Monday, July 13, 2020

Townscaper

It's certainly not stressful in the U.S. right now.

I mean, it's not like people are dying because politicians are too stupid to make it mandatory to wear a mask in indoor spaces.

In death, freedom?

As we become the deadly laughingstock of the entire world, I like to do this:



That's Townscaper, which is a digital toy. You start with an empty plot of water, and you click on squares.

All you you can determine is the color. Sometimes you don't even determine that.

Then you just click on the square and see what happens.

There are rules about what gets built, but there's no place to read them, and you don't need to pay attention anyway. Just keep left-clicking, and if something happens you don't like, select it and right- click and it goes away.

Can you select a swatch of squares at one time? No. Is there some kind of hidden panel with more complicated building options? No.

Select a color, click on a square.

You can make your space quite big, or quite small. I prefer small, and my little village reflects that.

It's all quite Zen, in it's own way.

Best of all, it's only $5.99 in Early Access. Townscaper.

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