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What the Zoning Prototype Will Bring

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Apr
22
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Reporting some visible progress and describing what the new planning system will make possible for roads, zones, and more.

Conclusions about the Hackathon & Livestreaming

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Mar
27
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Lessons learned from the hackathon (especially regarding livestreams) and ideas for incorporating that in my normal work on Citybound

March '18 Hackathon

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Mar
17
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Links to all the upcoming livestreams, will be updated daily, next one on Tue 20th, 11:00 AM GMT+1

The Epoch of Native Prototypes

Christmas 2016 - Ongoing

Unifying Road & Zoning UI

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Mar
11
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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

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Feb
09
)

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

How I spent December and January

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Feb
04
)

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

November 2017 Prototype Release

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Dec
06
)

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

October 2017 Prototype Release

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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)

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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

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Oct
18
)

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

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

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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

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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

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Sep
25
)

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

3 Days of Citybound

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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 Ammar, a Real City Planner

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Jun
24
)

Meet Ammar, an actual city planner from Norway and watch us discuss Citybound.

Interviewing My Top Patron (and a small status update)

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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

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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

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Jun
04
)

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

Economy Sculpting

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May
22
)

Feels like the economy is coming together!

Two Tiny Triumphs

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May
13
)

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

A Day in a Table

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May
10
)

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

Introducing Stagemaster

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May
04
)

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

Towards Simplicity & Actual Realism

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Apr
25
)

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

What I did today

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Apr
07
)

What I did the last days

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Apr
04
)

Moving countries again...

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Mar
27
)

What I did the last days

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Mar
19
)

A Glimpse of Game and Interaction Design in Citybound

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Mar
14
)

Let the Battle Begin

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Mar
14
)

Down the Rabbit Hole

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Mar
07
)

Eureka?

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Feb
28
)

Turns out it's difficult

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Feb
27
)

What I did

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Feb
22
)

What I thought about

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Feb
17
)

What I thought about

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Feb
14
)

January '17 Review & February Plans

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Feb
07
)

Release: Citybound 0.1.1 & 0.1.2

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Feb
02
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What I did

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Jan
31
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What I did

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Jan
30
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What I did

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Jan
27
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What I did

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Jan
25
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What I did

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Jan
23
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What I did

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Jan
20
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What I did

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Jan
19
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What I did

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Jan
18
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What I did

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Jan
16
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What happened

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Jan
13
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What I did

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Jan
12
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What I did

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Jan
11
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What I did

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Jan
10
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What I did

(
Jan
09
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Christmas 2016 Announcement

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Dec
25
)

The Epoch of Native Engine Reimplementation

February 2016- October 2016

Background: An Architecture for Millions of Things

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Jul
13
)

Background: A Tale of Two Worlds

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May
29
)

How I'm getting along

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Apr
18
)

April Fools!

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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

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Jan
06
)

I'm participating in a game jam this weekend

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Dec
10
)

Michael left Citybound

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Nov
27
)

Trying out Beam.pro

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Nov
27
)

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

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Nov
12
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The Road to Alpha, Week 89 - Theory and Practice

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Sep
23
)

August 2015 Update - A week with Michael

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Aug
09
)

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

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Jun
20
)

June 2015 Update (Mystery Feature)

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Jun
09
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DevDiary #8 - Technical Background Work

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Apr
27
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Developer Diary #7 - The Economic Model

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Apr
01
)

Developer Diary #6: Zoning, Struggling, Parceling

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Mar
21
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Developer Diary #5: Back to Business

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Mar
05
)

Developer Diary #4: Traffic Anarchy

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Jan
14
)

Developer Diary #3: The Struggle

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Jan
12
)

Developer Diary #2: Intersection soup

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Jan
10
)

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

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Jan
07
)

2014 in Review

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Dec
25
)

The Road to Alpha, Week 40 - Hyper-Active

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Dec
16
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The Road to Alpha, Week 38 - Curve Control

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Dec
03
)

The Road to Alpha, Week 37 - Imaginary Progress

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Nov
25
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The Road to Alpha, Week 36 - A Sign of Life

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Nov
18
)

10/31 Special Announcement

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Oct
31
)

10/22 Livestream Review

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Oct
23
)

Something New: Livestream Reviews

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Oct
20
)

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

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Oct
15
)

The Road to Alpha, Week 30 - New Place!

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Oct
07
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The Road to Alpha, Week 29 - Exciting Times

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Sep
23
)

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

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Sep
17
)

The Road to Alpha, Week 27 - Front Lawn Freeway

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Sep
09
)

The Road to Alpha, Week 26 - Commute & Competition

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Sep
03
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The Road to Alpha, Week 25 - Imperfect Knowledge

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Aug
27
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The Road to Alpha, Week 24 - Signs of Growth

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Aug
20
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The Road to Alpha, Week 23 - With a Little Help

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Aug
13
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The Road to Alpha, Week 22 - Let's do this!

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Aug
05
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The Road to Alpha, Week 20 - The Calm Before The Storm

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Jul
23
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The First Livestream & Call for Donations

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Jul
16
)

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

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Jul
09
)

The Road to Alpha, Week 16 - Going Shopping

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Jun
26
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The Road to Alpha, Week 15 - A Mixed Bag

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Jun
18
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The Road to Alpha, Week 14 - Intermezzo & Design Goals

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Jun
10
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The Road to Alpha, Week 13 - Just a Quick One

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Jun
04
)

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

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May
28
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The Road to Alpha, Week 10 - Enter the Spaghetti

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May
14
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The Road to Alpha, Week 9 - A Day In the Life of a Citizen

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May
07
)

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

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Apr
30
)

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

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Apr
23
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The Road to Alpha, Week 6 - Intermezzo & Community Activity

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Apr
15
)

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

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Apr
09
)

The Road to Alpha, Week 4 - REBRANDING

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Apr
01
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The Road to Alpha, Week 3 - A Fresh Canvas

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Mar
26
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The Road to Alpha, Week 2 - Camera, Action!

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Mar
19
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The Road to Alpha, Week 1 - A Slow Start

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Mar
11
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The Announcement Days

Early 2014

Two Days

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Mar
03
)

Citybound - The Beginning

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Mar
02
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