Start of the episode: And no matter what it will always just be these same birds, and that's lovely End of the episode: I just realized more birds have appeared as the town grows. That's lovely
I legitimately made one for our group almost entirely in it. With the right patterns, you can have stairs and alleys and parks and walls which is PERFECT for map creation.
The best part of this game is that it works on designing the world with you. You may have a plan but the way things mix and fit together your views may greatly change. Like the pyramid idea was cool but the way it turned out at the end was fantastic
Wait I saw the creator on twitter sharing gifs and talking about creating hundreds of individual pieces and checking that every possible combination had a corresponding visual but I couldn’t remember his name or what the game was called. It looks so good
LordHengun it’s so weird how he essentially went viral blogging about his development process. Good for him, the game deserves all the attention it’s getting. Shame there’s no mobile version, because it looks like it could be a perfect bonsai town on your phone.
The way I would define a game is you're *extrinsically* rewarded or punished for certain specific actions performed in the game itself. In walking sims you get more story or maybe different content, in sandbox tycoon games you get or lose money, in puzzle games you get more puzzles. Townscaper doesn't have rewards or punishments. You don't get anything other than an *intrinsic* satisfaction of having made something, much like a toy (like LEGO).
I hope they keep updating this game Having little people wandering around would make it feel much more alive and I would love to walk around the village in a first person mode
I was wondering when Jon would feature this. Watching it, I think it could definitely benefit from weather functions and possibly a paint tool to change colours of small features. Something really appealing about looking at that town in rain.
You do not want a house that can only be accessed via ladder, especially not a straight up vertical ladder. Don't worry dear I'll carry in the groceries! Proceeds to stare at ladder, looks at groceries in hand, looks back at ladder, looks back to groceries in hands.
You can make a stripey tower, you just need to make the stripes 2 levels tall, so 2 white, 2 red, etc. Then it should give you a spire roof at the top.
Great timing Jon, I just found this game at some online store and was intrigued enough to decide some research was needed and bam, you upload this. This is not the first time you've posted an interesting game right when I first discovered it for myself.
People are sharing some fantastic paintovers on Twitter where they base it off screenshots of this, it's amazing! I'm thinking about making maps for RPG towns and drawing over them as well.
I've been using it to rebuild my dnd city map in 3D. It's awesome (though the grid is a bit odd and the max size is too small, which I hope will be fixed soon)
@@CesarTheKingVA I find the grid to be weird, it's intimate until you start placing bits, then it locks to a certain size. You can scroll around until you find an area you like.
FPV camera. Day/night cycle. Various backgrounds. That way you can create a town, walk around it, find a nice view, and have that view (animated with day/night and maybe birds and other small creatures) as the live background for your desktop... just saying :)
"I would love a house you have to climb a ladder to get into" . Wait a few years Jon until your knees start to go, you'll think that was the dumbest idea in the history of human thought. I'm only 10 years older than you and I already don't even want to live in a house that has stairs.
I got the same vibe playing with the Tracks game on Xbone. Basically building with kids wooden train set in bedroom/living room and building little towns, whatever; very relaxing and eats the hours.
So Jon, you know how you couldn't get your pyramid to work? I just got the game 20 minutes ago, and I got one to work. It might just be how the star is shaped that caused you problems
I did felt like Bad North! Also, next time try spreading the colours horizontally, not vertically, it gives a more organized feel and pops up the buildings better.
Walking simulators and other virtual sandboxes with no fail condition are not games in and of themselves, though it can certainly be possible to play games within them (Garry's Mod is an example: It's not a game, but you can certainly use it to play games). "Fail condition" also doesn't have to mean the game ends and you have to restart. Pyre is an example of a game where you can play the game through from the start to the end despite failure, and will simply have different outcomes because of it. But you very clearly have goals and those goals are possible to fail. Tycoon and management games also have a goal: Make money. And you can definitely fail to make money, or simply as much money as you want to make. It's important to remember that definitions are about communication, not exclusion, and toys are as valuable as games.
