CityLife v0.3 — a brand-new river city, and people in the streets 🌆

CityLife has a new home. The old grid of blocks is gone: version 0.3 runs on a whole new city — a river with lifting bridges, a harbour with a container ship, a cathedral, a park with a fountain, a beach with a pier — and, for the first time, the streets are alive.
✨ What's new
  • 🌉 A new city. Avenues with real sidewalks, crosswalks, traffic lights, parked cars along the kerb, and low-poly trees that fade in and out as you move.
  • 🚶 People in the streets. Citizens commute (a 30-minute trip), run errands and go for walks. They walk at a normal pace, dodge each other, and wear work clothes or going-out clothes depending on why they're out. Their status reads "walking in street".
  • 🤝 Stop anyone and talk. Talk to a pedestrian and they walk up to you and face you. Their routine pauses while you talk and picks up where it left off.
  • 📱 Ask for a phone number. If it goes well, the contact lands on your phone. "Where do you work?" gets a real answer with their real job and place.
  • 💬 More to say. About twenty new Social and Romantic actions that unlock as your relationship grows, and extra actions when someone is expecting.
  • ❓ They ask you things. When you open a conversation, in the middle and as you leave, people ask you a question. Your answer changes how they feel about you, their mood, their traits and their thoughts.
  • 🎭 Twenty personalities. Answers now sound like the person: shy, sarcastic, charming, cold, romantic… with their own openers, closers and a memory so they don't repeat themselves.
  • 🎨 Cartoon portraits. Turn on cartoon mode and every portrait and scene is drawn in a cartoon style by your local image engine.
  • 🌃 A living night. Windows light up at random, each one changes on its own every few hours, and after midnight about 90% of them go dark.
🛠️ Fixed
  • Typing something like "Suggest cheating in secret" no longer opens the Inheritance card — keywords now match whole words only.
  • A word like "something" is no longer read as a drug.
  • The "responder" line is in English again.
  • Saves. The portable build used to lose the world and your save every time it started. It now keeps everything in a CityLife-game folder next to the .exe.
⏱️ Good to know
  • The first launch builds a brand-new city and takes several minutes. After that it's instant.
  • The AI image engine is still optional and still not bundled: it installs on request, with your own checkpoint. The game runs fine without it.
  • CityLife 0.3 uses port 3031 and its own settings folder, so it can run next to older versions.
  • Saves from older versions don't carry over: the city is different.
🙏 Thank you
Thanks for playing, testing and writing in. Next up: traffic that really parks, people in the parks, and more things to do in the new city.
— EDOBGames