#ostriv game

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[sinsinewave]

it's game design thoughts time again

so it's that time of the <unit_of_time> again, where i have opinions on city builder games this time, i think there should be a C:S like city builder but with a distinct time progression that unlocks certain abilities like, it'd start out with only building placement and such like Ostriv, with a key feature being dynamic NPC pathing, forming roads where the people go then as the game progresses and you unlock new features you can start formalising those paths into roads which are preferred by the NPCs, and sort of gradually adjust that towards C:S style road building with only slight dynamic paths around corners, like you'd see in real cities a similar progression could be applied to other things, like people slowly gaining vehicles first in the form of horses and then later cars, which require different infrastructure, and the demands for resources and services also changing the whole point behind all this is to make city growth more organic, since it's generally very *weird* how C:S just plops you at a highway intersection in like 2016, and you just build a city out of nothing the old medieval-y and such eras would help establish the origins of the city and create a kind of emergent story too the whole idea could kinda be called the Spore of city builders i guess also, Anno 1800 does sort of do this but in a very short timespan, i quite like how it works but it isn't perfect; the first era never really goes away and the new ones are just kinda stacked on top

[thecatfarm]

One of my favorite observations is how easy it is to spot who is American and who is not, in playthroughs of Ostriv (an 18th century city sim):

You see, non Americans will build a functioning (industrial, comnmercial etc) building, and build 2-3 residential houses around it, then build another functioning building, and so on, and so forth. The flow of people walking to and from work is short, and efficient. Americans are so poisoned by the curse of suburbia that they will build 10 functioning buildings right next to each other, then sroll aaaall the waaaay over there, and build a suburb. For people who walk, and use carts. The people working at any building have to traverse a much larger distance, every day, making the buildings *slower* to fully occupy by workers. This is done, despite it not affecting (or even, obstructing) gameplay, for no discernable reason, other than, well, that's what cities are, aren't they?

[bakafox]

Man. For days I have been unable to figure out what game to play, just staring at my Steam library, briefly starting one up and then promptly shutting it down.

A chunk of my brain really is excited by the prospect of doing a full blown management game like Workers & Resources Soviet Republic, but I am finding myself just unable to actively get back into that game itself and the network planning one needs to really be able to lay out, and the very new additional things like waste management and law & order that I am curious about that they added since I last binge played it are also scaring me off because That Is A Lot Of Complications.

Briefly thought of going back to Banished with megamod but now apparently the megamod is a 7 part thing that some people are reporting problems with and also that doesn't entirely feel like it'll scratch the itch.

Farthest Frontier just isn't feeling right. Ostriv I desperately want more maps for to start a new city.

Foundation feels too simplistic, and I burned myself out on Against the Storm for a bit bc I played that for a big chunk of late last month and early this month.

Clanfolk is a little too small in scope and while I LOVE the new decorations I am waiting with bated breath for more farming options/vegetables. I don't want to deal with combat in Rimworld and it'll be a BIG hassle to make a starting scenario that cuts out all the events I don't want... Dwarf Fortress also isn't appealing for some reason, maybe too much combat again?

And I don't really want to deal with water management for Timberborn as much as I love those little beavers.

And yeah I definitely want a more manage-y game than Cities Skylines and more of a city or colony builder than Planet Zoo.

And I am not up for any RPG's, I want management/city build!

BLEH!

[punksdocrimes]

Dude if it was like a mix of Ostriv, City Skylines, Tropico, and Manor Lords it would literally be the only city builder I would play

Like with the economic and resource management elements of Ostriv + maybe the citizen simulation? And the progression?

The city planning tools of City Skylines? The management of power, water, sewage, etc?

The trade of Tropico? And the witty, sharp, political commentary of the early Tropico games?

The ability to walk around your city in third-person like in Manor Lords? The detailed construction and labour simulations? The plot additions? AND the regional specializations but retooled for assignable boroughs and districts?

