There is also another game/toy by Oskar Stålberg in which you can build a teeny, tiny block of house(s) on a 5x5 grid. Very cute, especially with all the well decorated balconies.
The house toy has a cute little easter egg: If you remove all the foundation pieces of the structure, the remaining structure above starts bobbing up and down slowly, hovering - very subtle way to acknowledge "yep, I did in fact think about that case too".
Huh. Adding one sea level block to the outside of that doughnut leads to all the propellers disappearing but no stilts. Resulting structure does not look very likely. :)
I highly recommend following indie devs on Twitter. It's always cool watching the game take shape over the years, and sometimes you also get behind-the-scenes details
Also wanted to pop in to recommend his Twitter. Watching these games get made has been a blast. Just the right mix of interesting math and creativity. I always dig into his blog posts and threads.
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There is also another game/toy by Oskar Stålberg in which you can build a teeny, tiny block of house(s) on a 5x5 grid. Very cute, especially with all the well decorated balconies.
https://oskarstalberg.com/game/house/index.html
The author is on Twitter and sometimes tweets about development of his games and the techniques involved.
https://twitter.com/OskSta
The house toy has a cute little easter egg: If you remove all the foundation pieces of the structure, the remaining structure above starts bobbing up and down slowly, hovering - very subtle way to acknowledge "yep, I did in fact think about that case too".
in Townscaper, doing the same can cause propellers to appear beneath your structures
Hmm, how? All I see is stilts (in the browser version, at least, which I imagine should be the same as the Steam version).
https://oskarstalberg.com/Townscaper/#MzJODmOgd6TMNh6DKtk6nH...
An arc through the middle can cause no stilts or propellers!
https://oskarstalberg.com/Townscaper/#MzJODmWAdn_ETTo_gSLput...
(and, for posterity's sake, the shape with propellers is a donut).
you can even stack them! https://oskarstalberg.com/Townscaper/#MzJODmugKVfngggBBBC_TM...
Huh. Adding one sea level block to the outside of that doughnut leads to all the propellers disappearing but no stilts. Resulting structure does not look very likely. :)
Ahaha jeez, he really did think of everything.
It only appears in certain rare configurations. You need a section of town with no exterior corners.
Ahh I see, thank you.
I highly recommend following indie devs on Twitter. It's always cool watching the game take shape over the years, and sometimes you also get behind-the-scenes details
Also wanted to pop in to recommend his Twitter. Watching these games get made has been a blast. Just the right mix of interesting math and creativity. I always dig into his blog posts and threads.
looks like the precursor to Townscapper