordinator

1

HR Specialist

1

QA Tester

37
Romania QA 8 credits

Sr. QA Project Lead

1

Lead

1

QA Tester

6
WW Compliance 1 credit

Compliance Director

1
EARS Compliance 4 credits

Compliance Manager

1

Compliance Portfolio Lead

1

Compliance Analyst II

1

Compliance Analyst I

1
NATC Compliance 9 credits

Sr. Compliance Project Lead

1

Compliance Analyst II

1

Compliance Analyst I

1

Compliance Tester

6
EA Certification 54 credits

Director

2

Management

4

Technical Operations

2

Project Manager

4

Submission Team

10

Age Ratings

2

Late Shift

5

Platform Supervisors

4

Project Leads

6

Test Team

15
EA Game Evaluation 7 credits

Head of Game Evaluation

1

Project Manager

2

Research Analysts

4
Customer Experience 40 credits

Product Manager

1

Project Manager

1

Help Center

4

Content

7

Answers HQ

4

Technology

7

Training

1

Game Experts

2

Process

2

Support

6

Live Ops

2

Analytics

3
Maxis DW/BI/Analytics team 10 credits

Sr. Director, Strategy & Operations

1

Producer

1

Development Director

1

Decision Support Analyst

1

Data Warehouse Architect

1

Software Engineer

1

Data Warehouse Specialist

1

Business Intelligence Specialist

1

Business Intelligence Engineer

1

Data Quality Analyst

1
EADP Infrastructure/Operations 17 credits

Program Manager

2

Sr. Architect, Online Integration

1

Sr. Business Consultant

1

Sr. Manager Service Operations

1

MySQL DBA

1

Unix Engineer

1

Cloud Engineer

4

Network Engineer

1

Monitoring Engineer

2

Systems Support Manager

1

Managed Hosting

2
EADP Systems Test 11 credits

Systems Test Director

1

System Test Head

1

Manager Test Engineering

1

Engineering Program Manager

1

Technical Director

1

Technical Lead

1

Software Engineer

5
Online Test Group 19 credits

QA Project Manager

1

QA Project Lead

1

Sr. QA Lead

1

QA Analyst II

1

QA Lead

1

Sr. QA Tester

1

OTG Core Team

13
WW Localization 1 credit

Internationalisation Project Manager

1
Europe Localization 32 credits

Multilingual Localisation Specialists

2

French Translation

1

Italian Translation

1

German Translation

1

Spanish Translation

1

Brazilian Portuguese Translation

1

Polish Translation

1

Russian Translation

1
SPL

Russian Translation

Dutch Translation

1

Czech Translation

1

Hungarian Translation

1

Danish Translation

1

Finnish Translation

1

Norwegian Translation

1

Swedish Translation

1

Localization Testing Project Manager

1

Head of Testing

1

Localization Tester

14
Asia Localization 7 credits

Localization Project Manager

1

Linguistic Testing Project Manager

1

Product Localization Manager

3
Spike Do

Product Localization Manager

Assistant Product Localization Manager

1
Yoo Bonam

Assistant Product Localization Manager

Project Coordinator

1
Localization Engineering 6 credits

Engineering Project Lead

1

Software Engineer

5
EA Legal Department 9 credits

IP Associate

1

Sr. Director IP

1

Sr. Privacy Policy Administrator

1

Senior Counsel IP

1

Sr. Licensing Associate

2

Legal Administrator

1

Patent Attorney

1

Licensing Associate

1
A very special thanks 1 credit

Thank you for the original inspiration for SimCity

1
Will Wright

Thank you for the original inspiration for SimCity

Thanks to everyone for their support 84 credits

Role not specified in source

84
SimCity Babies 12 credits

Role not specified in source

12

Publishing

Publishers

Companies responsible for publishing and distributing this release.

1

Music archive

SIMusics artists

Artists linked to tracks preserved in this game’s SIMusics album.

1
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Tracks and radio archive

Simusics

Tracks

28 tracks

SIMusics tracks
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1Theme songChris Tilton—SimCity (2013)No streaming links yet
2:56
2Building fondationChris TiltonPopSimCity (2013)No streaming links yet
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3Population 1Chris Tilton—SimCity (2013)No streaming links yet
6:21
4Clear Skyscrapers (Night Mix)Chris Tilton—SimCity (2013)No streaming links yet
6:12
5Living in infrastructure (Night Mix)Chris Tilton—SimCity (2013)No streaming links yet
5:48
6Town and Out (Night Mix)Chris Tilton—SimCity (2013)No streaming links yet
6:13
7Analytics (Night Mix)Chris Tilton—SimCity (2013)No streaming links yet
3:13
8Building the foundation (Night Mix)Chris Tilton—SimCity (2013)No streaming links yet
6:14
9The long construction (Night Mix)Chris Tilton—SimCity (2013)No streaming links yet
6:14
10Population-1 (Night Mix)Chris Tilton—SimCity (2013)No streaming links yet
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11Red City LightsChris Tilton—SimCity (2013)No streaming links yet
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12SimCity TrailerChris Tilton—SimCity (2013)No streaming links yet
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13All in a decade's workChris Tilton—SimCity (2013)No streaming links yet
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14A tale of Sim CitiesChris Tilton—SimCity (2013)No streaming links yet
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15Metropolis Made EasyChris Tilton—SimCity (2013)No streaming links yet
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16Urban SprawlerChris Tilton—SimCity (2013)No streaming links yet
6:11
17Clean Build of HealthChris Tilton—SimCity (2013)No streaming links yet
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18Disaster!Chris Tilton—SimCity (2013)No streaming links yet
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19Clear SkyscrapersChris Tilton—SimCity (2013)No streaming links yet
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20Living in infrastructureChris Tilton—SimCity (2013)No streaming links yet
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21Cautionary TaleChris Tilton—SimCity (2013)No streaming links yet
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22Town and OutChris Tilton—SimCity (2013)No streaming links yet
6:13
23AnalyticsChris Tilton—SimCity (2013)No streaming links yet
3:13
24The long constructionChris Tilton—SimCity (2013)No streaming links yet
6:11
25A tale of Sim Cities (Night Mix)Chris Tilton—SimCity (2013)No streaming links yet
6:46
26Urban Sprawler (Night Mix)Chris Tilton—SimCity (2013)No streaming links yet
6:12
27Metropolis made easy (Night Mix)Chris Tilton—SimCity (2013)No streaming links yet
5:21
28Good evening, and good nightChris Tilton—SimCity (2013)No streaming links yet
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