So I was at GDC again this year – and as usual there’s lots of interesting things going on there. One thing I stumbled over in the expo is the ESRI City Engine, a tool to procedurally generate cities.
Here’s their trailer, which looks quite interesting.
An interesting article over at the BLDGBLOG about procedural generation of cities. That’s a topic I’m really interested in and that article is a good quick read with some interesting links to further stories.
Especially noteworthy are the game Subversion from Introversion and the procedural city project from Shamus Young of DM of the Rings webcomic fame. Also Viktor Antonov, designer of City 17 is mentioned in there. If you remember, I’ve already stumbled over him in the EDGE podcast I linked to a few days back.
Check it out.
Also if anyone has some additional info on Marco Corbettas Structure, I’d love if you could share…
EDIT: Here’s a YouTube video on Structure.