The Heart of a City: Examining Some City Building TTRPGs
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- Опубликовано: 27 окт 2024
- Games discussed:
City Planning Department by Kaelan Doyle-Myerscough, Andrew Tran, Alex Dawson,
William Wu, Paul Geldart, and Raul Altosaar
The Quiet Year by Avery Alder
Ex Novo by Martin Nerurkar and Konstantinos Dimopoulos
We, the City by Teo Kai Xiang
I Went to Bourbon, Indiana Once by Beth Jackson
Tales of a City by Hessan Yongdi
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Great video 👍 and The Death and Life of Great American Cities is one of my favourite books! As a civil engineer and gamer, the planning of cities across the world, and how they subsequently grow through use by their residents, has always fascinated me
You hit it right on the nail! A city is more than its landmarks. A city reflects the people who live in it. One could even make the argument that a city reflects the interests of the powerful against the marginalized especially in the game: We, The City. As someone who studied cities and geography, place and space play an important part in how we create our games too. So city building games are extremely interesting to me! Hyped to see more games mentioned down the line.
Thanks again for having me on your video. It definitely got me back into my world building mood!
Thanks again for your help!
awesome video as always, every day im finding reasons to play more city building games and also read italo calvinos invisible cities
It’s a weird book, but really interesting one! Less than 200 pages, definitely give it a read!
This video rules! Can't believe I haven't caught this channel before now, it is so my jam. So cool to also hear my boi Blerdy on the mic, an absolutely lovely creator in the space too! I can't wait to check out the games from this list I haven't heard of and definitely can't encourage enough for folks to check out Ex Novo at the least! I played Ex Umbra (made by the same designer) earlier this year to build out a custom DCC Death Funnel and if Ex Novo is even half as interesting it is more than worth the purchase.
I'm also pretty fond of _i'm sorry did you say street magic_ and have really wanted to do something with _Beak, Feather, & Bone_ lately. The latter of which I noticed you did a video on as well! :D
This video introduced me to City Planning Department. I brought it to the TTRPG night I run at a community center and it was a hit! It also started a great conversation about municipal politics. Thank you for the effort you put into your videos!
I'm so glad it helped you find a game to play! City Planning Department is such a neat exploration of the difficulties in consensus building, and how hard it is to get things done. My favorite comments are ones like this where folks are inspired to check a new game out, so I'm very grateful you took the time to let me know!
Adore "Invisible Cities." Always thought that would be a killer jumping-off point for TTRPG settings.
Thanks for the shout-out for Tales of a City! If anyone is interested, the same mechanics are also present in The Tutelary Society if you want it in a full game and Heliopolis if you prefer a sci-fi or post-apocalyptic version of it.
A great video as always! They always inspire me to push my creative means in new ways.
Now I want to do some revising to one of my games to include the community evolution aspect that I have been meaning to incorporate into it since before its original release! 😂
Another great video, AA!
Was just thinking about this very topic. Another A.A. Voight banger
Thanks!! Would love to see your take on a city building game, if you had the interest
@@aavoigt already ahead of you mate hahaha
Another well-made vid! I just find it weird that you managed to avoid talking about the grandaddy of city builders, Sim City, and how it's the natural extension of the Sims and the simulation games in general. I still remember the pure bliss of managing an entire city for the first after being limited to a single Sim household.