VirtualTam's bookmarks

1. Building SimCity - How to Put the World in a Machine

   2024-11-22
   architecture/urban-planning book city game/sandbox game/sim-city game/simulation programming/c++ society/demographics

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   • Discussion on Hacker News
   • Book report by Steward Brand
   • ROMchip Presents: Building SimCity: A Conversation with Will Wright and Chaim Gingold
   • EA Sim City 2000 Will Wright Interview
   • Game Developer Magazine - April/May 1995
   • Stanford Libraries - Interfacing to Microworlds, Will Wright, Maxis
   • Will Wright on Designing User Interfaces to Simulation Games (1996) (2023 Video Update)
   • Will Wright and Brian Eno - Generative Systems
   • Playing with Time | Brian Eno and Will Wright
   • SimHacker/MicropolisCore - SimCity/Micropolis C++ Core

   Related books:

   • Racing the Beam - The Atari Video Computer System
   • Minitel - Welcome to the Internet
   • Developer's Dilemma: The Secret World of Videogame Creators
   • Silicon Second Nature - Culturing Artificial Life in a Digital World
2. SimCities and SimCrises - Transcript of the keynote for the 2017 International City Gaming Conference

   2024-11-22
   architecture/urban-planning city game/sandbox game/sim-city game/simulation politics research science-fiction society/demographics weather

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   • Matteo Brittanti - How to get rid of homeless? - A 600-page epic split in two volumes documenting the so-called “homeless scandal” that affected the newly released game SimCity (Maxis/Electronic Arts, 2013)
   • Stanisław Lem - The Cyberiad
   • MIT - Urban Intervention Simulation (archive)
   • MIT - City Science Research Group
   • The Landlord's Game, a realty and taxation game intended to educate users about Georgism
   • Invisible Cities, prose poems describing 55 fictitious cities, many of which can be read as commentary on culture, language, time, memory, death, or human experience
3. Earth: A Primer - A science book for playful people

   2024-11-22
   book game/sandbox geology interactive planet/earth visualization/animation

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4. Teardown Teardown - A breakdown of Teardown's renderer

   2023-06-19
   game/teardown graphics/3d graphics/opengl graphics/voxel indie sandbox

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   • Graphics Programming Virtual Meetup - Teardown teardown [2023-01-06]
5. Teardown Frame Teardown - Rendering Analysis

   2023-06-19
   game/sandbox game/teardown graphics/3d graphics/opengl graphics/voxel indie

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6. PaperMC – The High Performance Spigot Fork

   2020-03-14
   game game/minecraft programming/java sandbox sever

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   • https://github.com/PaperMC/Paper
   • https://paper.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
   • https://aikar.co/2018/07/02/tuning-the-jvm-g1gc-garbage-collector-flags-for-minecraft/
   • https://www.reddit.com/r/admincraft/comments/93ble5/what_is_paper_spigot_and_why_you_should_use_it/
   • https://www.spigotmc.org/threads/spigot-vs-paperspigot-whats-the-difference.92288/
7. Base Building Games

   2019-05-15
   game reddit sandbox survival

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8. Feed The Beast

   2019-05-15
   game/minecraft sandbox survival

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9. MineColonies | Homepage

   2019-05-15
   game/minecraft npc sandbox village

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10. Millénaire, the historical Minecraft Village Mod

    2019-05-15
    game game/minecraft npc sandbox village

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11. Convert Minecraft maps to Minetest worlds - Minetest Forums

    2019-02-21
    game game/minecraft minetest programming/python sandbox

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    • https://github.com/minetest-tools/mcimport
12. One Hour One Life

    2018-11-29
    family game indie nature sandbox survival

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    • https://onehouronelife.gamepedia.com/One_Hour_One_Life_Wiki
    • https://store.steampowered.com/app/595690/One_Hour_One_Life/
13. Programmers: Play with Minecraft's Inner Workings! | Minecraft

    2018-10-10
    game/minecraft programming/java sandbox

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    • https://github.com/Mojang/brigadier
    • https://github.com/Mojang/web-theme-bootstrap
14. The Builder's Refuge – a professional Minecraft building community

    2018-09-12
    game game/minecraft graphics/voxel sandbox world

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    • https://twitter.com/BuildersRefuge
    • http://www.buildersrefuge.com/dynmap/
    • http://mc.buildersrefuge.com:8205/
15. Subnautica Nexus - Mods and community

    2018-05-27
    exploration fish game mod sandbox sea submarine water

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    Mod Manager and Helpers:

    • https://www.nexusmods.com/subnautica/mods/16
    • https://www.nexusmods.com/subnautica/mods/39
    • https://www.nexusmods.com/subnautica/mods/45
    • https://github.com/Qwiso/QModManager
    • https://github.com/Qwiso/QMultiMod

    Mods:

    • AutosortLockers https://www.nexusmods.com/subnautica/mods/31
    • BlueprintTracker https://www.nexusmods.com/subnautica/mods/22
    • Cyclops Solar Power https://www.nexusmods.com/subnautica/mods/87
    • Habitat Clocks https://www.nexusmods.com/subnautica/mods/75
    • Habitat Control Panel https://www.nexusmods.com/subnautica/mods/43
    • Habitat Light Switch https://www.nexusmods.com/subnautica/mods/46
    • In-Game Data Bank Display https://www.nexusmods.com/subnautica/mods/8
    • Map https://www.nexusmods.com/subnautica/mods/12
    • MoopoolVehicleRepair https://www.nexusmods.com/subnautica/mods/51
    • MoreQuickSlots https://www.nexusmods.com/subnautica/mods/14

    Approved by Sammy! https://www.reddit.com/r/subnautica/comments/51w6ih/advice_from_sammy_the_safety_reaper/

16. OpenSC2K - An Open Source remake of Sim City 2000 by Maxis

    2018-04-02
    city game graphics/webgl programming/javascript sandbox simulation

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    • https://github.com/photonstorm/phaser/
17. TShock for Terraria

    2017-12-24
    game linux/container/docker sandbox terraria

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    • https://tshock.co/xf/index.php
    • https://terraria.gamepedia.com/TShock
    • https://github.com/Pryaxis/TShock
    • https://github.com/ryansheehan/terraria
    • https://hub.docker.com/r/ryshe/terraria/
18. LI2: Lego Institute for Lego Investigation

    2017-11-28
    fun game lego research sandbox

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19. LEGO Ideas - Blog

    2017-05-15
    apollo block brick game lego model sandbox

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    • https://ideas.lego.com/blogs/1-blog/post/137
    • https://ideas.lego.com/blogs/1-blog/post/143
    • http://ldd.lego.com/
20. New, Fast Random City Generator in Vanilla Minecraft with Custom Dimensions, an Outer Wall, and a Fancy Building Painter! : Minecraft

    2015-04-04
    city game game/minecraft generator sandbox structure

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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9Xl8PP28ZU