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Townscaper Free Download GAMESPACK.NET After being in early access for a while, the toy-like town-builder Townscaper gathered a lot of attention, earning itself a firm spot on my radar. After shadow dropping to Switch during the Gamescom Awesome Indie Showcase, I knew I finally had to try it. Townscaper is an extremely simple but satisfying experience. I am a pretty anxious person, and I found the game to be a great relaxation tool, perfect for calming myself down when I would otherwise be chewing my nails and pacing the room. It’s entirely built around soothing, tranquil vibes, with no story, nothing to unlock, and no grinding or levelling up – your goal is simply to build something beautiful. While this minimalist gameplay may not appeal to everyone, it definitely has its place in the industry. The satisfaction of plopping down colourful building blocks in a serene ocean and allowing the algorithm to effortlessly link them together is strangely comforting, and the unique scenes and art style have a dreamlike, nostalgic feel that left me completely at peace. One of the biggest draws to the game is the lack of restrictions. The sandbox is totally yours to play with, and with a gorgeous, muted palette of colours and an illustrative art style. “TOP/BEST ADULT VIDEO GAMES IN UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (USA)

it’s lovely to explore and experiment with block placement, learning patterns to create the designs you want. As an artistically inclined individual, who often doesn’t make time for creativity, this is a wonderful way of playing freely with no cause or consequence. I quickly found myself forming little seaside towns threaded with vast, sprawling canal networks, and tall apartment complexes dotted with balcony gardens and verandas. The controls are intuitive and easy to pick up, and the ability to go back to buildings and maps you’ve previously created to delete or add blocks further emphasises the lack of pressure on the player. I loved switching between towns, mixing things up, and watching my town grow and come to life – it’s easy to imagine the little characters who could occupy the buildings, and what types of lives they would lead. If you like the sound of this little gem, it’s a very reasonable price. At only $5.99/£4.79 on Switch, it’s been worth every penny for me, and I’ve found myself using it to unwind before bed every night since I picked it up. It’s also coming to mobile later this year, which I am very excited about, though I feel it fits perfectly in my Switch library.Of all the places I lived growing up.

Experimental passion project.

I’ve a particular fondness for the seaside town of North Berwick, waking up a stone’s throw from the rolling waves and screaming gulls, salty air wafting through winding streets. Going back these days breaks the illusion a little, mind—the town’s been further gentrified into a resort, and you can barely move for tourists at the height of summer. Fortunately, Swedish developer Oskar Stålberg’s Townscaper(opens in new tab) recaptures the magic of exploring an endless series of quaint ports and seaside villages, one tile at a time. Townscaper isn’t a game so much as it is a virtual toy. A kind of Lego set for building picturesque, cobbled villages as cosy or as sprawling as your imagination desires. No complex traffic, power or infrastructure management here—just left clicking to place a tile (a street at water level, a brightly-coloured house anywhere above that), and right clicking to delete it. Really, that’s all there is to it. Except Townscaper adds a whole lot of small, welcome touches that turn what could otherwise be a rote block-dropper into something altogether more charming. For starters, Townscaper’s grid is a wonky, winding sprawl.Persona 4 Golden Switch NSP

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Building will organically lead into the kinds of crooked angles and quirky street layouts that define seaside towns (though, if you insist, there are parts of the grid that’ll let you create rigid, geometric blocks). Tiles also smartly adapt to what’s placed around them. Stairs will form between levels, rooftops become streets, archways forming where towers intersect each other. Enclosed streets will become gardens, which fence themselves off based on blocks of differently-coloured houses. There’s no formal unlock system, but learning what kind of interactions create different kinds of architecture is rewarding in and of itself—besides, the satisfying “plop” effect when placing a tile never gets old. While you’ll never see villagers roaming around, Townscaper has plenty of tricks to help your worlds feel lived-in. Washing lines often pop up between buildings, lights flicker on when you pull the sun low, and flocks of gulls will swarm and perch themselves on rooftops—though you needn’t worry about getting bird shite all over town. With clever colour usage, you can give each neighbourhood a unique feel. My largest town, for example, features a sprawling, pristine marble tower extending tendril-like walkways over more cluttered neighbourhoods and gardens, a heavy emphasis on verticality inspired by Edinburgh’s labyrinthine old town.

Small hamlets.

