abstreet/docs/TODO_game.md

TODO - Core gameplay

• Example use cases

  • montlake/520 turn restrictions with pedestrian scramble
    • need intersection merging before this is understandable
  • close interior neighborhoods to most cars (except for src/dst), see how traffic restricted to arterials would work
    • puzzle: with only X miles of retained road, where would you leave them? what roads would go away?
    • parking garages on the edges of neighborhoods?
  • create a bike network with minimal hills, dedicated roads, minimal crossings

• charm

  • name agents, with some good names scattered in (Dustin Carlino, Dustin Bikelino, Dustin Buslino...)
  • music / sound effects
    • as you zoom in, overhear conversations and such
  • some buildings could have extra detail
  • zoom in too much, what might you see? ;)
  • loading screen: snakey cars
  • game intro/backstory: history of seattle urban planning
  • player context: a drone. people will look up eventually.

Tutorial

• parking vs bus tutorial level

  • big vertical road. some neighborhoods off to the side. everyone trying to go nrth or south. one driving, one parkign lane. a bus that makes a loop. some horizontal roads connected to borders that force the vertical road to not be fast. just make a dedicated bus lane! oops,except some of the bus stops are at narrow places, so traffic has to slow down anyway for the bus. maybe there's a bypass road through a neighborhood?

• introduce elements gradually... fix a silly traffic signal with just cars, then add peds and bikes...

• spawn cars somewhere

• run sim, pause, change speed, reset

More things to simulate

• Light rail and downtown bus tunnel
• seed parked cars in neighborhood with no owner or a far-away owner, to model reasonable starting state
• outgoing border nodes can throttle to simulate traffic downstream