How Townscaper Works: A Story Four Games in the Making | AI and Games

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Townscaper is a city-building simulator powered by a clever and practical use of procedural content generation. But how does it work? In this video, we explore the inner workings of the game by revisiting the previous works of its creator Oskar Stalberg. The secret to how the game works is it’s the culmination of everything else he has done to date.
Special thanks to Oskar Stalberg for appearing in this episode, you can follow him on Twitter at:
Tweets by OskSta
You can play the Townscaper PC demo at:
https://oskarstalberg.com/Townscaper/
In addition to our interview, this video is inspired by the following presentations:
@Konsoll 2018: Developing the Bad North Look

EPC2018: Wave Function Collapse in Bad North

@IndieCade Europe 2019: Organic Towns from Square Tiles

@Konsoll 2021: The Story of Townscaper

@Sweden Game Arena (Conference) 2021: Beyond Townscaper

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Plus if you’re interested in trying your hand at Marching Cubes, Wave Function Collapse or Quadrilateral Grids, then here are some extra links to check out!
Marching Cubes video by @Sebastian Lague

Wave Function Collapse by Maxim Gumin:
https://github.com/mxgmn/WaveFunctionCollapse
Wave Function Collapse Tutorial on @PROCJAM
https://www.procjam.com/tutorials/wfc/
Model Synthesis by Paul Merrell:
https://paulmerrell.org/model-synthesis/
Hexagonal Grids by Amit Patel (Red Blob Games)
https://www.redblobgames.com/grids/hexagons/
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Chapters
[00:00] Intro
[01:23] What is Townscaper?
[04:05] The Division, City Building & BrickBrock
[08:51] Wave Function Collapse in Bad North
[20:23] Quadrilateral Grids in Night Call
[23:41] The Secret of Townscaper
[36:20] Future Work
[37:01] Closing
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Plus specials thanks to my Patrons for sharing their Townscaper settlements for use in this episode. A list of all appearing towns and their timestamps is provided below
Bernhard Werner:
Four Islands (00:17) (38:00)
Wordle Town (02:55)
Happy Pie:
Pie Town (00:20) (28:11) (30:17)
Highpe Town (26:39)
Lime Hills (28:00) (38:13)
Fritids Boden (38:18)
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All music in this episode is by @TeknoAXE’s Royalty Free Music
http://www.teknoaxe.com
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