This isn't a game. This is an art project.
And I love it.
I bought this a couple weeks ago. 6 dollars well spent. 20-ish hours in just a few days.
The designer calls it a toy, not a game. It is lovely l.
"I'm not sure this belongs on the channel as it isn't a game" says the man with an Excell Livestream...
Start of the episode: And no matter what it will always just be these same birds, and that's lovely
End of the episode: I just realized more birds have appeared as the town grows. That's lovely
You say "tinker toy" i hear "map builder for tabletop rpgs"
I legitimately made one for our group almost entirely in it. With the right patterns, you can have stairs and alleys and parks and walls which is PERFECT for map creation.
that... is ingenious!
@@kendromeda42 hmmmmmmmmm
The best part of this game is that it works on designing the world with you. You may have a plan but the way things mix and fit together your views may greatly change. Like the pyramid idea was cool but the way it turned out at the end was fantastic
Jon made that in half an hour. I'm honestly a little afraid of how much would happen in a full livestream of this game.
I feel the creativity overcome me! It is a good pain!
Wait I saw the creator on twitter sharing gifs and talking about creating hundreds of individual pieces and checking that every possible combination had a corresponding visual but I couldn’t remember his name or what the game was called. It looks so good
Oskar Stålberg
LordHengun it’s so weird how he essentially went viral blogging about his development process. Good for him, the game deserves all the attention it’s getting. Shame there’s no mobile version, because it looks like it could be a perfect bonsai town on your phone.
@@everwhatever no mobile version *yet*
Oskar Stålberg omg are you real lol. Good luck with early access, I’ll be the first to buy it when it comes out on iOS
The way I would define a game is you're *extrinsically* rewarded or punished for certain specific actions performed in the game itself.
In walking sims you get more story or maybe different content, in sandbox tycoon games you get or lose money, in puzzle games you get more puzzles.
Townscaper doesn't have rewards or punishments. You don't get anything other than an *intrinsic* satisfaction of having made something, much like a toy (like LEGO).
This game is an architect's dream and an engineer's nightmare.
That pretty much describes the game perfectly
I hope they keep updating this game
Having little people wandering around would make it feel much more alive and I would love to walk around the village in a first person mode
If Jon ever has a house built, I pity his general contractor.
“You want to do WHAT in the gazebo??”
Jon on Grand Designs, that'd be awsome and horrible
@@ZumbaMarx The less said about what Jon does in the privacy of his gazebo, the better
i love how just deliciously Cornish this looks
That "plop" sound is heaven itself. It's just what we need at the moment.
I was wondering when Jon would feature this.
Watching it, I think it could definitely benefit from weather functions and possibly a paint tool to change colours of small features. Something really appealing about looking at that town in rain.
You do not want a house that can only be accessed via ladder, especially not a straight up vertical ladder. Don't worry dear I'll carry in the groceries! Proceeds to stare at ladder, looks at groceries in hand, looks back at ladder, looks back to groceries in hands.
Jon is not limited by your puny "practicality"
R A I N B O W T O W E R CARES NAUGHT OF YOUR PRACTICALITY PRAISE THE CULT OF THE RAINBOW
This is therapeutic to watch Jon, thank you.
That moment when you realize Jon is making less Venice and more Kowloon walled city on water.
This needs to be a livestream. It's a perfect example of a livestream-able game.
That's a great idea, it would be very, very chilled out.
Yessssss
@@the_Book_778 yeah, I know right? It would be like nerd3's tiny town stream.
This would be perfect livestream material. A town made by the viewers.
Rt game's next stream idea
This would be wild with a mode to go down and walk around
You can make a stripey tower, you just need to make the stripes 2 levels tall, so 2 white, 2 red, etc. Then it should give you a spire roof at the top.
TL;DR for Jon's "what is a game": It's his channel and he'll put whatever he wants on it.