Literally my dream game.

I think a city builder where you run a late victorian industrial city ala Chicago or Buffalo or Pittsburgh could be interesting.

[shiroikabocha]

Let's build a little town in Ostriv

I've fallen in love with this weird little slow-paced town-building game called Ostriv. I'm going to try documenting the journey of one of my little towns as it grows from a circle of tents to a thriving metropolis with a flax-based economy and a robust milk-distribution system. I have no idea if this is what Tumblr is for. I only got here like 72 hours ago and most of those hours, I've been playing Ostriv.

Ostriv is still in alpha, so it's rough around the edges and there are some pieces missing. The devs are based in Ukraine, so, you know, they've got some other stuff on their plate right now that might keep them from updating the game in a timely manner. Despite all that, the game in its current state is very playable--like, "I'm screwing up my sleep schedule and giving myself back problems from playing this game six hours straight" playable.

So let us build a town. I'm going to call this little hamlet Stele Scobitura, and if you know what I shoved through Google translate to generate that name, you have the right to make fun of me for it because it's pretty dumb and almost certainly gibberish.

I plop down my camp near the edge of the lake on a map I've never used before. It is March, 1721, and the weather is brisk. The last patches of winter snow are just melting. We're not too far from the water, good for gathering reeds--we'll need those for the thatched roof cottages--and the trees, nice and tall for chopping. Our first order of business: find the mayor, and fire him.

I'm certain that Opanas Perederiy has plenty of good qualities, and that he would make a fine mayor in another life, but the fact of the matter is we've only got nine men in this camp and we need every last one of them if we want to finish building our houses before winter. Nobody wants to be stuck in a tent when the snows come.

Fortunately, while some jobs are restricted to men (construction, chopping trees), the job of the mayor requires only literacy, not upper-body strength. An educated woman can do the job just as well.

So, who all here knows how to read?

Of the 18 adults in our camp, only six have the education required to serve in government: the current mayor Opanas, his young wife Olha, their neighbors Yarovyd and (another) Olha, a man named Pavlo, and a man named Mykhailo. The two Olhas are the only women in the camp with any education--a sad state of affairs that they hope to remedy in the next generation. Between the two of them, the Olhas agree that Olha Lyashenko is the best choice to lead the fledgling settlement of Stele Scobitura. As soon as everyone has a roof over their heads, the younger Olha Perederiy will make an excellent counsellor to the new mayor.

With our matriarchy established, we are ready to start building.

Olha plans the first row of houses along the waterfront and gives each one a generous plot of land for gardening. Any home that's finished before the end of planting season will have a chance to grow some vegetables, which will be a welcome addition to everyones' diets come winter and help keep away the scurvy. The game doesn't have a scurvy mechanic, but I'm playing it like it does. It seems like the sort of thing the devs might eventually implement. My brother got scurvy once, it's not fun!

With all nine men working, the houses go up fast. One thing I really like about Ostriv, that photos don't quite capture, is that each building is constructed beam by beam, nail by nail. Watching the little men build the houses with their little tools and their little carts is hypnotic. I could do it for hours.

It is 2/3rds of the way through March and the first house is complete! Opanas and Olha Perederiy move in with their two young sons and immediately break out the shovels: they have a garden to plant.

Soon after, other children from the village start coming by to hang out in the Perederiys' new house. It's certainly more interesting than their tents. Sisters Natasya and Nadiya Shchutska (7 and 4) are frequent visitors, providing their mother Solomiya a welcome reprieve from childcare duties. Friendship between the Shchutsky and Perederiy families grows, and when the second house is complete, the Shchutskys move in next door. They plant a little fruit tree in addition to their vegetable garden! It won't produce a harvest for a few years, but it's an investment for the future.

The third house is completed, further down the shoreline. The Silpets family moves in--husband Pavlo, of literacy-having fame, and wife Svitlana, not a big reader--and plants their garden. They may be the last family with the opportunity to do so: it's already May, planting doesn't usually continue much past April.

