City building. How to create a rich and believable setting for videogame's cities

Abstract

A compendium of diverse principles with which to generate a methodology for creating virtual cities that feel alive, interesting and believable. Plus a prototype which supports the compendium and demonstrates the effectiveness of such principles through playtesting sessions. OBJECTIVES: To gather, synthetize and analyze papers and literature To stablish core principles for city building. To design, prototype and iterate a city.