Townscaper may not have the complexity of a Cities: Skylines, but its quaint towns littered with cobbled streets and old churches, dockyards and lighthouses feel more instantly homely than the sterile American-styled metropolises of “real” city-builders—even when your town includes impossibly tall citadels or Bioshock Infinite-style floating cities. It’s just a shame you can’t zoom right down to a first-person view. Sure, you can awkwardly finagle the camera to a street-level view, but I long for an update that’ll let me stroll the boardwalks myself. With high-res screenshot options, texture toggles and the ability to move the sun itself, Townscaper makes for a shockingly good desktop wallpaper generator. A recent update even lets you export your town as a 3D model(opens in new tab) for printing, prototyping or whatever else you fancy. And yet, Townscaper is still just a toy. It’s an extremely simple wee thing, and if you’re looking for anything resembling a challenge, you’ll probably find yourself clocking out in seconds. Townscaper is a simple thing, as simple and clear as the face of a wristwatch. But like the face of a wristwatch, it pulls you in, its own little universe for you to peer down at and ponder for who knows how long.NBA 2K12

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This is a game-like toy, an art tool in which you create – and erase, if you wish – little towns, starting with a still stretch of water and ending with busy centres, suburbs, cathedrals, tower blocks, hamlets, burgs, you name it. One button to place a building, one to remove it. Zoom in, change the colours of the next blocks you put down, drop the whole thing out to white box to make it look truly sculptural, change the position of the sun, take a screenshot, tinker away some more. But there’s something else too. As each new block pops into existence I’m still surprised by how dynamic everything is. There’s that splash of water as a new settlement rises from the seas. But there’s also the way a building will switch roofs as it grows, from gable to spire and back again depending on what’s growing around it, or maybe the spire will turn the section below it into a little rounded tower, pinched inwards, walls breathing in, as it were, and holding the breath, until you place another section. You don’t get to choose the roof – the game makes a share of its own decisions based on rules you can easily learn. This is why each town you build ultimately feels like a negotiation – between you and the software, you and the environment, each building negotiating with the building you place it next to.

Gameplay.

Stilts, a bent leg reaching for hard ground, a wall of brick with a little railing, a framework of girders with a little ladder. How lovely. And study it: a sheer face is very different from a gaggle of houses that seem to sprout together, a low city with a hill is very different from a cluster of teetering needles.  Build quaint island towns with curvy streets, small hamlets, soaring cathedrals, canal networks, or sky cities on stilts. Build the town your dreams, block by block. No goal. No real gameplay. Just plenty of building and plenty of beauty. That’s it. Townscaper is an experimental passion project. More of a toy than a game. Pick colors from the palette, plop down colored blocks of houses on the irregular grid, and watch Townscaper’s underlying algorithm automatically turn those blocks into cute little houses, arches, stairways, bridges, and lush backyards, depending on their configuration. Townscaper is full of quirks like this, right down to the fact that the grid you use to place buildings is not an even grid – it has different shapes, and these shapes in turn affect the blocks you place, giving you slices of cheese, door wedges, the odd star-form plaza. You can learn about the way that Townscaper likes to think, or you can just be surprised by the way it chooses to work with you – either route leads to beautiful outcomes.

And it is beautiful, whether you’re creating something ordered and tidy or a snarl of rooftops and dead ends. The challenge might ultimately be to make something that is not beautiful, something that is not delightful. Good luck. Townscaper is a title full of potential that will sadly never get realized. It sums itself up better than I can, as “…an experimental passion project. More of a toy than a game.” In that sense, it doesn’t fall short of its modest aims. However, it’s an experiment not seen through to completion. And one the developer admits he has no plans of updating. So you’ll grow tired of Townscaper much sooner than expected, waiting for updates that will seemingly never arrive. A building title at its core, Townscaper is more of a ‘tap and see what happens’ release. Because the game decides what you’re building, and except for color and placement, your input is limited. The simplicity and straightforward nature are well-made for the beginning but never really advance. What you see is what you get, and it’s not much. Even simple titles can have control quirks, and Townscaper is no different. The controls can take a while to get used to. There’s a static instruction screen but no tutorial. A bit of a shame as the audience I envision possibly gravitating toward this (children) would benefit from the inclusion. Without it, I can see early frustration setting in, especially with some of the choices.

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For instance, when paying on the touch screen, you “Long press to remove” something and “Very long press to pick color.” Not an ideal or intuitive setup. Once I accepted the open-and-shut design of this release for what it was, I had some very brief albeit mindless entertainment. Here’s a title to plunk away at for a few minutes with the TV running in the background. You can quickly build a small town and eventually a city. However, no matter how large your town gets, it’s lifeless. I don’t expect a ton of people a la Labyrinth City. But how about some silhouettes in the windows? Smoke from a chimney? Boats parked on the water? Something to indicate life! The lifelessness even extends to the music, or should I say lack thereof; a sizable opportunity missed in a largely silent affair. There’s not much more to say. Townscaper is what it is. I know that’s a cliched maxim I could say about any Switch release. But it’s especially true here, for better or worse. Without any optional achievements or objectives, in this case, it’s worse. Townscaper offers little to keep players engaged and seemingly never will. I have to call it what it is, an early access Steam experiment trying to pass itself off as a full-fledged Switch release. It doesn’t even have codes for town sharing (pc only). Since the developer admits no DLC’s on the horizon to address expected features that are MIA, this incomplete title’s one to skip, even at just $5.99.The Captain Switch NSP

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