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Micropolis traces a line from Will Wright's SimCity (1989) through multiple platform ports, multiplayer experiments, and educational adaptations. Don Hopkins ported SimCity to Unix, built multiplayer SimCityNet (demoed at ACM InterCHI '93 in Amsterdam), and eventually convinced Electronic Arts to release the source code under GPL-3 for the One Laptop Per Child project in 2008.
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The name "Micropolis" was the original working title Will Wright suggested. EA granted the right to use the trademark "SimCity" only if the game passed their QA process -- and it was quite an ordeal hand-holding their QA department through running Linux in a VM on Windows to test it. Never wanting to go through that ever again, Don asked Will for an alternative name, and he recommended its original working title. Please call this game Micropolis, not SimCity, or [EA's lawyers](https://www.ea.com/legal/online-terms-of-service) may come knocking. As Jeff Braun (CEO of Maxis) once explained: Toho sued Maxis $50k over magazine reviewers calling the in-game monster "Godzilla" even though Maxis never used the name. And unlike Toho, EA might not be so friendly about it.
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The name "Micropolis" was the original working title Will Wright suggested. EA granted the right to use the trademark "SimCity" only if the game passed their QA process -- and it was quite an ordeal hand-holding their QA department through running Linux in a VM on Windows to test it. Never wanting to go through that ever again, Don asked Will for an alternative name, and he recommended its original working title. Please call this game Micropolis, not SimCity, or EA's lawyers may come knocking. As Jeff Braun (CEO of Maxis) once explained: Toho sued Maxis $50k over magazine reviewers calling the in-game monster "Godzilla" even though Maxis never used the name. And unlike Toho, EA might not be so friendly about it.
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At the time, "Micropolis" was also the name of a hard disk drive manufacturer. They eventually changed names and went out of business, but the company was recently restructured as [Micropolis GmbH](https://www.micropolis.com). The owner is an old school hacker who was generous enough to grant the [Micropolis Public Name License](MicropolisPublicNameLicense.md), which allows the game to use the name Micropolis under reasonable conditions. Many thanks to Micropolis GmbH for this courtesy -- check out their [BBS primer](https://www.micropolis.com/micropolis-bbs-primer), [robotics primer](https://www.micropolis.com/micropolis-robotics-primer), and [data storage primer](https://www.micropolis.com/micropolis-data-storage-primer).
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