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Ideas for Upcoming Livestreams (Pedestrians & Epidemics)

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Mar
28
)

Let me know if you'd like to see some livestreams on implementing pedestrians and a toy epidemic simulation.

Why I'm moving from Patreon to Github Sponsors

(
Dec
23
)

The obvious reason: GitHub matches your sponsorship for one year, giving me 2x the income for your donations. But that's not the only reason.

The Research That Goes Into Citybound

(
Dec
22
)

Talking about the important role of research in Citybound development and showing off the first publicised version of my research library for you to look at.

The Epoch of Native Simulation and Web UI

Spring 2018 - Ongoing

How I'm Implementing Procedural Architecture

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Dec
21
)

A visual explanation of how my language of moddable architecture rulesets will give rise to unique, flexible buildings in Citybound.

Tool Making Follow-Up: What I Mean by Friction

(
Aug
25
)

Hopefully clearing up some of my vagueness to reduce misunderstanding.

Making and Tool-Making

(
Aug
24
)

Bad tools as the main source of friction for Citybound development - and what I'm going to do about it.

Citybound as a Truly Moddable and Educational Simulation

(
Jun
02
)

How I discovered the technique of domain-specific languages to achieve faster development, make modding much more approachable and offer an entry-point into programming itself.

Introducing Live Builds

(
Sep
21
)

Making it possible for you to follow my development on the cutting edge of the current game state.

The Epoch of Native Prototypes

Christmas 2016 - Early 2018

Unifying Road & Zoning UI

(
Mar
11
)

In which I explain the bittersweet discovery of a much simpler road & zoning user interface implementation.

7th Patrons Calling will be on Sun 11th 5PM CET

(
Feb
09
)

See post for timezone help and links to the upcoming stream.

How I spent December and January

(
Feb
04
)

How I enslaved myself for the past two months for my personal and Citybound's good.

November 2017 Prototype Release

(
Dec
06
)

Extending "Grocery World" to "Rural Town", introducing resource chains, smarter businesses and simple neighboring towns.

October 2017 Prototype Release

(
Nov
03
)

Releasing the first monthly Citybound Prototype "Grocery World" - check out my overview video and try it out yourself!

My RustFest Talk (With Networking Demo)

(
Oct
19
)

The recording of my RustFest Zurich talk about Citybound and its engine became available. Check it out!

6th Patrons Calling will be on Sun 22nd 5PM CEST

(
Oct
18
)

See post for timezone help and links to the upcoming stream.

The 5th Patrons Calling, Voting for the 6th & Thoughts

(
Oct
09
)

Watch the 5th Patrons Calling and vote to find a day for the 6th (includes a weekend!). Also, something that will become a big topic soon.

RustFest Recap & Patron's Calling this Friday

(
Oct
02
)

A short first recap of my very cool experience at RustFest Zurich, and: the 5th Patrons Calling will be on Friday, 7PM CEST

Surprisingly Networking

(
Sep
25
)

My surpise one-month sprint of creating a technological proof-of-concept of multiplayer in Citybound

3 Days of Citybound

(
Aug
20
)

I locked myself into my room for 3 days and made some progress on economy!

Sneak Peak: The Open Design Doc

(
Aug
04
)

Just a quick update before my holiday on a new way to capture all of your & my great ideas.

Opening Up Patrons Calling, Join the 3rd!

(
Jul
14
)

Sharing lessons learned from the first two Patrons Calling and allowing everyone to watch & all Patrons to call.

Interviewing My Top Patron (and a small status update)

(
Jun
20
)

Getting to know one of my most generous long-time supporters and a text update on economy.

The First "Patrons Calling" & How it Went

(
Jun
15
)

How I completely screwed up planning and notifying my patrons, but still had a nice conversation with two of them.

Let's do more together

(
Jun
04
)

Making Patreon rewards actually rewarding, professionalizing my workflow and two new kinds of livestreams.

Economy Sculpting

(
May
22
)

Feels like the economy is coming together!

Two Tiny Triumphs

(
May
13
)

Giving the code a good comb and figuring out how family members will get along.

A Day in a Table

(
May
10
)

How a table full of numbers could be enough to produce varied but still reasonable daily schedules.

Introducing Stagemaster

(
May
04
)

Finally creating one unified part of the engine for both 2D and 3D UI.

Towards Simplicity & Actual Realism

(
Apr
25
)

Coming up with a simpler model for economy after two months of head bashing.

What I did today

(
Apr
07
)

What I did the last days

(
Apr
04
)

Moving countries again...

(
Mar
27
)

What I did the last days

(
Mar
19
)

A Glimpse of Game and Interaction Design in Citybound

(
Mar
14
)

Let the Battle Begin

(
Mar
14
)

Down the Rabbit Hole

(
Mar
07
)

Eureka?

