I love townscaper!! To me not only are the graphics beautiful, the soundscape is also amazing. It makes just the right *bloops* when new structures pop up.
Mar 30, 2022·edited Mar 30, 2022Liked by Fei-Ling Tseng
Thanks for sharing! Love the prescriptive vs proscriptive rules. I have mostly proscriptive rules in the house with Jaime and her friends. The most important one is: you can be mindlessly scrolling on your phone except at the dining table and in the bedroom.
I'm wondering: how could you create a tool that allows this emergent design to happen in a real development? It seems possible to create a video-game-like interface that lets individuals choose/design housing according to a set of rules. Then, the emergent result is built physically. Of course, most of the detailed design work would be done traditionally, but the software could allow for placements of building forms similar to a massing diagram. You could vary rules between different sites as experiments in community design.
It seems like it would also make it easier for buyers of housing to visualize what they're buying before it's built. I've always thought selling a lot with the expectation that someone works with an architect to design something custom is asking a lot of the average person.
I love townscaper!! To me not only are the graphics beautiful, the soundscape is also amazing. It makes just the right *bloops* when new structures pop up.
Thanks for sharing! Love the prescriptive vs proscriptive rules. I have mostly proscriptive rules in the house with Jaime and her friends. The most important one is: you can be mindlessly scrolling on your phone except at the dining table and in the bedroom.
And promenadia looks cool!
This is a great issue!
I'm wondering: how could you create a tool that allows this emergent design to happen in a real development? It seems possible to create a video-game-like interface that lets individuals choose/design housing according to a set of rules. Then, the emergent result is built physically. Of course, most of the detailed design work would be done traditionally, but the software could allow for placements of building forms similar to a massing diagram. You could vary rules between different sites as experiments in community design.
It seems like it would also make it easier for buyers of housing to visualize what they're buying before it's built. I've always thought selling a lot with the expectation that someone works with an architect to design something custom is asking a lot of the average person.