The entire city of San Francisco as a video game

Posted by centrosphere 6 hours ago

The entire city of San Francisco as a video game(sf.thijs.gg)

https://twitter.com/cdngdev/status/2091909073038082139, https://xcancel.com/cdngdev/status/2091909073038082139

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ironqcold 3 hours ago||

Looks like an atmospheric explorer kinda thing. Low-poly SF where you can just wander around and take in the city, pretty chill. I dunno, I really enjoyed it

K0IN 4 hours ago||

funny timing, i was exploring the same, some friends and me play alot of geogussr (a game where you put into streetview somewhere on the world, and have to find out where) lately.

I want to make it more video game like, cause the jumps of google maps make me motion sick.

I used google streetview as image source (cause you need to read signs, cars, see geometry) and colmap to reconstruct 3d chunks.

But it never really worked that well, jumps in time (cause the google car does not always continuously scan) and the image density is just too low, but was a fun side project.

arjie 4 hours ago||

This was loads of fun haha. I would have liked to have optionally clicked a button and started at my current physical location because the tile load time dominated how long it took to get there.

asveikau 4 hours ago|

I was able to get it to stand directly on the roof of the structure I'm sitting at. (Which is kind of a glitch, it walked right over the structure as if it's a hill.)

When I noticed it getting choppy I realized I had filled most of my VRAM with an LLM, so I unloaded that and it got better.

Pretty cool project.

atum47 4 hours ago||

I feel like I did that walk, in person (the tourist areas for sure). I've been to SF three times now, most of the time I'm walking everywhere. Even found a place that sells Brazilian coxinha

Jeremy1026 4 hours ago||

We got GTA SF before GTA VI.

planb 4 hours ago|

When I was in SF the first time some spots seemed weirdly familiar to me. Only later that day I remembered that I probably know them from GTA San Andreas (but maybe also the Full House intro)

Jeremy1026 4 hours ago||

It is fun when you play a game based on a place, then visit the place. There have been a few places that I've been to that were levels of the Tony Hawk series. I enjoyed how the game designers were able to take what was otherwise pretty mundane, and tweak it into a fun map, while not just making it all up and losing the source location.

er4hn 2 hours ago||

very fun game. I don't live there any longer but I "ran" the commute from my apartment to work. It felt very nostalgic to go through this.

englishspot 6 hours ago||

my first experience with San Francisco in a video game was through the City Escape stage in Sonic Adventure 2. and I didn't even know then that it was San Francisco (I had never been there when I played the game). only realized this when I visited the city many years later.

littlexsparkee 1 hour ago||

my first exposure was Driver and Tony Hawk's Pro Skater, later skateboard videos

cosmojg 6 hours ago|||

Haha, I know that stage by heart, and I've never been to San Francisco. I had no idea that's what it was modeled after!

pete5x5 4 hours ago||

Also love that level, but mostly because the song is such a banger

eli_gottlieb 3 hours ago||

I was just thinking, this game needs a snowboard I can use to jump, do tricks, and smack around people's cars.

fragmede 1 hour ago|

American Truck simulator also has SF in it!

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