(
Feb
28
)

Turns out it's difficult

(
Feb
27
)

What I did

(
Feb
22
)

What I thought about

(
Feb
17
)

What I thought about

(
Feb
14
)

January '17 Review & February Plans

(
Feb
07
)

Release: Citybound 0.1.1 & 0.1.2

(
Feb
02
)

What I did

(
Jan
31
)

What I did

(
Jan
30
)

What I did

(
Jan
27
)

What I did

(
Jan
25
)

What I did

(
Jan
23
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What I did

(
Jan
20
)

What I did

(
Jan
19
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What I did

(
Jan
18
)

What I did

(
Jan
16
)

What happened

(
Jan
13
)

What I did

(
Jan
12
)

What I did

(
Jan
11
)

What I did

(
Jan
10
)

What I did

(
Jan
09
)

Christmas 2016 Announcement

(
Dec
25
)

The Epoch of Native Engine Reimplementation

February 2016- October 2016

Background: An Architecture for Millions of Things

(
Jul
13
)

Background: A Tale of Two Worlds

(
May
29
)

How I'm getting along

(
Apr
18
)

April Fools!

(
Apr
02
)

Now in German: Eine kleine Statusberichterstattung

(
Apr
01
)

A Music Update From Dane

(
Mar
18
)

After just two years, I'm starting properly!

(
Feb
01
)

The Epoch of Javascript Prototypes

Early 2014 - Jan 2016

A Promising 2016

(
Jan
06
)

I'm participating in a game jam this weekend

(
Dec
10
)

Michael left Citybound

(
Nov
27
)

Trying out Beam.pro

(
Nov
27
)

The Road to Alpha, Week 96 - Committing to ...

(
Nov
12
)

The Road to Alpha, Week 89 - Theory and Practice

(
Sep
23
)

August 2015 Update - A week with Michael

(
Aug
09
)

The Road to Alpha, Week 66 - More on Planning Mode

(
Jun
20
)

June 2015 Update (Mystery Feature)

(
Jun
09
)

DevDiary #8 - Technical Background Work

(
Apr
27
)

Developer Diary #7 - The Economic Model

(
Apr
01
)

Developer Diary #6: Zoning, Struggling, Parceling

(
Mar
21
)

Developer Diary #5: Back to Business

(
Mar
05
)

Developer Diary #4: Traffic Anarchy

(
Jan
14
)

Developer Diary #3: The Struggle

(
Jan
12
)

Developer Diary #2: Intersection soup

(
Jan
10
)

Developer Diary #1: Where do you think you're going?

(
Jan
07
)

2014 in Review

(
Dec
25
)

The Road to Alpha, Week 40 - Hyper-Active

(
Dec
16
)

The Road to Alpha, Week 38 - Curve Control

(
Dec
03
)

The Road to Alpha, Week 37 - Imaginary Progress

(
Nov
25
)

The Road to Alpha, Week 36 - A Sign of Life

(
Nov
18
)

10/31 Special Announcement

(
Oct
31
)

10/22 Livestream Review

(
Oct
23
)

Something New: Livestream Reviews

(
Oct
20
)

The Road to Alpha, Week 31 - New Place, For Real!

(
Oct
15
)

The Road to Alpha, Week 30 - New Place!

(
Oct
07
)

The Road to Alpha, Week 29 - Exciting Times

(
Sep
23
)

The Road to Alpha, Week 28 - You Cut Me Off!

(
Sep
17
)

The Road to Alpha, Week 27 - Front Lawn Freeway

(
Sep
09
)

The Road to Alpha, Week 26 - Commute & Competition

(
Sep
03
)

The Road to Alpha, Week 25 - Imperfect Knowledge

(
Aug
27
)

The Road to Alpha, Week 24 - Signs of Growth

(
Aug
20
)

The Road to Alpha, Week 23 - With a Little Help

(
Aug
13
)

The Road to Alpha, Week 22 - Let's do this!

(
Aug
05
)

The Road to Alpha, Week 20 - The Calm Before The Storm

(
Jul
23
)

The First Livestream & Call for Donations

(
Jul
16
)

The Road to Alpha, Week 18 - No Voice, No Problem

(
Jul
09
)

The Road to Alpha, Week 16 - Going Shopping

(
Jun
26
)

The Road to Alpha, Week 15 - A Mixed Bag

(
Jun
18
)

The Road to Alpha, Week 14 - Intermezzo & Design Goals

(
Jun
10
)

The Road to Alpha, Week 13 - Just a Quick One

(
Jun
04
)

The Road to Alpha, Week 12 - Picking It Up Again

(
May
28
)

The Road to Alpha, Week 10 - Enter the Spaghetti

(
May
14
)

The Road to Alpha, Week 9 - A Day In the Life of a Citizen

(
May
07
)

The Road to Alpha, Week 8 - Intermezzo & Big Announcement

(
Apr
30
)

The Road to Alpha, Week 7 - First Signs of Gameplay Detected

(
Apr
23
)

The Road to Alpha, Week 6 - Intermezzo & Community Activity

(
Apr
15
)

The Road to Alpha, Week 5 - Every Town Starts Small

(
Apr
09
)

The Road to Alpha, Week 4 - REBRANDING

(
Apr
01
)

The Road to Alpha, Week 3 - A Fresh Canvas

(
Mar
26
)

The Road to Alpha, Week 2 - Camera, Action!

(
Mar
19
)

The Road to Alpha, Week 1 - A Slow Start

(
Mar
11
)

The Announcement Days

Early 2014

Two Days

(
Mar
03
)

Citybound - The Beginning

(
Mar
02
)