Jon (in Palpatine voice) " I love democracy"
Coming next week: Jon plays with fridge magnets
@@ManyATrueNerd I would watch that.
@@nachoolo as would I
@@nathanielspohn3004 oh yeah I'd love it
If it's not in the game already I'd love to see a mode where you can explore your creations as a person in the world
Petition for Jon to play more games where he can just talk to us
Even as towers go, that is a little phallic.
It's like Game of Thrones meets Balamory
That made me chuckle. Has the BBC sold balamory abroad? I think this reference may not get the appreciation it deserves
Wouldn’t you like to know?
How? There aren't any battles, or armies or even kings.
@@BauthorFowler do you k ow what balamory is?
@@joylessdave Apparently not but I'm pretty sure Game of Thrones was about armies and battles and knights.
I found myself getting far more excited in Jon's plans as the video went on.
Like, weirdly emotionally invested in the building of this little town.
Congratulations John, you have created a massive rainbow slums XD
Gotta love a concrete garden.
I've held off on getting it but dang would like to fiddle around in it for a while, it just looks such chill fun.
If there were people in the cities with crowd simulations, this game would be legit perfect
MY GOD! Jon’s found townscaper! I love this game so much
Jon proving the superiority of Red as a people, looking down upon its tertiary underlying people.
Down with the color hierarchy! All colors for all levels!!!
@@BuzzCut-uf3un Preach it ! ! Polychromatic or nothing!
Red is the clearly superior colour.
In this episode, Jon creates Mont St. Michel.
Claire comes home next week after buying groceries, only to find Jon has elevated their house and you now have to climb a ladder to get in.
0:57 - "There's just a bit of stone in an ocean"
I feel like there's a certain reference here...
Silly Jojo fan, Part 6 is just a myth
As an architect these are the things I love seeing you play.
*LOVE IT*
Watching Jon play with this is as chill as watching Bob Ross paint...
Love this game, so good to pick up for a little while to chill out with.
F in chat for colourblind people.
That's not how colorblindness works.
@@TigerXGame It's actually kinda how it works
oh cmon, they're only missing out on like, 2 colors if I understand red-green colorblindness correctly.
I would be perfectly fine with videos of Jon and/or Claire playing with toys, regarding that intro debate.
Videos *
@@shatteredvfx6499 C'mon dude.
I mean. Thanks, and I've fixed it, but come on. You've got better things to do
Leave Jon and Claire out of your fantasies...
@@myrddinemrys1332 Look, if I can't wish for a Jon Reviews Lego series, what's even the point anymore
I need this on a stream in the future I would happily watch 3+ hours of jon playin this
This is definitely the game that I need in life right now.
Great timing Jon, I just found this game at some online store and was intrigued enough to decide some research was needed and bam, you upload this. This is not the first time you've posted an interesting game right when I first discovered it for myself.
God, if it only had little people walking around and hanging laundry…
didn't know you would play this but on second thought, hell yeah this is right up your alley
watching videos like this is exactly why I started my youtube channel! Cool stuff :)
Oh, it's a Miazaki/Studio Ghibli town building simulator.
Cool.
18:35 LGBTQ People after coming out
That’s too real. @Axel Erlandsson
This is gorgeous.
I’ve been followed this toy/tech/game for a while, it’s super impressive!
I can see this game being used by artists to help design built up ocean world landscapes.
@James R Very true. Basically if someone wants to create a water world with buildings, then this is the game to play.
People are sharing some fantastic paintovers on Twitter where they base it off screenshots of this, it's amazing! I'm thinking about making maps for RPG towns and drawing over them as well.
I've been using it to rebuild my dnd city map in 3D. It's awesome (though the grid is a bit odd and the max size is too small, which I hope will be fixed soon)
@@CesarTheKingVA I find the grid to be weird, it's intimate until you start placing bits, then it locks to a certain size. You can scroll around until you find an area you like.
