Cities Unlimited is the latest city-building game, currently being developed by Monte Cristo Games. The company has been listening closely to discussions within the official site’s forums at CU Planet and making great progress with their development. At this stage, most of the key decisions for the general direction of the game will have been made, and many of the game’s features are starting to take shape, as displayed by their blog updates.

The site holds regular polls to gauge opinions on potential aspects and ideas for city-building games, and determine the importance of different features to the fans. Monte Cristo’s approach to the development of Cities Unlimited, has already created a large potential fanbase, before the game has even been fully developed. With the projected release date expected to be towards the end of 2008, there is still time to influence how much attention is paid to the different aspects within the game and further publicise the desires of us, the city-building fans.

Cities Unlimited “Conceptual” articles, or CUC articles, have also been created by myself to coherently bring together the many different ideas posted by a range of members at different city-building fan sites. These ideas were transformed into a range of individual articles with each covering all suggestions for each new proposed feature or improvement.

I have now set up some webpages with online polls/surveys for voting on the importance of general ideas and improvements for the city-building genre. Each survey shouldn’t take more than a few moments for visitors to complete.

The Unofficial Cities Unlimited Online Surveys

All of the questions relate to ideas and improvements to city-building games which were not part of SimCity 4. Help influence Monte Cristo’s decisions through the remainder of the development process, by contributing to the voting on the Unofficial CU Surveys. These polls will also help determine what features should take priority in development of the initial game release, and which ideas that are ranked lower in popularity could be developed for future Expansion Packs. Cities Unlimited is on its way to the forefront of realistic city-building simulation games. Help fuel the process and make your voice heard!