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Welcome to the wiki of Colombo Skylines; a simulation of the Colombo Municipal Council (CMC) area using Cities: Skylines.
If you're trying to understand how this works, we recommend reading through these entries in order. We've done our best to explain how we went about this project, how to get it set up on your own machine and what to configure.
Please note that you will need two things:
- Steam
- A copy of Cities Skylines bought via steam.
If you're new to what these two are, Steam is the game distribution service that allows you to not only acquire city skylines but also to install the various modifications and assets that we have made use of for this project. Cities Skylines is a 2015 city-building game developed by Colossal Order and published by Paradox Interactive. The game is a single-player open-ended city-building simulation. Players engage in urban planning by controlling zoning, road placement, taxation, public services, and public transportation of an area.
Our virtual city of Colombo is a save file that contains a map and citizens, buildings and the whole nine yards. It needs to be opened from city skylines to function.
This is a project by Watchdog Sri Lanka (team-watchdog). Watchdog is a multidisciplinary team of journalists, researchers and software engineers, operating under the Appendix umbrella. We hunt misinformation, investigate matters of public welfare, and build software tools.
We began in April 2019, days after the Easter Sunday bombings in Sri Lanka, as a group of concerned citizens trying to counter misinformation. We did this amidst government crackdowns on freedom of expression and mass hysteria caused by fake news and rumors, building a mobile app that was used by over 200,000 people to verify information and counteract rumors in their own networks.
We've been called an “open-source intelligence research collective”, and that's fairly accurate. We use a lot of OSINT techniques - a combination of data scraping, analysis of publicly available documents and datasets, paired with old-school boots-on-the-ground journalism.