Welcome to Feta: Skylines

What if the thought process behind building cities was the same as assembling a feta-based salad? This is founding epiphany behind Feta: Skylines, a game which reimagines the far too traditionnal mechanics of salad-makers and attempts to apply them to the sandbox-style gameplay of city-builders.

And sprinkles a little bit of Erik Satie on the top just for the mood setting (I found making feta salads whilst listening to classical music immensely increased its quality, but that may just be a personnal thing).

The background of this page is a little sneak peak into the hellish world of feta suburbs. You were warned.

Controls

Gameplay video

Original Idea

This game was made as part of my first university assignment (Goldsmiths, London). The idea was to find a meme or short video and create a playable experience (using basic Unity3d geometrical shapes and textures).

Well, I was making a feta salad one night and I found this amazing meme of Mark Zuckerberg presenting Meta, only he was holding a massive block of feta in his hands and the company logo behind him was now Feta. This made me laugh a lot, and I remembered that my local grocery store sold fresh feta, which they stacked on top of each other.

And it hit me: stacks... feta... blocks... TOWERS? Thus was born Feta: Skylines, where towers are made of cheese, roads are slices of bread and trees are made of cucumbers. Enjoy.

(Reference --> https://twitter.com/IamHappyToast/status/1453814065072152583)

Disclaimers

You might be thinking, this is what a good feta salad should look like:

So... where are the olives in the game? Or the tomatoes?

Unfortunately, budget restrictions and upper management shenanigans forced the developper's hands here. Something about the CEO being allergic to tomatoes and having a phobia of olives? Your guess is a good as mine. If you want to yell at them, you can mail them (that person is me - yell at me).

Also...

This is my first ever video game (I've been learning Unity for less than 6 weeks), which means a couple of things:

1. You might will encounter bugs. These can include audio levels not being normalized, lighting issues, behavioural inconsistencies, potential NASA-hacking, occasional city-wide power outages
2. It's janky as hell. Sorry in advance, and please be patient
3. I learned a lot in the process of making this. If I were to do it all again from scratch, I would hope it woud be of much better quality

Still, I am quite proud of my work overall and I hope you will have a not-so-unpleasant experience playing Feta: Skylines. If you have any feedback to give me, you can leave a comment below, answer through this form (https://forms.gle/7tZnL6yeaFMDcXLp6) or even send me an email (axel.e.cante@gmail.com).

Mentions and references

I used a tiny bit of online found assets in the game, all of which are governed by some form of the Creative Commons licensing. You can find all the references in-game and here!