The Levchenkos move in to the next house in mid-May and surprise! They also manage to plant a garden! Usually, the house construction goes slower. I tend to get two, maybe three families into their homes before the end of planting season when I don't fire the default male mayor. With nine strong men working under a competent woman's leadership, there's more food for everyone in the year's harvest. Behold, the power of misanthropy! /s

The gardens planted by the Perederiys and the Shchutskys are growing nicely. Looks like squash for sure, and maybe beets? Carrots? I can't always tell from looking at the crops what kind of vegetables they'll be once harvested. Nobody's put up any apiaries yet, which is a shame. It would be nice to have some honey with the buckwheat pancakes they'll all be eating for the next few years while we get the real farms up and running.

From the looks of our construction queue, mayor Olha and her husband will be the last family to move out of their tent and into a real house. Normally, the mayor gets the first house. This feels more fair. A leader should make sure her citizens' needs are met first before claiming luxuries for herself.

Our boys at the forestry have been hard at work stockpiling firewood for winter, and there's enough of it now that it feels safe to designate a few charcoal piles. The women of Stele Scobitura haven't had much to do up until now, not on the town-building front. They can pile up a few stacks of firewood and clay to turn into charcoal. It isn't useful right now, but by the time the burning is complete, there will with any luck be a smithy to make use of it.

The Strietsky family moves into the first house on the second row back from the waterfront. To my surprise, they ALSO plant a garden! It's almost the end of May now, I don't know how high their yield will be with such a short growing season. That's five houses with successful gardens in the first year, more than half the village! We will be ROLLING in vegetables, baby!

The Romanets move in next, the sixth family to settle in a house. It is too late in the summer now to start planting. Their baby is one of the village's youngest citizens. The game helpfully informs me that this little freeloader is an uneducated deadbeat who can't hold down a job.

The Bratkivs move in next, then the Zavaliys. The Zavaliys' yard has a nice row of raspberry bushes! They won't bear fruit this year, but we'll have berries eventually. It's nearing August, the height of summer. Villagers are wearing paths into the ground along what will eventually be the roads of a thriving town, while grass starts to fill in the patches of bare earth left behind at the mostly-dismantled campsite. Only the mayor's tent remains. Hardworking men and women pause from their labors to cool their heels on the waterfront, enjoying the breeze as much as the view. The late-planted pumpkins in the Striletskys' backyard are just barely beginning to turn from pale green to yellow and orange.

The men hoist the last bundles of thatch into place on the ninth house, and the mayor and her husband finally move out of their tent and into the home where they'll raise little Hremyslav and Taras. There is little time for relaxing, though.

A granary is next on the list, to be completed before we start harvesting all these vegetables. The town hall is next--perhaps not as immediately necessary as a smithy or a carpentry, but useful as a warm, dry place to gather once the weather makes it impractical to hold town meetings out under the open sky. Olha the elder immediately hires on Olha the younger as her assistant, and together they set the prices the town will pay and charge for the citizens' harvest--low, in both cases, and equal for buying and selling. The goal this winter is not to profit off the produce trade, only to consolidate the village harvest and redistribute it to those who had no time for planting.

The harvest brings in beets, horseradish, garlic, carrots, and a huge bumper crop of peas--over 450 units of peas from the Silpets' garden alone! The women manage the collection, storage, and sale of the village produce while the men finish building the smithy, carpentry, and thatchery, all essential now that the building supplies they brought to the village with them are running low. With the initial construction rush over, a few men leave the building team to work as blacksmiths and carpenters, and three women hurry to gather reeds from the lake's edge and dry them into thatch before the winter freeze comes. For once, we have full employment for all women and all men in the village: everyone working together to prepare for a long winter.

