Show HN: Isopolis – Isometric pixel map of SF(sf.isopolis.city)

319 points by nuwandavek 2 months ago | 71 comments

Isopolis is an interactive isometric pixel-art map of San Francisco generated by fine-tuned Qwen Image Edit on 3D Google Map renders, with guided tours and radio.

2nd City Zoning(secondcityzoning.org)

211 points by michaefe 2 years ago | 94 comments

Show HN: SimCity, but with Permits(permit.petercai.com)

877 points by pcai 5 days ago | 421 comments

Landing page for Permit Pending, a free browser city-builder game where the player, as mayor, must get projects past zoning boards, neighbors, appeals courts and elections.

Show HN: AI agents play SimCity through a REST API(hallucinatingsplines.com)

173 points by aed 8 months ago | 67 comments

Show HN: Boardzilla, a framework for making web-based board games(boardzilla.io)

504 points by joshbuddy 2 years ago | 90 comments

Landing page for Boardzilla, a beta framework and platform for building and playing web-based digital board games with TypeScript.

TokenTown: A visual way to understand how LLMs work(laurentiugabriel.github.io)

53 points by laurentiurad 2 months ago | 15 comments

City building games have a Soul Problem pt.2(radical-elements.com)

150 points by lexx 23 days ago | 143 comments

Blog post by Alex Lingris, the second part of an essay arguing city-building games like Cities: Skylines 2 lack soul.

It's not about physical vs. digital games, it's about ownership(popcar.bearblog.dev)

594 points by popcar2 3 months ago | 452 comments

A blog post arguing that the debate over physical versus digital games is really about ownership, prompted by PlayStation ending disc production for new games.

I'm just having fun(jyn.dev)

457 points by lemper 10 months ago | 209 comments

A blog post by jyn, a compiler engineer, arguing that programming isn't a competition and that they write about technical topics simply for fun.

Open Source Games(opensourcegames.dev)

4 points by tokozedginidze 4 days ago | 0 comments

Open Source Games is a curated directory of new open-source games found on GitHub, filterable by genre, platform, play style and controls, with play links.

Making small games, which is fun in itself(abagames.github.io)

376 points by breck 2 years ago | 67 comments

A chapter from an online book by abagames on the joys of making small browser games, citing the Small Game Manifesto and the author's 350+ games.

I learned Vulkan and wrote a small game engine with it(edw.is)

599 points by eliasdaler 2 years ago | 240 comments

Elias Daler's blog post on learning Vulkan and building a small game engine with two demo games in three months, with code on GitHub.