Uploaded April 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Environment of the 1980s was not great, extreme mining and burning coal, lots of dirty traffic. Building a landfill, waste water treatment plant, construction sites, parking lots and adding smoke.
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Altengrad is a time-progression Cities: Skylines series where I build a Central European city, located until 1989 in the Eastern Bloc, taking inspiration from Germany, Poland, Czechia, Slovakia and Hungary. The series starts around the year 1920 and slowly advances forward in time, which means the city will naturally evolve all the way to modern times. The city is not a recreation of any one real-life city or country, but it takes inspiration from them.
PC specs are in the channel's About page. No, the game doesn't run like this in real time. Cinematics are recorded slow and made faster in editing.
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Major sources:
(I) "Příroda v ČSSR" (Nature in the CSSR)
(II) "Reducing CO2 emissions by targeting the world’s hyper-polluting power plants" Don Grant et al 2021
(III) "Československo-polské vztahy z hlediska environmentálního, pokusy o řešení (1927–1992)" (Czechoslovak-Polish relations from the environmental view, attempts of solution), Nina Pavelčíková, 2022
(IV) "Historie ochrany čistoty ovzduší" (History of protection of clean air), Jan Macoun, 2017
(V) Archive of the Czech/Slovak/Czechoslovak TV and cinema news (various programmes, news clips or shows from relevant periods)
(VI) Recent Czech TV programmes like historie.cs and others
Other:
(VII) Museum visits, historical exhibitions or lectures
(VIII) Looking at various historical photos, for example from pastvu.com, fortepan.hu
Pictures used:
(1) CSA2 by Ministr MInistr / Wikimedia Commons / CC-BY-SA-3.0, creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en
(2) Matra Mining Plant by FuzosDosszie / Wikimedia Commons / CC-BY-SA-4.0, creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en
(3) Rogowiec, Elektrownia Bełchatów - fotopolska.eu (262558) by Placid casual / Wikimedia Commons / CC-BY-SA-2.0, creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/deed.en
(4) Kopalnia węgla brunatnego i elektrownia w Bełchatowie by Apocalyptiq / Wikimedia Commons / CC-BY-3.0, creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en
#citiesskylines #altengrad
Environment of the 1980s was not great, extreme mining and burning coal, lots of dirty traffic. Building a landfill, waste water treatment plant, construction sites, parking lots and adding smoke.
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youtube.com/channel/UCMQ3E2ZfpvnUkpUen7iMwHQ/join
Twitter - twitter.com/AkruasStream
Twitch - twitch.tv/akruas
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Mod collections: steamcommunity.com/id/akruas/myworkshopfiles/?section=collections&appid=255710
Altengrad is a time-progression Cities: Skylines series where I build a Central European city, located until 1989 in the Eastern Bloc, taking inspiration from Germany, Poland, Czechia, Slovakia and Hungary. The series starts around the year 1920 and slowly advances forward in time, which means the city will naturally evolve all the way to modern times. The city is not a recreation of any one real-life city or country, but it takes inspiration from them.
PC specs are in the channel's About page. No, the game doesn't run like this in real time. Cinematics are recorded slow and made faster in editing.
youtube.com/c/Akruas/about
Major sources:
(I) "Příroda v ČSSR" (Nature in the CSSR)
(II) "Reducing CO2 emissions by targeting the world’s hyper-polluting power plants" Don Grant et al 2021
(III) "Československo-polské vztahy z hlediska environmentálního, pokusy o řešení (1927–1992)" (Czechoslovak-Polish relations from the environmental view, attempts of solution), Nina Pavelčíková, 2022
(IV) "Historie ochrany čistoty ovzduší" (History of protection of clean air), Jan Macoun, 2017
(V) Archive of the Czech/Slovak/Czechoslovak TV and cinema news (various programmes, news clips or shows from relevant periods)
(VI) Recent Czech TV programmes like historie.cs and others
Other:
(VII) Museum visits, historical exhibitions or lectures
(VIII) Looking at various historical photos, for example from pastvu.com, fortepan.hu
Pictures used:
(1) CSA2 by Ministr MInistr / Wikimedia Commons / CC-BY-SA-3.0, creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en
(2) Matra Mining Plant by FuzosDosszie / Wikimedia Commons / CC-BY-SA-4.0, creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en
(3) Rogowiec, Elektrownia Bełchatów - fotopolska.eu (262558) by Placid casual / Wikimedia Commons / CC-BY-SA-2.0, creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/deed.en
(4) Kopalnia węgla brunatnego i elektrownia w Bełchatowie by Apocalyptiq / Wikimedia Commons / CC-BY-3.0, creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en
#citiesskylines #altengrad