We did it! Everyone is warm and safe under a thick thatched roof before the snow begins to fall, and everyone has enough firewood and food to last until spring. Winter won't be restful--there are nails to smith, carts to repair, land surveying to be done, farms to plan--but right now, Stele Scobitura takes a break to enjoy a nice bowl of peas and congratulate one another on a job well done.

That's it for now! I'll keep updating on the lives of these little villagers in their little cottages with their little gardens and their little jobs, for as long as I still find it interesting. This game is like the precise correct level of cute for me--not the gritty, coal-stained desperation of Frostpunk, but not the overly-cheerful pastels of Animal Crossing, either. I forsee good things for Olha and Olha and all the citizens under their care.

[courgus]

Once more back in Ostriv, my little hamlet is starting to evolve. Well for now the chicken coop is almost finished and spring is about to start soon. We left the last year behind and January has just started.

DE:

Wieder einmal mehr zurück in Ostriv, wo meine kleine Siedlung / mein kleines Dorf sich zu entwickeln beginnt. Nun, es ist fast soweit das unser Hühnerstall bald fertig gestellt sein wird. Außerdem wird der Frühling schon bald Einzug halten. Wir haben das letzte Jahr hinter uns gelassen und der Januar hat begonnen.

I've made some new shots and here you can see the management tab of the warehouse. You can set up to four goods to store here. Which you choose, for each warehouse, is up to you. The same goes for the amount for every single goods. I only miss one thing. A certain amount how large the storage is.

DE:

Ich habe einige neue Screenshots gemacht und hier kann man das Übersichtsfenster des Warenlagers sehen. Hier kann man bis zu vier verschiedene Waren einlagern. Welche Waren ihr lagert ist euch überlassen. Das kann je Warenhaus festgelegt werden. Das gleiche gilt für die Menge, je Ware. Das einzige was mir fehlt ist eine Anzeige oder der Wert wieviel maximal gelagert werden kann.

After finishing the chicken coop I've set up a construction site for the farm next to the Thatcher. The construction of the farm will take a bit longer due to the missing materials right now.

DE:

Nachdem der Hühnerstall fertiggestellt wurde habe ich die Farm platziert. Sie befindet sich nahe der Hütte des Strohdachdeckers. Der Bau dieses Gebäudes wird etwas mehr Zeit brauchen da noch einige Materialien fehlen.

EA certain and very important mechanic is to handle the production. I've taken my time and set up the production of the blacksmith. After adjusting the production the blacksmith only produces nails. We require a lot of them at the very beginning. You can easily adjust the production.

DE:

Eine sehr wichtige Mechanik ist es die Produktion der Gebäude zu managen. Ich musste die Produktion des Schmieds anpassen damit ich schneller zu den so dringend benötigten Nägeln komme. Es ist sehr einfach gestaltet die Produktion anzupassen, was das managen sehr stark vereinfacht.

The farm is about to grow lager and lager. Still, we have a lack of goods. Right now we have a lack of thatch.

DE:

Die Farm wird größer und größer, jedoch haben wir immer noch ein Problem mit der Versorgung des notwendigen Materials. Zurzeit fehlt immer noch Schilf zur Bedachung.

It is almost spring and the snow is about to melt right now. The new season is just around the corner and will bring new opportunities.

Conclusion (actual)

Ostriv is a game which reminds me strongly of banished. It introduces new mechanics and uses the experiences which you can have gained from banished. Due to the management options for the buildings you can handle the production of the goods for every single building very easy. That's why the user can easily adjust the production for his needs. Actually Ostriv is still a WIP and in early access (Alpha 4). The game has definitely great potential.

DE:

Es ist fast schon Frühling und der Schnee beginnt langsam aber sicher zu schmelzen. Die Neue Jahreszeit ist nur ein kleines Stück um die nächste Ecke und bringt uns neue Möglichkeiten.

