Spot on!<p>I wonder if the developers had set their mind on building a city builder game before SimCity&#x27;s non-success or did they realize the market gap and go for it reactively.<p>They already had a pretty decent city and traffic simulation engine in their earlier Cities in Motion games (which I didn&#x27;t like nearly as much, perhaps because I was really bad at it). So it&#x27;s feasible (but still awe-inspiring) if they put Skylines together in that timeframe.