Kansas City is home to significant national and international architecture firms including ACI Boland, BNIM, 360 Architecture, Ellerbe Becket, HNTB, Populous.

Populous is both highly original and amazingly addictive, with a constant challenge on offer ".

Although there are many influences on the god game genre, the first god game is widely considered to be Populous from 1989.

Temporary courts and seating designed by Populous were installed, much as seating is installed annually for Trooping the Colour.

The stadium was designed by the Sport Division of Hellmuth, Obata & Kassabaum ( HOK ), which is now known as Populous.

Populous ' project manager for Heinz Field, Melinda Lehman, stated the Rooney family asked that the stadium's design " acknowledge the history of Pittsburgh and also bring in an element of looking forward, this is where Pittsburgh is going.

Kansas City-based Populous, which is considered to be the " leading stadium design firm in the States ," designed the ballpark.

He adds that “ The work done by the Populous architect firm, which was notably involved in the construction of Camden Yards ( the home of the Baltimore Orioles of Major League Baseball ) and its work on Wembley Stadium, is definitely something that need recognition .”

Populous: The Beginning is a strategy and god-style video game.

It is the third entry in the Populous video game series, developed by Bullfrog Productions in 1998.

Populous: The Beginning is multiplayer compatible, either by head-to-head direct modem connection, LAN, IPX, or using matchmakers over TCP / IP.

More charitably, GamePros Peter Olafson wrote: " Populous: The Beginning is not a bad game, in fact a good one ; but it's a different game — one without a quintessential quality that defined Populous.

Emergent gameplay appears when there is good game simulation according to Peter Molyneux, creator of Populous and other games.

Populous, formerly known as HOK Sport, is an architectural firm specializing in the design of sports facilities and convention centers, as well as planning of major special events.

The game was released on July 27, 2011 on Xbox Live Arcade as part of the 2011 Summer of Arcade, is described as a mix between Populous and Black and White.

Citi Field was designed by Populous ( formerly HOK Sport ), and is named after Citigroup, a New York financial services company which purchased the naming rights.

The architect, Populous, is an architectural firm specialising in the design of sports facilities and convention centres, as well as planning of major special events.

The company is now known as Populous and is completely separate from HOK.

** Populous, a 1989 computer game, the seminal god game ; see also Populous ( series )

Populous: The Beginning was the first entry in the series to use true 3D computer graphics ; Bullfrog waited four years after Populous II so that the graphics technology could catch up to their vision for a new and different game in the series.

It was the first game in the Populous series, preceding Populous II and Populous: The Beginning.

The 2001 game Black & White, also led by Molyneux ( but this time at his company Lionhead Studios ), has been called the " spiritual descendant of Populous.

Bullfrog offered Powermonger, a combat-oriented game with similar mechanics to Populous.

Populous DS, a new version of the game ( published by Xseed Games in America and Rising Star Games in Europe ), was developed by Genki for the Nintendo DS and released November 11, 2008.

* Populous, a video game

* A spell used in the strategy game Populous: The Beginning

The referenced project was an original Stardock creation and was unveiled in a 2007 interview with Gamasutra as a " part Master of Magic, part Populous and part X-Com " game.

His notable music compositions are used in titles such as Dungeon Keeper 2, Populous: The Beginning, Warhammer: Dark Omen, Wing Commander amiga version, Duke Nukem 3D Total Meltdown, and he has since had sound design credits in games such as the Develop Magazine Audio Accomplishment nominated Race Driver: GRID, Develop Magazine Best art and sound nominated Sudeki, Shox, Formula One, and Theme Park World-which won a BAFTA Interactive Entertainment Awards award in 2000 for ' best sound in a video game '.

Populous: The Beginning was the first in the series developed with entirely 3D graphics.

Populous: The Promised Lands was reviewed in 1990 in Dragon # 156 by Hartley, Patricia, and Kirk Lesser in " The Role of Computers " column.

* Populous ( 1989 ) by Bullfrog which EA acquired in 1995

The ballpark was designed by HOK Sport, now known as Populous, a division of Hellmuth, Obata and Kassabaum.

The stadium design was completed by the architectural firm HOK Sport ( now Populous ), which had pioneered retro ballparks on the minor league level four years earlier with Pilot Field in Buffalo, New York.

Molyneux's Black & White was heavily influenced by the Populous series.

The new stadium was designed by Populous, Scott Tallon Walker and Buro Happold, with ME Engineers providing the building services design.

Great American Ball Park was built by the architectural firms Populous ( formerly HOK Sport ) and GBBN at a cost of approximately $ 290 million.

</ br > The Estadio de Fútbol Monterrey, designed by Populous, started its development on October 2011, and includes plans for reforestation and environmental healing for the decaying area that surrounds the construction site.

In 1983, several HNTB architects were hired by St. Louis-based architectural firm Hellmuth, Obata and Kassabaum, forming what would later become Populous and opening their primary office in Kansas City.

Both stadiums are being renovated by Populous.

The Meadowlands Racetrack, including the main building, horse barns and site, was designed by the Philadelphia architectural firm of EwingCole ( now known as Ewing Cole Cherry Brott ), who also designed a number of other track facilities around the world as well as Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia ( with Populous ).

Designed by Populous ( formerly HOK Sport ) in conjunction with the Nashville based architecture / engineering firm Hart Freeland Roberts, INC., it was designed at an angle on the corner of Broadway and 5th Avenue in Nashville in physical homage to the historic Ryman Auditorium, the original home of the Grand Ole Opry.

Three months later, American Royal and the Kemper family announced plans to raze the arena and replace it with the 5, 000-seat purpose-built Agricultural Events Center to be designed by Populous ( company ) to feature dirt events and space for animal stalls and an open-sided show ring.

It was designed by HOK Sport ( now known as Populous ), a division of Hellmuth, Obata and Kassabaum.

Ascot racecourse closed for a period of twenty months on 26 September 2004, for a £ 185 million redevelopment funded by Allied Irish Bank and designed by Populous and Buro Happold.