Fazit (Aktuell):

Ostriv ist ein Spiel das mich stark an Banished erinnert. Es führt gleichsam neue Mechaniken ein und nutzt die Erfahrungen, welche man aus Banished gesammelt hat. Wiederum sind die Möglichkeiten der Verwaltung von Gebäuden und deren Produktion sehr schön anzusehen und es macht die Arbeit sehr viel leichter da man jeden Teil der Produktion sehr genau erfassen kann. Es ist immer noch im Early Access mit der Alpha 4 - aktuell. Jedoch sehe ich großes Potenzial.

[boredenthusiast]

Who doesn’t dream of being in control? Who doesn’t look at those in power and think, “I could do better!”? Fortunately, there are several games out there that allow players to jump right into a position of power and make those difficult choices (and you won’t even need to win an election).  

City Building games are a long-time love of mine, because I know without a doubt that when something goes wrong, it was my fault for not planning for it appropriately. Meanwhile, when a disaster is averted and the city prospers, that’s all based on solid work on my part. Which games do this best for a variety of platforms? That’s this list!

[red-faced-wolf]

Out of all the city building sims I’ve played, I really don’t like Ostriv. That game is a bitch to get going

[limbriaplays]

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Ostriv

[ PC / 2020 / Yevhen8 ]

Ostriv is an indie city building and management game set in 18th Century Ukraine. You play the governor of a newly formed town and are tasked with guiding this community's growth into a fully-fledged city. The basic mechanics will likely seem familiar to fans of the genre: place buildings that handle certain tasks, gather resources to afford said buildings, and generally try to manage your town as efficiently as possible to ensure its inhabitants are well fed and cared for. But Ostriv's developers are also trying to raise the bar for city builders, doing away with grid-based systems and allowing players to lay out their city in a 3D landscape however they want. The hope is this enables you to create a more organic-looking town, rather than one that looks artificial and cobbled together from preset pieces. Ostriv also sets different challenges for players that take into account things like weather - an example being to build enough homes for your villagers before winter sets in. The campaign mode also expands to the point where your decisions affect the future of the whole country.

Ostriv is currently in Early Access and you can find out more here.

[catsaar]

10 Random Questions ❤

Rule: Answer 10 random Questions and tag 10 simmers!

tagged by @budgie2budgie and @boolproppin Thank you!

Time to reveal how boring I really am lol

1. If you could travel one place in the world where would you travel? Definitely Japan. I’ve been to Tokyo once and I really miss it and want to see more of the country.

2. What do you do in your free time away from sims? I watch a lot of Youtube and Netflix, keeping in touch with all my friends, volunteering at the local cat café and my 3 rescue cats also demand their fair share of attention. Once possible again I’d like to add traveling back to that list.

3. What other games do you play besides the sims? Ostriv and Cities Skylines. But mostly just a simmer.

4. How tall are you? 177 cm or 5ft9

5. One random interest of yours? I’m very into psychology, human and feline.

6. Current favourite bands or artists? None atm, my depression made me loose my passion for music and I still need to regain that.

7. Something your looking forward to? Meeting up with my friends, mom and stepdad which should be happening fairly soon!!!

8. Current favourite films? Been more into series than movies lately so I don’t even know what current movies there are. Told you I’m boring.

9. What food could you not live without? Pizza! Pizza is love, pizza is life. 

10. Favourite series (book or movie series)? Hmmm never been that much into book or movie series cus the first one is always the best anyway. Only book series I ever read was Game of Thrones so I guess that. I prefer to get the full story instead, hence why I only watch tv series if I have time to binge the whole season in one sitting.

Tagging @cyberth0t @kazuaru @simstrouble @jenba @lancesalmo @oshinsims @oatberrytea @cillaben @s4simomo and you!! (also if you’ve already done this or don’t feel like it, it’s all good!)

[bakafox]

Bringing Ostriv Back

So...I'm playing Ostriv again today, and it's been perfect for my stress levels, and while I've mentioned the game here before (I think???) I figured it's time to mention it again.

