At New York Comic Con on Thursday, Librande talked about Cities of Tomorrow, a $30 expansion releasing Nov. As graphics and mechanics have improved through several iterations of the game, the premise has pretty much stayed the same. Librande is the lead designer on SimCity, the decades-old town-building simulator, casts the player as mayor of a growing metropolis. But his future was going to be different. When lead game designer Stone Librande decided to build the future, he found places for inspiration: The grimy, pollution-choked cityscape of Blade Runner, the social philosophy of Pixar's Wall-E, and Gene Roddenberry's utopian dream in Star Trek.
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