Take a quick 60-second guided tour of the interface?
Start your drill
Name yourself and your city. Each size is a finished town on a street grid. Bigger maps have more developed buildings to flatten with disasters before the clock runs out.
Controls
Build — Left click / Tap
Look around — Right drag / one-finger drag
Pan — Ctrl + right drag / two-finger drag
Zoom — Scroll / pinch
Classroom SimCity v1.2
Type help for commands
Strategy Tips
Balance RCI zones — residents need jobs and shops nearby.
Connect power plants to zones with power lines.
Roads must touch zone edges for development.
Spread zones to reduce disaster damage concentration.
Trade-off: industrial growth vs. resilience and sustainability.
Harm index is 0–100 (higher is worse). It rises with people killed, injuries, damaged zones, destroyed roads, and disaster cost.
Disasters can strike at random during a session, or you can trigger one from the Disaster panel. Every event is listed in the disaster log.
Press for a personalized planning tip.
Settings
When enabled, you see a welcome prompt each visit until you finish or skip the tour. Use Replay Guided Tour anytime.
City
Cities download as a .json file. A short code like X12345 cannot hold a 16×16 map, and it would be guessable. A restore slip (s123456-K7M2) is a random token stored on the server for your HSU ID only. There is no autosave. Importing someone else’s file is practice only and will not update the leaderboard. The class timer always keeps wall-clock time.