The Story of Townscaper
summary
Townscaper combines three concrete techniques: a tile-generation engine based on wave function collapse (model synthesis style) plus voxel-style editing and lattice deformation to fit quads into curved blocks, with a hexagon-to-quad subdivision to guarantee aperiodic, deterministic grids. Texturing uses a single 128x128 texture with screen-space one-pixel lines; props and a bespoke beach algorithm add organic scale. The project ships an OBJ exporter, targets low-end devices, and has sold about 700,000 copies.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:47Background
- 4:15Wave Function Collapse
- 8:15Paris
- 10:32Algorithm
- 13:37Patterns
- 17:49Props
- 23:55Gameplay
- 27:00Looping Structures
- 31:15Water
- 34:25Textures
- 38:50Wildlife
- 41:20Questions
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