• RamaCity expands target group for casual games
• Open Beta to begin in a few weeks
Building fun in your browser: Bigpoint makes its first casual game targeted specifically towards men – RamaCity. In RamaCity, building your dream city is just the beginning: Starting off small with a few trailer homes, players slowly expand their cities, eventually turning them into booming urban metropolises. Gamers will not only have a good time building homes in RamaCity, they’ll be able to bring their cities to life with city planning, daily quests and social game functions, with adorable, fun-loving citizens. New information and new game artwork is already up on the official website to whet your appetite in the run-up to the official Open Beta launch.
“Games like RamaCity are closing the gap between gaming newcomers and seasoned gaming veterans,” says Tobias Reisberger, Chief Games Officer at Bigpoint. “After the success of Farmerama and Zoomumba, RamaCity is our chance to incorporate male target audiences into our casual game portfolio and combine visually stunning graphics and sophisticated gameplay with a casual game that is easy to start playing.”
New gameplay details
Reciprocity is the golden rule in RamaCity: Players can send their citizens to visit their friends’ urban centers in order to help them out by upgrading their buildings and factories. Interaction with others and sociability are key in RamaCity if players want to become successful town mayors.
But that’s not all that awaits RamaCity players, there are plenty of other challenges to tackle in their cities. Players will have to properly manage the most important resource, energy, to increase the productivity of their companies, create new jobs for the citizens known as the Urbis, and design a functional infrastructure to meet their needs. To do it right, they’ll have to pick out the best spot for factories and housing units. If a residential neighborhood is placed too close to a factory or power plant, the Urbis won’t feel at home and will decrease in performance, resulting in less money for all RamaCity players. Environmental protection will also play a part of everyday life, as players can choose to extract more energy from solar power than with a smoky coal factory.
The launch of the free-to-play browser game RamaCity is planned for Spring 2011. Inspiring urban designers can find more information about the game on the official website: www.ramacity.com.