If you like very chill and pretty low-stakes city building & resource management games that involve no combat, Ostriv may be something to check out.

It's set in Ukraine in like the 1700's (Ok I am maybe mis-dating it but am not spotting confirmation on the store page or anywhere rn). It's a passion project by a Ukrainian dev, and while updates were slowed down by the invasion of Ukraine, he just dropped a big update a couple of months or so ago.

The graphics may not be the most AMAZING the world has ever seen, but they are very charming, and based on actual architecture from that era- I've seen pics on forums that show real versions of buildings side by side with the in-game ones and they're definitely recognizable.

It currently is pretty much impossible to go absolutely bankrupt, bc the game gives 'loans' if you go too into the negative, but you can accidentally starve your town out, or otherwise not satisfy people enough so that they emigrate away and leave you with nothing- but still, it's relaxing and low stakes compared to say, Banished.

There's no grid you need to build on, you can turn snapping on or off, and the economy where you grow the big crops like wheat and potatoes in farms employing the villagers, but also buy their excess garden veggies to resell so there's a good food variety for everyone is neat, IMO.

I just find it relaxing, and very, very, pretty, and when not on sale it's about $25US on Steam. It's early access, but very playable already. I know mileage with games varies, but I have personally played roughly 215 hours, so it's been worth the $25 for me.

There's ONE piece of decorative DLC that's recently been put on the store, which some may complain is hugely over-priced, but it's to help fund the development further, and I can only guess that development's gotten more hectic and difficult with the ongoing war.

[pidibidi]

DEVLOG 01: THE FIRST 40 DAYS – PART 1

‘I make my own Animal Crossings. With Blackjack. And Hookers!’

Were you guys as excited as me when the new Animal Crossing New Horizons was about to launch? On March 20 it was the time: It launched and with it my Youtube algorithm spilled plenty of Let’s Plays on shore for me to watch. Too bad I didn’t own a Switch and so watching other people play New Horizons was the best I had.

So. As someone with a year of Hobby Game Dev experience and the Unity Engine installed, there was one logical step: I will make my own Animal Crossing – and combine it with another genre I adore: City building games like Cities: Skylines or the indie game Ostriv.

The concept: You build a small village and with every house, office, church, school, etc. a new unique villager moves into your town. Talk to them, get them to know and learn about their needs and wishes. Fulfill them to unlock new buildings and new villagers. The overarching goal: To ‘collect’ all possible villagers and create your very own cozy village.

A First Prototype

On April 4th 2020 I made my first prototype. I experimented with some functionality I needed to find a solution for as for I never coded anything similar. Especially I worked on the possibility of a randomly generated grid of nodes. The nodes will be the foundation of every building which will be built.

Surprisingly, it kind of worked. I had some messy Raycast Detection Hit Collider Code to detect if there already exists a building on the corresponding node. This mess I was able to delete and work with the OnTriggerEnter function.

 Random Levels and First Blender Models

With the prototype working and my own doubts if I can build anything like my vision dispelled, I started to work on the proper game. Most of the work I get done in the evenings when coming home from my daytime job or on the weekends while also my master thesis is waiting for me to be finished.

I began to make first models of buildings and to improve my Blender skills. My first experiences with Blender I made earlier this year and I am quite happy with the assets I created using it:

I improved my node spawning and set a limit to 75 rows and 75 columns of nodes. For a short time, I must have been insane and created a grid with 500 x 500 nodes. Every time I wanted to try something out and go into Play Mode it took 10 to 15 minutes to load. Very annoying if you just want to try out if a button works as intended… For now my Node Spawning Script looks like this:

Have a good look at the lines 25 to 32. It’s the Load Method which will be called, if a saved game is loaded. 

Ah yes… save systems. Building mine cost me about ten days of work. More about that in the second Devlog about the very beginning of my first big game project which is called: Millville.

[tonkiflo]

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