City Creator is a fun little site that lets you easily create your own pixel-art cities like the recently-mentioned Lovepixel. The site is really simple and lets you get started making your own city right away — no account registration required. You choose a city theme (currently there are three — futuristic Blankton, snowy Snoland, and medieval Medieville) and begin creating your city by drag and drop. When you’re finished, you can save your city design or send it to a friend, but to do so, you have to register.

The registration requirement is one of my only criticisms of the site — it’s too big a hurdle for such a small site. I should be able to share my city design (and spread the word about this site) without registering. The only other problem is the small size of the city canvas — as far as I can tell, you’re limited to the one small panel. Adding scrolling would complicate the interface, but it would enable much more complex creations and thereby would get more people involved with the site.