Building a City Builder

I love Sim City. Sim City 2000 was the first computer game I bought. $55 was a lot of money back in the 1990's (I should note the absolute cost of computer and video games has remained somewhat constant). SimCity 4 is considered the prime cute of the city builder genera to this day. Sim City Societies was a joke and Cities XL, well, is not doing so hot. So some of us enthusiasts got together to make 

And I am in charge of programming the terrain engine. It is at the point where I think it is good enough to share. (Textures are a work in process)

Here is how to run the thing.

* Install the panda3d runtime (3 MB)

* Head to this webpage to run the prototype in your web browser.

Refresh this webpage and you should see the demo box below. It will warn you that this program is self signed (I made it, it is me! It doesn't have any viruses I promise!), accept the certificate and play away. Right mouse button pans the camera, middle rotates, and it is buggy as all hell.

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