PolyCity
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- Monthly-chance tornadoes (after month 30 grace) carve a wide erratic path, flattening buildings into rubble; anchors stay consistent - 'Tornado disasters' toggle in menu settings, persisted - Help handbook documents the hazard and the rebuild loop - Engine suite grows to 45 assertions (spawn damage, event, anchors, suppression when disabled); soak keeps economy focus disaster-free
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# 🏙️ PolyCity — 3D City Builder
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**PolyCity** is a full-featured, free, open-source city-building simulation that runs
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entirely in your browser. Zone districts, wire up power, keep citizens happy, fight
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fires, balance the budget — and grow a tiny island outpost into a glittering megalopolis.
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Built with **Three.js + Vite**, zero runtime dependencies beyond the engine,
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procedural graphics (no asset downloads), and a simulation modeled on the classics.
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## ✨ Features
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| 🗺️ **Procedural islands** | Every new map is unique — winding rivers, beaches, forests |
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| 🏘️ **RCI zoning** | Residential / commercial / industrial with demand-driven growth |
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| ⚡ **Power grid** | Coal, solar & wind plants; brownouts when demand exceeds supply; wind turbines get +50 % on the coast |
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| 📈 **Land value & upgrades** | Parks, plazas, services and waterfronts raise land value; buildings grow through 3 density tiers |
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| 🚓 **City services** | Police, fire stations, hospitals and schools shape happiness and value |
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| 🔥 **Disasters** | Pollution-driven fires spread and are contained by fire coverage; mature cities face tornadoes that flatten whole streets (toggle in settings) |
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| 💰 **Budget & taxes** | Live tax slider, itemized income/upkeep ledger, debt warnings |
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| 🚗 **Traffic** | Animated cars flow along your road network |
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| 🌗 **Day/night cycle** | Windows light up as the sun sets |
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| 🎯 **Goals & milestones** | From *Outpost* to *Megalopolis*, with an onboarding quest list |
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| 💾 **Saves** | Autosave, 3 manual slots, JSON export/import |
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| 📱 **Touch support** | Paint with one finger, pinch-zoom, two-finger rotate |
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| 🔌 **PWA** | Installable, offline-capable via service worker |
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## 🎮 Controls
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| Action | Input |
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| Use tool / paint | **Left-drag** or one finger |
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| Orbit camera | **Right-drag** or two fingers |
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| Pan | **Middle-drag**, or `WASD` / arrow keys (`Shift` = faster) |
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| Zoom | Mouse wheel / pinch |
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| Pause · speed | `Space` · `1` `2` `3` |
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| Tools | `Q` inspect · `B` bulldoze · `R` road · `Z/X/C` zones |
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| Close / cancel | `Esc` · Help: `H` |
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### How to play in 30 seconds
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1. Drag an **L-shaped road** from the coast inland.
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2. Paint **homes** beside it, then some **shops** and **industry**.
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3. Drop a **coal plant** anywhere — power is a city-wide grid.
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4. Press ▶▶ and watch the neighborhood fill in.
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5. Add police/fire/parks to push land value past the upgrade thresholds.
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## 🚀 Run it locally
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```bash
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pnpm install
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pnpm dev # dev server → http://localhost:5173
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```
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## 📦 Production build
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```bash
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pnpm build # outputs static site to dist/
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pnpm preview # serve dist/ locally
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```
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The build is fully static and relative-path based — drop `dist/` on any host.
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## 🌍 Publish it
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**GitHub Pages** — this repo ships `.github/workflows/deploy.yml`; push to `main`
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and enable Pages (*Settings → Pages → Source: GitHub Actions*).
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**Netlify / Vercel / Cloudflare Pages** — import the repo, build command
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`pnpm build`, publish directory `dist`. A ready-made [`netlify.toml`](netlify.toml)
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is included.
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**itch.io** — zip the contents of `dist/` (keep `index.html` at the zip root),
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upload as an HTML5 game, check *sharedarraybuffer is not needed* and any
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resolution; the game auto-fits.
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## 🧪 Tests
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```bash
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node tests/engine.mjs # 40-assertion simulation suite (pure Node)
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node tests/soak.mjs # 40-year economy/growth/power soak test
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node tests/smoke.mjs # headless-browser end-to-end run
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node tests/capture.mjs # renders promo screenshots into shots/
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```
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## 🛠️ Tech notes
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- One shared `MeshStandardMaterial` + instanced meshes draw the entire city in a
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handful of draw calls; geometry is merged & vertex-colored at load time.
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- Simulation runs on typed arrays (64×64 tiles) with monthly ticks decoupled
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from rendering; speeds pause / 1× / 2× / 3×.
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- Adaptive resolution keeps frame times sane on weak GPUs.
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- All audio is synthesized WebAudio — no assets, no tracking, no network calls.
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## License
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[MIT](LICENSE) — build, remix, ship it. 🏗️
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