Balance the books in this online browser game - As mayor of your growing city, you must balance its financial policies to ensure essential infrastructure is in place, with the aesthetic and social needs of the citizens in this fun browser game at http://www.risingcities.co.uk/.

1. Build and manage your own city with Bigpoint
Many of us claim to have the answer to running our local town councils, counties and the
country more efficiently, but in practice how many of us would last more than a few days?
Managing a single town can be complicated enough, but overseeing the development and
management of a growing city is a task in a different league. But now online gamers from all
over the world are getting a chance to experience something of what it is like to be a Mayor
of a bustling metropolis like New York or London, although I doubt most of them will end up
like Boris Johnson. The browser game is called Rising Cities and is free to play on
www.bigpoint.com. Thankfully for
members of the public everywhere,
players will be in charge of virtual cities
online and not real ones!
All this has been made possible thanks
to one of the latest free online games
from developer Bigpoint. It has already
attracted millions of players worldwide. If
players prove successful and their city
grows, without the population becoming too disgruntled, then so too does their mayoral
standing, both as part of the game and as part of the gaming community. This can be quite a
challenge; just as in real life it is very difficult to keep everyone in a huge city particularly
happy and it is no different, even in a
virtual online game world.
The other main challenges that
players face in their virtual mayoral
offices, apart from the fairly major
things like not going bankrupt, is
keeping everything running smoothly
and efficiently whilst keeping their
citizens healthy, in work and
entertained; all of which as to be achieved through the popularity killer that is taxation. As
cities grow throughout this virtual world players will come to interact with each other and
each other’s cities, trading and developing industries and transport links. Some gamers may
choose to work together in this environment and form a well-run world, others may go all out
for personal mayoral glory in this fun and challenging online game.