Medieval Fantasy City Generator

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Post by BerislavLopac » Thu, Sep 06, 2018, 12:17 PM UTC

Medieval Fantasy City Generator
watabou.itch.io

Re: Medieval Fantasy City Generator

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Post by cissou » Fri, Sep 07, 2018, 4:40 AM UTC

Awesome! This is by the maker of Pixel Dungeon[1], the best rogue-like on Android. Anyone who's played it can testify that (s)he knows all there is to know about procedurally generated maps.

[1] http://pixeldungeon.watabou.ru/

Re: Medieval Fantasy City Generator

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Post by toomanybeersies » Fri, Sep 07, 2018, 4:47 AM UTC

This reminds me a lot of the work Tarn Adams has done in city generation in Dwarf Fortress [1]. I seem to remember that he generated some similar looking maps as png files in his dev log somewhere, but I can't find them now. Obviously in-game they're all rendered as text.

[1] http://bay12games.com/dwarves/

Re: Medieval Fantasy City Generator

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Post by brandonjm » Fri, Sep 07, 2018, 5:14 AM UTC

Pretty cool!

Does anyone else get strange clumps of 'Gates'? Surely a city wouldn't need a whole block of gates, or am I misunderstanding something?

Edit: Just realised they are always around gates in a wall if the wall is enabled. ie. they are sections of the town that flank the gates.

Re: Medieval Fantasy City Generator

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Post by dang » Fri, Sep 07, 2018, 5:53 AM UTC

A couple of small discussions that agree on triangular buildings:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14410768

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14407996

Re: Medieval Fantasy City Generator

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Post by lloydde » Fri, Sep 07, 2018, 6:02 AM UTC

Semi-related, I really enjoyed the discussion and resources shared about a month ago in the https://www.dungeonstome.com/ HN comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17704557

Re: Medieval Fantasy City Generator

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Post by LoSboccacc » Fri, Sep 07, 2018, 6:05 AM UTC

cissou wrote: post #2

Awesome! This is by the maker of Pixel Dungeon[1], the best rogue-like on Android. Anyone who's played it can testify that (s)he knows all there is to know about procedurally generated maps. [1] http://pixeldungeon.watabou.ru/

http://dwarffortresswiki.org/images/thumb/c/c2/Town_map_43.p...

The wiki is well organized for that kind of resources. It’s important to note that some of those irregular area are zones, not building. Actual building are simpler with the exception of some special cases.

Re: Medieval Fantasy City Generator

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Post by ez15972 » Fri, Sep 07, 2018, 6:21 AM UTC

He even wrote an accompanying 3d visualizer: https://watabou.itch.io/toy-town

Re: Medieval Fantasy City Generator

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Post by anonytrary » Fri, Sep 07, 2018, 6:33 AM UTC

This is officially the coolest project I've seen on HN since https://github.com/fogleman/primitive

Re: Medieval Fantasy City Generator

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Post by shezi » Fri, Sep 07, 2018, 7:18 AM UTC

I have seen this a while ago in a thread about procedural map generation. If you liked the link, here is more of that stuff: https://twitter.com/ptychomancer/status/980968298002006016