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Procedural building toy Townscaper will let you construct lovely seaside villagesTalk of the town
Talk of the town
Townscaperis more of a toy than a game, perhaps, but it’s lovely to look at. You’ll click to add or subtract cube-ish chunks from your creation, which the procedural building system will turn into coherent structures. Carve a hole through the center of a building, voila arches. Build two giant towers beside one another, zam there’s some cute wash lines connecting them. Make an enclosed ring of buildings with nothing at the center and boy howdy that’s now a lovely public garden.
Importantly though, Stålberg says Townscaper has “no goal. No real gameplay. Just plenty of building and plenty of beauty. That’s it.”
Stålberg has been sharing work-in-progress gifs of Townscaper for months now, routinely adding new procedural bits like stairs and wash lines and beaches to give extra flair to each creation. There’s more work yet, it seems, as Townscaper has been listed as a Steam Early Access project.Stålberg has saidthat a photo mode is one possible addition. Overon the Steam page, he says “I want to see how people interact with Townscaper to help me figure out what direction to take it and what features to add.”
Townscaper lists June as a launch month for its Early Access version on Steam.Stålberg estimatedpricing it around €5/$6.
