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City Island - Building Tycoon - Citybuilding Sim

Submitted by , 22 February, 2016
Last updated on 29 April, 2021
Category
Games

Description of App

If you liked the early Sim City games, you will definitely love this 'sim city style' game!
In City Island you will build houses for your citizens, decorations and community buildings to make them happy, and create jobs so you can earn money from your happy citizens.
Build a business empire with a choice of 85+ unique buildings, like hotels, cinema's, offices, bakeries, restaurants, and even oil platforms.
Catch some fish with your boats, make people happy by building parks, schools, churches, libraries, museums, and even a nice ferris wheel.
It is all about balance in this city game: happy people attract more citizens, who will need residences and jobs.

** Features **
- FREE game
- HIGH QUALITY graphics
- Intuitive gameplay
- 85 Unique buildings (residential, commercial, community, decoration)
- Attract citizens with parks, trees, and community buildings
- Build residences for your citizens
- Collect profit from your commercial buildings
- Upgrade your buildings
- Collect XP and level up to unlock new buildings
- Collect dozens of REWARDS while playing
- Expand your city to create more room for constructing more buildings, and making your city bigger and bigger
- Speed up construction/upgrade time
- Help your citizens
- Find pirate chests around your island, containing cash or gold
- Enter friend codes and gift codes to receive cash and gold
- The "City Advisor" will tell you what is needed in your city
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Version

1.5.1

Free or Paid

Free

Apple Watch Support

Not Known

Device(s) App Was Tested On

iPhone

iOS Version

9.2.1

Accessibility Comments

I can get to the part of the tutorial where you have to build an animal farm but when it asks you to click on the building to get more information about it, this is where the accessibility needs working on. They're willing to do this though if they get enough positive feedback from all of us and suggestions.

VoiceOver Performance

VoiceOver reads most page elements.

Button Labeling

Few buttons are clearly labeled.

Usability

There are some accessibility issues with this app, but it can still be used if you are willing to tolerate these issues and learn how to work around them.

Other Comments

This game is lots of fun and it would be more so when they make it more accessible. Marleen Zeeman of http://sparklingsociety.net says she'll push to make the game accessible for us if we give her enough positive feedback and suggestions for improvements

App Store Link

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/city-island-builder-tycoon/id684194665?mt=8

Developer's Website

http://sparklingsociety.net

Recommendations

5 people have recommended this app

Most recently recommended by Jen 1 year 11 months ago

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Comments

game sounds good

By Ornella

7 years 1 month ago

the game sounds nice and I will write the developer about trying to make the game more accessible to us.

I always loved Sim City and

By Kristen

7 years 1 month ago

I always loved Sim City and the like when I could still see and have been looking in vain for an accessible game like this. Still haven't found one.

It's nice to see this one at least has the beginnings of potential for accessibility with actual buttons that are actionable and the ability to navigate the screen by swiping. (Most other games in this genre are completely inaccessible.)

I'm not sure if I have enough knowledge on the inner workings of IOS code to give them pointers on how to make it accessible. I may send them a generic request for accessibility, though. From the looks of it it just requires better button labeling, labels for some of the text values on the screen and a better order on which the elements cycle when you swipe through them (also an ability to perhaps isolate focus on the Tutorial popups when they're pen or when you're switching between tabs?) Not sure how easy this would be to implement - I haven't coded in IOS since before they came out with the Swift coding language.

Has anyone sent them Apple's documentation on creating accessible apps?

Also there would have to be a way to 'auto-place' buildings if there isn't already, now that I think on it. Solara had something like this - it would just stick the new building in the closest empty spot with space.

I don't suppose anyone has gotten far enough to build anything yet?

i only got to

By Ornella

7 years 1 month ago

i only got to the farm but i couldn't do nothing after that

Hi, I am in the tutorial.

By Paige

7 years 1 month ago

Hi, I am in the tutorial. How do you connect the roads to the small house?

connecting the roads to the house

By Unregistered User (not verified)

7 years 1 month ago

I believe you have to press the zoom button and then actually double tap the area where it says build roads by tapping the grid. I think this'll build the roads. Try that and let me know. And in answer to the other user who spoke of the guide for developers to make their apps accessible on here? by all means. If you can find it on here, please for heaven's sake send it to marleen using the email address provided. If that isn't motivation enough I don't know what is other than sending her plenty of email support letting her know that we all want this game to be made accessible. Have a wonderful day and I look forward to hearing what else you have to say as does Marleen I'm sure.

Hi, I got a sighted person to

By Paige

7 years ago

Hi, I got a sighted person to click on the building and from there the app is completely inaccessible maybe the developer will be interested in making the rest of the app accessible

If it is only accessible for

By Rashad

7 years ago

If it is only accessible for the first few levels, shouldn't the accessibility rating be changed.

