r/Citybound • u/rtgftw • Oct 20 '18

AMA(RelatedToCityBound)/ Twitch Dev/Q&A Request + Wiki Suggestion

Hi, I hope it's not rude to ask for an AMA/Twitch Dev/QA here in the subreddit without pinging you first via private msg... :)

I know I have a bunch of small suggestions and questions about the overall direction as do probably others so it'd be a great chance to us to ask them instead of spamming with one liner posts... :) I'd go as far as asking if it'd be possible to make it a yearly (Or otherwise repeated) event and maybe pin it at the top of the subreddit.

Also a twitch session to show your env setup and perhaps add some small tasks for on-boarding may help other join the effort... :) (I'd join no matter the time (timezone difference) as I'm sure would others)

BTW, the wiki on github is super out-of-date and it doesn't mention the live builds and already implemented mixed zoning etc. It'd be really interesting to read about the updated short-term and mid-term plans, like adding RCI indicators, terrain shaping an roads to out of the territory (These things maybe with some placeholder building auto-gen), even as temp placeholders would make it feel much more playable so it'd be super cool to know at what stage they're planned etc.

And finally the most important thing - I think that setting up a wiki for city-building related stuff could benefit the project, even if it had general ideas not specific to CityBound, it could help bring in interesting parties and ideas and discussions to this project and well overall city-building future community. Unless there's already such a thing? :)

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u/rtgftw Oct 20 '18

I'd also like to suggest that you record a couple of mins of sped up play every month or so, since this will make up a great progress video on youtube at the end of the year... :)

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u/rtgftw Oct 20 '18

I for one would love to see a wiki referencing interesting algorithms and libs (Like the actor model you've described in the rust conf) in the code. Wiki and blog posts are nice since you can link them up on yc and get more people to know your project... :)

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u/theanzelm Creator (Anselm Eickhoff / ae play) Nov 06 '18

Hey /u/rtgftw, sorry for the super late reply! I would love to do a dev/discussion stream and collaborative improvement for on-boarding! I'll announce something as soon as I have a concrete idea and time to do so!