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Re: City Generator

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Post by homarp »

Rebelgecko wrote: post #39
yamaneko wrote: post #20

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-s…

If you like these you might also enjoy some of Lingdong Huang's generators. This one is my personal favorite, some day when I have the time I want to hook it up to an e-ink display: https://shan-shui-inf.lingdong.works/

earlier discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23469233 with link to source code

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Post by mcv »

These are really good. I've seen several of these sort of city generators, but I like this one better than most. I'm not sure why exactly, but I immediately want to use these in an RPG. There are professional hand-made fantasy cities that aren't as good as these.

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Post by tornato7 »

Check the sidebar on /r/proceduralgeneration if you want to see some great projects like this! We used to have a monthly contest and some of the entries were extremely impressive!

Re: City Generator

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Post by mcv »

EcqyLUX5i wrote: post #7

If you like this, you need to check out Azgaar's Fantasy Map Generator: https://azgaar.github.io/Fantasy-Map-Generator/ It generates a complete, customizable fantasy map with towns and factions. It also integrates this city generator.

You can zoom in! And edit! This is really cool.

Re: City Generator

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Post by barbecue_sauce »

oliyoung wrote: post #17
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.

Also been on Switch for a while.

Re: City Generator

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Post by Pawka »

This is beautiful! And must be even more beautiful from technology side.

I have recently became interested into procedural generation as my free time hobby. As a backend software engineer I was looking for a side project with no commitment. Which would be flexible to apply different types of technologies, boring and interesting at the same time. "The Forever Project" [1] article describes motivation behind it.

Since I had no experience with Rust, game development & procedural generated stuff, combining everything sounded pretty covering my "Forever Project" theme. I'm currently going through Rust Rougelike tutorial[2] to get basic understanding how games are being developed & maps are generated. I like the tutorial a lot because it covers so much different topics. From game dev, few libraries, to different approaches of maps generators.

There is a lot of content there but I'm already raising questions to myself where to look next? What should I learn & focus so I could deepen my knowledge in procedural generated content? I understand I always can read random tutorials (what I'm doing) and try to glue something from them. But maybe you have advises or more guided content as books, long tutorials, courses?

Thanks.

[1] https://heredragonsabound.blogspot.com/2020/02/the-forever-p...

[2] https://bfnightly.bracketproductions.com/rustbook/chapter_0....

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