Blood & Concrete *PART 9*
Blood & Concrete — a solo-dev 2D Topdown/isometric mob strategy game set in a fictional 1990s city.
You run one of eight ethnic crime families. Each week you plan your crew's orders — extortion, hits, bombings, robberies, buying property, opening illegal businesses, diplomacy — then hit go and watch it all play out live on the streets: your soldiers drive out from HQ, work the blocks, and the city reacts. Somewhat similair to Gangsters Organized Crime from the 90's.
What you'll see in the footage:
- A living isometric city (toggleable top-down and iso views) with pedestrians, traffic, cops and rival crews all moving in real time
- A full drug economy: growhouses → delivery vans → street dealers → bulk export, with upgrades and reputation
- Territory control & extortion across distinct ethnic districts (Little Italy, Harlem, Chinatown, Brighton Beach, and more)
- A reactive police system: patrols with vision cones, squad cars, investigations, arrests, judges and courts (some bribable)
- Diplomacy between gangs — paid peace pacts, alliances, rivalry and war, plus an honor/reputation system that gangs actually remember
- Real gang warfare: shootouts, bombings and coalitions that form against whoever's getting too powerful
It's a systems-driven sandbox — the fun is in the emergent chaos when all these systems collide.
I post a dev-update video roughly once a month on my YouTube channel showing the latest progress and new systems in action. If that sounds interesting I'd love feedback — I'm building this solo and reading everything.