In Cities: Skylines, you'll be in charge of designing and managing your own city. Cities:Skylines is similar to SimCity in that you are building and managing your own city, but it is much more complex. You should expect to start over on your city at least once or twice during the ten days of your project. I also highly recommend reading the helpful popups carefully as you first begin building your city.
Helpful Tutorials
Give yourself a chance to try out Cities:Skylines before you resort to watching these tutorials. If you are feeling yourself being frustrated, check out some of the guides below for some assistance in getting your city up and running.
Video Tutorials
(watch in order)
Text-Based Guides
Cities:Skylines 101 (text only tips)
Beginner Tips and Tricks Guide (text + pictures)
Documenting Your Work
Press the END key to take a screenshot of the entire screen in Cities:Skylines. Make sure you've zoomed in enough so that you are capturing only the parts you want in your picture. Once you've pressed the END key, the location of the screenshot will flash on the screen briefly. I've added a shortcut to this folder on the desktop.
Largest Cities
Check out all of the great cities created in our STEAM lab with Cities:Skylines. If you've been working on a city, make sure to get a final image of your work to add to our portfolio. Due to the difficult nature of this simulator, we'll be including ALL cities in our portfolio to share.