Skylines (series)

Skylines is a open-ended city-building video game series created and designed by Ian Hawke and Aaron Lam. The first game in the series, Skylines: The City Simulation Game was published by Knoxdev in 1984 for TS-OS.

In the game, the player develops a city from a patch of undeveloped land. The player controls where to place development zones, infrastructure like roads and power plants, landmarks, and public services such as schools, parks, hospitals and fire stations. The player also determines the tax rate, the budget, and social policy. The city is populated by citizens, simulated persons, who live in the city created by the player. The three development zone types are the major areas in which citizens inhabit: residential zones for houses and apartment buildings; commercial zones for shops and offices; industrial zone for factories, warehouses, laboratories and farms.

Because Skylines was exclusive to Theorysonic computers, the game led to creation of clones, most notably SimCity.