It looks like Llandudno during Pride Month. And in the middle of the sea.
I wanna go there.
This was wonderful and chill! Thanks for this!
Yay! I was hoping you'd do this! I know it's not really a game, but it's so pleasant to watch. Thank you!
I was so secretly hoping that you could explore what you've built by walking around first person.
this feels like a Bob Ross video game.
8:02 towers just have to be two blocks above anything else on their building. If you put another block on top, that would make another tower.
Awesome! Love this.
Also notice the interesting conformal geometry.
would like to see the interior of the buildings
Watched this for 10 minutes, went straight to Steam and bought it. Think I've found my new favourite waste of time, it's so relaxing to play.
this game is an absolute delight
I could’ve watched this all day
I kept seeing this on Twitter every now and then so I am extremely excited that it's out.
Make this a series and we will watch I promise this is amazing
Finally you have covered this game
I could watch you stream this for days
Sim City, Venice edition
FPV camera. Day/night cycle. Various backgrounds. That way you can create a town, walk around it, find a nice view, and have that view (animated with day/night and maybe birds and other small creatures) as the live background for your desktop... just saying :)
I loved this!
0:21 What is a game, A miserable little collection of codes.
I want a never-ending stream of Jon playing this.
"I would love a house you have to climb a ladder to get into" . Wait a few years Jon until your knees start to go, you'll think that was the dumbest idea in the history of human thought. I'm only 10 years older than you and I already don't even want to live in a house that has stairs.
I got the same vibe playing with the Tracks game on Xbone. Basically building with kids wooden train set in bedroom/living room and building little towns, whatever; very relaxing and eats the hours.
this feels like a Ghibli-Anime-Town-Building Simulator-thingy and I love it for that!
Of course Jon puts food production into townscaper.
If this game was available for my Android tablet I'd loose hours and hours to it. Oh, and Jon most definitely made a phallus building.
Please fix the yellow on the tower so it is all one colour. I won't be able to sleep until it is done.
This would make a really fun vr game if you could drop into it
My man over here building Balamory
The pyramid OCD is one of the best things of 2020
This would be an amazing chill stream
"When you're walking down here and you see all of this..." you begin to wonder if a giant clown vomited on your town.
In this episone john creates the tower of babbel and *speaks in greek*
Yeah it was weird when I couldn’t understand him halfway through, it’s quite weird, 对不对？Mein Gott...merde!
This game is fantastic and I hope the developer adds more
Wish I was this confident with things I create.
So Jon, you know how you couldn't get your pyramid to work? I just got the game 20 minutes ago, and I got one to work. It might just be how the star is shaped that caused you problems
yes its so good
In this video, Jon discovers Lego.
Jon please god do a chill out livestream with this
I’d been wondering how long I’d have to wait for Jon to play this 😅 made myself a quaint little desktop background with it 👌🏼
This is quite nice
I did felt like Bad North!
Also, next time try spreading the colours horizontally, not vertically, it gives a more organized feel and pops up the buildings better.
I'd love to see you and Claire play this during your next stream!
Walking simulators and other virtual sandboxes with no fail condition are not games in and of themselves, though it can certainly be possible to play games within them (Garry's Mod is an example: It's not a game, but you can certainly use it to play games). "Fail condition" also doesn't have to mean the game ends and you have to restart. Pyre is an example of a game where you can play the game through from the start to the end despite failure, and will simply have different outcomes because of it. But you very clearly have goals and those goals are possible to fail. Tycoon and management games also have a goal: Make money. And you can definitely fail to make money, or simply as much money as you want to make.
It's important to remember that definitions are about communication, not exclusion, and toys are as valuable as games.
we need a whole series on this
This reminds me of some of the cities in the Dragon Quest games.
I literally just found this game about 24 hours ago, and this video was released about 4 hours after i found it.
Laketown meets The Prisoner.
OMG, I need this game... toy... thing!