Creating dioramas is such a relaxing activity that it has lived to see its representation in video games belonging to the group of productions described as cozy. Among them can be found a city builder strategy game titled Zlin City: Arch Moderna. The work in question was developed by independent Czech studio poliperfekt, which has in its portfolio such projects as Polylithic and FFF.
In Zlin City: Arch Moderna we view events from a bird's eye view. The production takes us to the Czech city of Zlín in the 1920s and 1930s. Entrepreneur Tom?š Bat'a turned it into a modern city and a pearl of ?modern architecture, while our task is to repeat this success.
To do so, we are laying out streets, laying tracks and erecting orchestrated buildings. We not only put the latter in the places we choose, but design them from scratch, deciding on their masses and heights. Issues such as the placement of windows or doors are handled automatically by the game.
In addition to buildings, we can also place other objects in Zlin. In addition, the title allows us to add various accents, such as benches and trash garbage cans, lamp posts, fountains or cars on the roads and trains on the tracks.
An encyclopedia is built into Zlin City: Arch Moderna, which allows us to learn more about the title's city, its inhabitants and the events that took place here over the decades.
The visuals of Zlin City: Arch Moderna consist of authentic models of buildings, vehicles and other elements of the environment, which were designed and painted by hand (and produced using 3D printing) and scanned using photogrammetry and transferred to the game.
The title runs on Unreal Engine 5, and the feeling of interacting with a real diorama is enhanced by the fact that the gameplay takes place on a large table, on which, in addition to the game world map, props such as spray paint are placed.
Platforms:
PC Windows
Developer: polyperfect
Publisher: polyperfect
Age restrictions: 3+
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System Requirements for Zlin City: Arch Moderna Video Game:
PC / Windows
Minimum System Requirements:
Intel Core i5-10400F 2.9 GHz / AMD Ryzen 5 3600 3.5 GHz, 16 GB RAM, graphic card 6 GB GeForce GTX 1660 / 8 GB Radeon RX 580, 20 GB HDD, Windows 10 64-bit.
Recommended System Requirements:
Intel Core i5-10400F 2.9 GHz / AMD Ryzen 5 3600 3.5 GHz, 16 GB RAM, graphic card 8 GB GeForce RTX 3060 Ti / 12 GB Radeon RX 6700 XT, 20 GB SSD, Windows 10 64-bit.