Oskar Stålberg

The boundaries is where the interesting things happen!

Diagram showing a square and a hex terrain grid with water and land, simplified by the dual grid. On the square grid each boundary slice is a rectangle between the midpoints of 4 adjacent tiles. On the hex grid it’s a tringle between 3.

Wish I'd taken the time to figure out @oskarstalberg.bsky.social's dual grid concept earlier. It simplifies everything so much while also enabling nicer tile shapes.

In short: instead of designing tiles, design the boundary slices between them.

YouTube video by Sweden Game Arena SGC21- Oskar Stålberg - Beyond Townscapers

@oskarstalberg.bsky.social’s excellent presentation on efficient and flexible tile-based procedural generation:
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Yeah the camera was much closer!

Yeah you might think I made this because I'm a good father. But I actually made it to impress our dinner guests. Though maybe that's where most good acts come from?

The whole area looks like this. Unfortunately the drawers to the right can't be used right now bacause our baby keeps rummaging through and emptying them

Well you don't draw on the tiger. It's just a shelf for storage. It does sway a bit when you use it but it doesn't really matter.

A tiger shelf I made for my daughter's drawing table

My prototype tactical dungeon-crawler card game is now available to play at foldedfox.itch.io/delvetoodeep.... It's free, so there's no excuse to not try it out!
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God I love these sort of models

Hah! Yes!

One of my favourite riddles: why does a mirror flip right and left, but not up and down?

Their cat's name is actually Baldur, but they habitually give him on the fly anagram pet names

A birthday present for my brother

YouTube video by Summer School on AI and Games TV Oskar Stålberg: Landscapes of Hex and Square - Summer School on AI and Games 2023

How to build #PCG for games and games for PGC?

Oskar Stålberg (@oskarstalberg.bsky.social) the dev behind
BadNorth and Townscaper shares insights on building systems with Procedural Content Generation.

Watch his 2023 talk: youtu.be/NpfoRAzfGDg

More about us: school.gameaibook.org

Cool grid!

Aha. Yeah but it's just a hallway, not a place where you spend a lot of continous time, so I'm hoping that's not an issue

Nice! It's a fun little algorithm, right?

I'm gonna scare away the spam is what I'll do

I mean it's next to my neighbours mailbox and it's got our name and adress written on top? Surely, that should suffice

I used an egg and linseed oil wall paint I had laying around. But then it's covered in boat varnish

I made a cute lil' mailbox for our new home

10 games that influenced me as a dev

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Day 8.

Bad North

Art by the very fantastic @oskarstalberg.bsky.social. To me this game has the perfect scope for an indie game. If I can make a game half as good I'd be so happy!

The build is stored in the url too, for easy sharing!

It's pretty cool that you can play a demo version of Townscaper in the browser at @oskarstalberg.bsky.social 's website.

I own the game thrice (Steam, mobile, Switch), but definitely will share this with friends for them to try!

oskarstalberg.com/Townscaper

A view from the water of a fantastic castle in the sea, lit by the rising sun. Its basic structure is of a tetrahedron stood on one of its vertices supported by stilt-like towers attached at the middle of the sides of the flat top. That triangular top surface is walled off and has a tower at each corner and one in the middle. In detail, the underside of the inverted pyramid is supported by a forest of metal girders and the resulting vaulting in the brickwork gives the appearance that it's melting.

A bird's eye view of the same castle, now lit by the early morning sun, peeking into the tiered inner courtyards and the outer balconies framed by castle's towers.

To file under "minor indulgence" (No, don't look at my build log!) the Townscaper browser demo, oskarstalberg.com/Townscaper/ , by @oskarstalberg.bsky.social .

Here's something I whipped up just now, trying to make good use of both the space I'm given and the lighting slider.

As some suggested, I got myself an empty refillable pen to fill up with the same paint. Makes cleaning up lines a lot easier. I'll see if I can find one with a bigger container and more flow, as the paint is quite viscous. But all in all, it feels like I've got a good workflow on my hands.

I'll definitely keep the door open during the towns annual gallery night

Yeah you can basically eat it. They can mix it for me in a local shop.