SomaSim

About

Chicago-based independent video game developer and publisher founded in 2013 by Robert Zubek (lead software engineer, previously a principal engineer at Zynga on CityVille and FarmVille 2) and Matthew Viglione (lead designer, formerly communications director at Catholic Charities in San Francisco). The studio states plainly that it exists to make more simulation games, and every title it has published is a management or economic simulation. The catalogue runs from the California Gold Rush city-builder 1849 (May 2014, plus the Nevada Silver expansion that September) to the skyscraper constructi…