Comments on: gameworlds http://m.ammoth.us/blog/2009/10/gameworlds/ the herculez gomez of architecture blogs Thu, 09 Sep 2010 02:20:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Greg J. Smith http://m.ammoth.us/blog/2009/10/gameworlds/comment-page-1/#comment-16858 Greg J. Smith Fri, 09 Jul 2010 07:16:01 +0000 http://m.ammoth.us/blog/?p=803#comment-16858 "Why, also, are the buildings built and terrains inhabited by the citizens of SimCity and Cities XL so dull? Where’s the game that lets us manage Underground Berlins, New Babylons, or Cable Cities? You know you’d play that." This is a good question. One of the things I find so strange about procedural design is that coders go to great lengths to develop a system for making completely unremarkable cities. I understand the desire within animation and film to have an "auto-backdrop" but it is kind of ironic to use new tools to clone stamp generic urbanism ad infinitum. “Why, also, are the buildings built and terrains inhabited by the citizens of SimCity and Cities XL so dull? Where’s the game that lets us manage Underground Berlins, New Babylons, or Cable Cities? You know you’d play that.”

This is a good question. One of the things I find so strange about procedural design is that coders go to great lengths to develop a system for making completely unremarkable cities. I understand the desire within animation and film to have an “auto-backdrop” but it is kind of ironic to use new tools to clone stamp generic urbanism ad infinitum.

]]> By: sid meier and peter cook – mammoth // building nothing out of something http://m.ammoth.us/blog/2009/10/gameworlds/comment-page-1/#comment-16727 sid meier and peter cook – mammoth // building nothing out of something Thu, 08 Jul 2010 01:01:55 +0000 http://m.ammoth.us/blog/?p=803#comment-16727 [...] by the gamer and the fetishization of control in modernist urbanism --  is a topic which we have occasionally discussed.] This entry was written by rholmes, posted on July 7, 2010 at 8:00 pm, filed under [...] [...] by the gamer and the fetishization of control in modernist urbanism –  is a topic which we have occasionally discussed.] This entry was written by rholmes, posted on July 7, 2010 at 8:00 pm, filed under [...]

]]> By: simcity baghdad - mammoth // building nothing out of something http://m.ammoth.us/blog/2009/10/gameworlds/comment-page-1/#comment-6626 simcity baghdad - mammoth // building nothing out of something Wed, 13 Jan 2010 22:56:20 +0000 http://m.ammoth.us/blog/?p=803#comment-6626 [...] urban social systems, and insurgent violence.  It’s not exactly what I was thinking of when I described a hypothetical Infrastructure XL, but UrbanSim (that’s the actual title of the game) [...] [...] urban social systems, and insurgent violence.  It’s not exactly what I was thinking of when I described a hypothetical Infrastructure XL, but UrbanSim (that’s the actual title of the game) [...]

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