I have this idea for a city builder game where all the buildings are either brutalist or built like a small town in 1870s Illinois and every building is named like its an old lady and every transport vehicle is an old man
You get points along an Axis towards either Midwestern Socialism or Eastern European Socialism depending on which style of buildings you build, this affects nothing about the gameplay except for what animals appear in the back ground and what flags are in the public park
You start by building the capital city of the Provence or state. And over time you can build and run up to 6 towns at a time and each one is based around a different resource, ie: energy, corn, timber, ect. This allows you to build up complex factory type cities as you ship objects between the factories/refineries, the citizens in the capital and the small resource towns
You have to keep your citizens happy or else they will overthrow you. You can provide happiness points by building amenities like shops, parks and roller rinks. The happiness points are doubled if a citizen lives within walking distance of the amenity, multiple by 1.5 if they can access it via transit in under a half hour and halved if they have to drive over a half hour to reach an amenity
Shops have to be stocked, hence the need for factories, for example a book store requires a lumber mill and a paper mill to make the books in one town which would be the timber town and a university in another to get new books written because otherwise overtime the happiness generated by the bookstore will decrease.
