---
name: "micropolis"
section: "6"
platform: "linux"
package: "micropolis"
version: "0.0.20071228-10"
release: "Debian 12 (Bookworm)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/micropolis"
---

# micropolis(6)

a real-time city management simulator

## NAME

Micropolis - a real-time city management simulator

## SYNOPSIS

**micropolis** \[*OPTION...*\]

## DESCRIPTION

This game simulates building and managing a whole city. The goal of Micropolis is to build and design a city. The player can mark land as being zoned as commercial, industrial, or residential, add buildings, change the tax rate, build a power grid, build transportation systems and many other actions in order to enhance the city.

## OPTIONS

- **-c**

  colormap mode: create own X11 colormap on 8 bit screens

- **-g**

  generate random map and start playing

- **-l \[number\|name\]**

  choose a level. Game levels include: 1: Easy, 2: Medium, 3: Hard

- **-m**

  multi player mode: enable adding multiple players via X11

- **-s \[number\|name\]**

  choose a scenario. Scenarios include: 1: Dullsville, 2: San\_Francisco, 3: Hamburg, 4: Bern, 5: Tokyo, 6: Detroit, 7: Boston, 8: Rio\_de\_Janeiro

- **-S**

  Sugar mode: enable OLPC Sugar user interface integration

- **-t**

  tty mode: interactive TCL session on stdin/stdout

- **-w**

  wire mode: use X11 networking without shared memory