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Re: City Generator

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Post by mabbo » Mon, Feb 14, 2022, 10:33 PM UTC

quirk wrote: post #6

This is so good. My town of Cheesewall will never be marauded.

I was delighted when a section of my town was named "Fairy Ferry".

Re: City Generator

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Post by theguyovrthere » Mon, Feb 14, 2022, 10:38 PM UTC

This got me jones'n for SimCity...

Re: City Generator

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Post by Narretz » Mon, Feb 14, 2022, 10:40 PM UTC

Pretty cool. I had a city with an open square in the middle, and tried to generate another square somwhere else, but it didn't work. I only managed to move the streets.

Re: City Generator

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Post by amenghra » Mon, Feb 14, 2022, 10:44 PM UTC

One of my all time favorite fantasy map generator: https://rawgit.com/wlievens/scallywag/master/index.html

(source is here: https://github.com/wlievens/scallywag)

Re: City Generator

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Post by boiledbuns » Mon, Feb 14, 2022, 10:48 PM UTC

It's been a while since I've seen this name! They also authored a roguelike titled pixel dungeon [1] which I've sunk countless hours into when I was in high school. I suppose city generation not too dissimilar to dungeon generation

[1]: https://watabou.itch.io/pixel-dungeon

Re: City Generator

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Post by howlin » Mon, Feb 14, 2022, 10:49 PM UTC

"watabou" is already famous for Pixel Dungeon, one of the best Rogue-like games for mobile. It's inspired many forks as well.

This project looks to be on the way to another interesting contribution to OSS.

Re: City Generator

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Post by oliyoung » Mon, Feb 14, 2022, 10:56 PM UTC

samwillis wrote: post #4

Love these sort of things. It’s been on HN a few time before but Townscaper by @OskaSta on twitter is also brilliant. He’s worth following as he documents the development of the projects he’s working on, currently a new island generator. Really interesting intersection of algorithms and art. Often shares other peoples work to thats super interesting, I have a feeling he may have retweeted something about this city ge…

Townscaper just got a wider release too from just being on PC for a long time, it's on iOS/Android and on Xbox Game Pass too. Wonderful fun.

Re: City Generator

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Post by sklargh » Mon, Feb 14, 2022, 10:57 PM UTC

This tool generates most of my cities for my tabletop games (OSE [B/X]). He has a fully integrated system that can take you from territory to town level. It's really impressive stuff.

Also saves refs like myself hours of (very poorly done) sketching.

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/watawatabou

Re: City Generator

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Post by blacksmith_tb » Mon, Feb 14, 2022, 11:00 PM UTC

boiledbuns wrote: post #15

It's been a while since I've seen this name! They also authored a roguelike titled pixel dungeon [1] which I've sunk countless hours into when I was in high school. I suppose city generation not too dissimilar to dungeon generation [1]: https://watabou.itch.io/pixel-dungeon

Which also gave rise to a million remixes / embellished versions, Shattered Pixel Dungeon[1] remains my fave roguelike on mobile!

1: https://shatteredpixel.com/shatteredpd/

Re: City Generator

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Post by yamaneko » Mon, Feb 14, 2022, 11:06 PM UTC

Watabou has created many great projects. Besides the already mentioned Pixel Dungeon, check out these other generators:

- Neighborhood generator: https://watabou.itch.io/neighbourhood

- One Page Dungeon: https://watabou.itch.io/one-page-dungeon

- ProcGen Mansion: https://watabou.itch.io/procgen-mansion

- Village Generator: https://watabou.itch.io/village-generator

- Perilous Shores: https://watabou.itch.io/perilous-shores

- Castle Generator: https://watabou.itch.io/castle-in-the-mist

- Fantasy Manor: https://watabou.itch.io/fantasy-manor

- Rune Generator: https://watabou.itch.io/rune-generator

And there are many others in his profile.