Released in 2015 and published by Paradox Interactive, Cities: Skylines is an open-ended city-building simulator where players are responsible for many aspects of modern urban planning. In this article, we'll take a look at the traffic and navigation systems that run in every city, how citizens go about their day-to-day routine and how developers Colossal Order sought to address the traffic jams that can easily emerge. Let's take a look at a fantastic example of this found in the popular city-building simulator Cities: Skylines.

An AI tool or system can be running in plain sight, providing a critical element of the game that players are largely unaware of until it starts to go wrong. Quite often artificial intelligence is in control of so many elements of our favourite video games, but we seldom take notice and take it for granted.

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