I hope this happens!

By JeffB

6 years 12 months ago

I emailed them although I'm not sure if I sent the email to the right address. Here's hoping!

I also emailed them

By TJT 2001

6 years 12 months ago

I also emailed them. They took over a week to respond and told me that accessibility was not a high priority.

could someone

By Ornella

6 years 11 months ago

could someone post a link for the developer of this particular game? I visited the site and I don't think I was getting the link for this game to write to the developers. They did update this game but they did not fix the accisibility issues. They have other games on the site but I wasn't finding the link for this one. Thanks

How's the accessibility now a days?

By Cody_91

6 years 10 months ago

I was thinking about grabbing this. Is it worth it?

No

By Rashad

6 years 10 months ago

In reply to How's the accessibility now a days? by Cody_91

It's unplayable, except for the first bit that you can complete in 5 minutes.

Has anyone tried

By Ornella

5 years 3 months ago

Has anyone gone back to this game and tried it? I played it with out the tutorial and I was able to accomplish some more stuff except for the roads and upgrades.

several years later

By SilverMoon

5 years 2 months ago

So it's been several years since the last post. Does anyone have any accessibility update on this?

Still, no changes, at least in my opinion.

By DrummerGuy

5 years 2 months ago

Last time I tried this game you still could not build roads and things like that. So, at least, as far as I understand, nothing has changed.

Sad face!!!

By SilverMoon

5 years 2 months ago

yeah, I didn't think so, just because I did try it and it didn't go too well. But I thought maybe it was me, since I wasn't familiar with the game, or really anything.

Disappointed

By Megan

4 years 11 months ago

I was hoping they would have improved this. While I can't say if they have since I just downloaded it, I cannot even build a road in the tutorial, and I'm not really sure how I built the small house. I tried several times and it just ended up working somehow, but I don't think I could repeat it. What a bummer. I haven't found any accessible Sim City or Farmville sort of game, and I've always wished I could play one.

Don't see progress

By blusword

4 years 11 months ago

I had contacted this developer over two years ago about accessibility. She said she had someone in Europe who was supposedly willing to help her but they were Knochel. I don't know enough about coding for iOS either to give her any advice as to what to do.
I just downloaded the game and it was a waste of my time. Went through that to Torio and not able to build the road either. Somehow managed to put the house God knows where in the grid. This game needs work.
I wish someone who had accessibility knowledge would be able to get in touch with this developer and help this process happen. I unfortunately don't know how to do that at this time. G
It's definitely a nice game and has great potential. I liked the way Solaris told you how bigger space you needed for XYZ shop and you put it in the place where you wanted it. It was very cool how they made that possible. She needs to do that with that game. She could also take a page out of lords and nights for the map as well and somehow label stuff so that you know where you're putting it. Well that's all I've got to add here.

Accessibility improvements?

By Daniella

1 year 11 months ago

Hi, I’m going to download this game now and retest the accessibility of it as it’s been some years since I tried it and now we have screen recognition I’ll let you guys know if anything changes with it.

placing

By Cornettoking

1 year 11 months ago

I have a question: Didn't you have to place buildings and other stuff in Solara too? How did that game do it? I think that could be a way for this game to handle it, too.

Not overly accessible

By Daniella

1 year 10 months ago

I was able to build a house somehow using Screen recognition but I can't connect the roads, can anyone else figure out how to connect roads and build them using voice over?

Appears to be abandoned by the developer

By al-Salil

1 year 10 months ago

I've not tried this game and after reading the comments I'm not going to either.
The fact is that this app has not been updated since Nov 30, 2016 and that tells me that the dev have lost interest in it somehow.

City Island

By jacob

1 year 2 months ago

I can’t connect the roads either and when you go to let your storage space it just empty empty empty but I can’t do the upgrading buildings with voiceover it’s very hard some of it it’s not accessible

even with screen recognition?

By Karina Velazquez

1 year 2 months ago

hi, I have been willing for a sim game since simtower but it seems this game is not the one, even though, has anybody tried with the screen recognition if helps in any way?

How about trying something more accessible?

By DMNagel

1 year 2 months ago

This thing is obviously out of date, inaccessible and overrated. Try CTMayor instead. It is no less sophisticated, but at least it's a game that is still being worked on. Furthermore, it's 100% free and the developer is a friendly fellow, actively engaging in discussions with our community, responding to our suggestions and willing to make improvements wherever possible.
https://apps.apple.com/za/app/ctmayor-city-simulation/id1533354734

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