“We’ve made an asset editor and the players can import their own assets into the game, and we’re looking forward to seeing the different styles of buildings the community will create,” says Hallikainen. What’s more, players can bring their own structures and objects into the gameworld. When zoning neighborhoods, for instance, you can either employ the fill tool to designate a large section as a zone type, or zoom in to paint a tiny residential square inside a larger industrial area. There are virtually no restrictions on where players can place structures, and there are tools for every job-a litany of different brush sizes and types for every purpose. Indeed, Skylines is its most ambitious attempt to date. “The idea has always been very clear in our heads, and I believe achieved in the development of Cities: Skylines.” “We’re huge fans of the genre,” says Hallikainen. This is not her first time at the rodeo: Colossal Order was founded on the idea of making a “city builder” in the style of classics like SimCity, and the studio already has two city builders under its belt, in the form of Cities in Motion and its sequel. We try to provide a blank canvas for the players to start building their own cities,” says Colossal Order’s CEO Mariina Hallikainen.
