Chataigne, Fraenklie and me have joined forces to build a full town replacement set. News and updates about it will be posted here.
This is a combined continuation of our formerly seperate projects:
Chataigne's European Building Set: viewtopic.php?t=87346
My Southwest German Houses Set: viewtopic.php?t=73137
The set is under development with a first playable version which we currently play-test. If I was an actual programmer, i'd say it's in alpha state close to a first beta. But as I'm not, I'll just say that lots of sprites have been drawn and many lines of NML are written.
What's currently missing are modern house sprites, but we're at it...
So, what's in this set?
Central European Towns is not just cosmetics, though. It aims at simulating the most common architectural and structural features of European urban agglomerations between the 19th century and... Tomorrow? However, it is also aimed at affecting gameplay, for example via the creation of functional town areas such as old town or bussiness districts.
Features planned for the initial release include (most likely):
- More than 380 individual buildings (including churches, stadiums, parks and plazas) of Central European Style
- Town Types: From peaceful, quiet villages to Pleasantville-ish, garden-loving smalltowns turning into vibrating cities with road-aware block perimeter development and concrete squeezed into every corner possible - As towns grow in population, they will progress through these stages and change their appearance quite a bit
- Historicity: five historical eras all come with their respective architectural styles from half-timbered old-town romanticism to glass-and-steel postmodernity
- Old towns: Historical old town buildings can stand the test of time, disturbed only by some money-hungry transport tycoon's maniacal railroad network
- Parks, plazas and allotment gardens: So, villages get their one-tile village meadow; towns will have a 2x2-tile town park; And cities?
Features planned in the long run:
- More districts: Bussiness districts like "La Defense" in Paris as well as industrial or shopping districts
- Influence on town development via building infrastructure
Want to help us by contributing sprites, code or a warm word of appreciation?
Be our guest. Post here or write me a pm. We are always short on good house sprites, helpings hands and fresh ideas! Or you can utter your disgust here about our hideous political correctness in not naming the set the "German Houses Set" (which ist actually isn't because it includes buildings from Austria, France and Switzerland ).
Anyway, hope you enjoy this!