Please, add a retro city

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Hi I was thinking about having a Retro city with arcades, carousel, drive-in theater, dinners, ramen shop, cyber cafe,a board games shop, jazz club, and a classic department store with rooftop sign, low apartment blocks, row houses, and apartment-above-shops. Pocket parks and classic payphones and clasic car rally or exhibition.

Careers at the small factory and the old tram depot. Part time waiters or cooks, employees at the arcade.

Visual aspects:

  1. Architecture: low-rise art-deco and mid-century modern — rounded corners, awnings, glass-block windows, chrome trim. Mix clean pastel facades with weathered brick.
  2. Signage: large neon tubing, reverse-lit signs, marquee bulbs, painted billboards. Allow flicker and partial outages for atmosphere.
  3. Street furniture: chrome benches, diner signage, pastel mailboxes, 1950s streetlamps, payphones, soda machines.
  4. Vehicles: classic sedans, wood-panel wagons, scooters. Option: daytime “classic” car density slider.
  5. Materials & textures: glossy diner chrome, terrazzo floors, checkerboard tiles, enamel signs, and slightly grainy film grain overlay for camera filter.

What do you think? Would you like it or you have another idea?

I would love this city and I would call it Rosewood Junction or Mapleford

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A retro city would be so epic for my Zois to visit and/or live in.

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I know, now I’m thinking about these wall phones, old tv, maybe even video game console, also a skating rink and things like that

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I would really love a 30s - 50s city. Note that this also requires proper clothing. In a 30s - 50s city, you want zois to dress like in the golden age Hollywood movies.

And, of course: no mobile phones nor internet in that city, please!!! Oh, how I hate smartphones :smile:

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Due to Inzoi focussing on unique international locations your idea would be perfect for a map inspired by Cuba. Due to trade embargos Cuba has allot of older technology still in use. It’ll be contemporary with retro elements.

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I agree with you about smartphones! But that begs the question of how to do some of the things the phone does in-game right now. Perhaps jobs and things like that can be replaced with a newspaper, and some other things can be replaced with mail or a phone call?

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Yes. If there’s one thing I don’t like in inzoi, it would be the smartphone UI that is set as the foundation of the game, like if everything in life is a phone app. It’s trendy but I think it won’t age well.

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I sort of agree with this. I’m so tired of my phone in real life. It would be nice if I didn’t have to use it all the time in a game too.

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This needs more attention! A retro world would be an amazing addition.

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oh yes I completely agree with you.

Old cafes on the street side of the road.
Maybe in the style of Paris.

Retro diner
with jukebox

Retro tram
Cobblestone streets
Retro lampposts and phone booths

Bicycle routes

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I think it would be wonderful if they gave us the chance to play inZOI in other eras, not just the current one. But I don’t think they’ll do it without a DLC. For me, for example, I wouldn’t mind something Victorian or medieval :heart:

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Once/if a Retro-Cuban or Classical Paris type of city is implemented, I would love to see a Y2K/Grafittipunk Shibuya-like city where the smartphone is present but toned down into a device similar to 2000s Japanese feature phones, Pokédex or Digivice or Tamagotchi, something like the Cybiko or whatever it was that had proprietary RF communication and was marketed at teenagers whose parents couldn’t afford (or were resistant to adopting) mobile phones before ~2012 (yes, it took that long for kids to have smartphones here) and the beginning of contract-funded phones.

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