tower-together

This is the story of building https://towers.world, a ~perfect, tick-for-tick reproduction of 1993 game SimTower. I spent weeks reverse-engineering the original EXE and writing up a detailed spec of how the simulation actually works under the hood — population flow, elevator AI, the whole star-rating system. The specs are all on GitHub if you want to read them: https://github.com/phulin/tower-together/tree/main/specs It's also collaborative. Multiple players can connect to the same tower, the simulation keeps running as long as anyone's connected, and build actions sync across clients in real time. Because I rebuilt the UI, I could add features like shift-click to build grids of rooms - instead of painstakingly clicking to build rows of offices and hotels, shift-click allows a 10-floor grid to be built all at once. The game runs on Cloudf