Friday, February 04, 2011

NYCJ in the News and Media

In the news? The New York City Journals?

Apparently so. My little project appeared to attract interest from forumers, the blogosphere and even major news sites and magazines. I’m going to put up a section about the converge of this project from others.

NYCJ Goes Big on Digg: "New York Recreated in SimCity"- 12/12/06




Orlando Sentinel, SimManhattan -12/12/06


Thanks to Jim Squires from thebbps.com for interviewing me about the New York City Journals

New York City Journals makes front page news at Simtropolis-5/25/07.


3/11/08- NYCJ in Guinness Book of World Records: Gamer's Edition 2008!

I got news a while ago from a reader in the UK that they saw me in the 2008 Edition of the Guinness Book of Records Gamer's Edition. I went to my local bookstore yesterday to pick up a copy and I was surprised to see my name in the SimCity section on page 200 under "Most Dedicated Player." From the book:

"Elliot Hanson has been constructing the Big Apple in SimCity for nearly four years, "one pixel at a time." He has even reconstructed tributes to major events, such as the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade and 9/11. In his downtime, Elliot is working on re-creating San Francisco, Chicago, Washington DC and Boston."


Thanks to my all readers and the writers of the Guinness Book of Records Gamer's Edition 2008. Be sure to pick up a copy, there's a lot of interesting facts about not just SimCity but also many different types of games.

3/21/08- NYCJ on Schmap.com


Thanks to Emma Williams managing editor of Schmap Guides for including my photo of Tom's Restaurant in the guide of Tom's Restaurant.


5/23/09- NYCJ on Squidoo

Thanks to Pixelrage for his calling the project "one of the biggest SimCity projects of all time!" and for including the project in his Squidoo lens, Sim City 4: It's Not A Game, It's A Hobby

6 comments:

Pseudo3D said...

Congrats! Good job on the Macy's pic, I like that. Do you have full versions available in SimCity 4?

A Crazed Bush Hating Socialist said...

I wish I was even close to that famous.

Pseudo3D said...

I meant the Macy's parade.

ehanson said...

Thanks Jonah n.

The Macy's Parade is just a photo edited picture. It's not actually a functioning, animated parade in game.

a crazed bush hating socialist,

Thanks, but I don't think I'm famous in the blogosphere or any other sphere. I'm grateful for all the attention my project is getting though :)

A Crazed Bush Hating Socialist said...

OK OK Maybe not famous but people know you exist which is generally good. Hell, it is or why are you on the internet posting stuff if you dont want to get noticed

Anonymous said...

DO you think you could put all of the major Manhattan parks in the downloads section? I can't find them anywhere :)