Ever since I was a kid, I was fantasizing this exact thing, cities, malls, supermarkets etc. That's a great concept, thank you so much.

I love this. I particularly like your point around the fact that creating procedural content is an artform in its own. The planning, consideration and implementation of well thought out procedural assets that work well with each other takes almost more time, effort and skill to creating a single bespoke environment.

I was gonna say "time to port this to vr!" ... Then i realized it WAS vr, and i was SO EXCITED

You're on to something here. You're doing beautifully. I only warn that you don't overexpose too soon, or attempt to do too much too fast. That has killed other games that had great promise. You're doing great so far. It seems like a good framework. Remember to keep sight of your end vision, and don't get too hung up on details at this stage. Right now, your focus is to work out the bigger aspects. Details can be fine tuned later on, especially with updates, should you decide to do that. Additionally, you might want to consider making some kind of low resource "memory" for any characters or objects a user interacts with to prevent becoming too liminal. That may be a few steps ahead of where you are, but it is something to keep in mind. Additionally, don't forget your target audience. keep in mind what hardware limitations they may have as you continue to construct the software. You'll want to balance functionality with appearance, as both are necessary for quality. Lastly, I don't know exactly where you are going with this in the end, but if you want it to take off, you'll need a core point. The world generation is a great core mechanic, but without any purpose to go with it, it will get old fast. There needs to be an incentive to cause people to continually explore. This comes from someone who used to play Minecraft. Eventually even random generation gets repetitive, so there has to be something else for the player to chew on, whether it be social interaction on multiplayer, some kind of "where's waldo" thing, or full character immersion. I love what you have here, you just need to make sure you either have a plot, interaction, rewards, or something similar to keep the player going. Novelty is a tough thing to simulate, let alone make authentically. I wish you the best of luck!"

Exploring a backrooms level that is actually pretty chill as there are no threats and being able to go inside the places and explore them seems so fun and it makes me feel something I can't describe in words.... Like this is so good!

Still looking forward to more. This was the video that introduced me to your excellent work

Wow! Imagine a GTA or a Driving Simulator full open world using this procedural technique. Would be very amazing!

I am a programmer with a background in civil engineering and building design and I am absolutely loving the attention to details you manage to show here. For architectural inputs, I would recommend watch a few videos from The Aesthetic City, Strongtown, Not Just Bike and DamiLee youtube channels. I think you will figure out the codes, it's the foundation understanding of what makes aesthetically pleasing living spaces that should be more difficult to grasp and present as you develop further.

i always like looking at those giant glass skyscrapers irl and thinking how crazy it is how many rooms and floors there are, getting to explore them to my hearts content, even virtually, sounds awesome

This city is Beautiful! The color palate generation you mentioned makes A huge difference in making it look unique. The general reason for this Ive heard from other procgen talks is that the association of things when scattered in the real world are both naturally hierarchical and ordered by scale meaning that smaller local changes are highly effected by the larger macro changes being overlapped but not so much the other way around. Procedural noise has great examples of this in how the methods used to calculate the most lifelike noises all rely on this kind of layering in the form of octaves. I have plans for making large procedural spaces for my own games as well, but this reminds me of an idea I had for A large collaborative city as A publicly reproducible meeting space. The idea being that instead of using the classic approach of A metaverse that uses the ability for anyone to make things as A competitive system akin to the incentive structures in social media, naturally pulling people apart and isolating them where their least likely to change. Instead we collaboratively build one big space that's interesting to explore because it reflects the ideas of so many coming together to create A place that wants to bring people together. Like A park. But right now all my efforts are in designing tooling to make building participation in large community gamedev projects like this easier, because its what I want to focus on most. Thank you for showing this! I find it really inspiring.

This as a concept is truly incredible. The applications are pretty limitless and could make many games thought impossible, fully realized. I think using AI to create interactable NPCs in the environment could be a good addition.

Looks great! Appreciate your goal of creating a space for certain activities. Driving through a city is something I’ve been doing a lot in games. It’s has a special feeling to it.

💯💯💯Spectacular job! I'm impressed with the stylistic and mood differences you've managed to generate. Keep it going!💓💓💓

absolutely insane, very excited to see this develop and I’ll definitely be sticking around :D

This is really impressive. Congratulations!

Spectacular job! I'm impressed with the stylistic and mood differences you've managed to generate. Keep it going!

This looks amazing. Just from the video the game looks like it has a really great sense of scale. I'm looking forward to future updates.

This looks relaxing and chill. +1 Great work!

I love the vibe of this - even as-is, just being able to walk endlessly or drive would make an great experience. I've spent way longer in "Aircar" (on steam) than some actual games and would love to see something along the same lines where you can just enjoy the scenery. Please keep working on it!

Fantastic work! Huge fan of this approach. Keep it up :)

Just gained yourself a follower, can’t wait to see what this turns into

Thank you for your work

This looks amazing. Keep it up!

That's very very cool. I know you have a lot to do on this, but I eally would love to see this in my Quest 3 soon. :) Extremely well done and would love to see even part of it, if it can be uploaded into VRchat, I'd be happy to test it out for you.

This is all I've ever wanted in video games. It looks amazing already and I'm so excited to see what's next, no matter what it is!

omg i love your work!

This looks amazing! I'm fascinated by procedural generation, as it's about designing what is in effect a system of physical laws that govern the construction/evolution of a pocket universe. What you've built seems like a fantastic foundation for all kinds of emergent gameplay. It sounds like you plan to add conversational NPCs - it would be interesting to procedurally generate little lives for them (defining where they live, where they work, their relationships, interests, histories, etc.) You could generate all of this contextual information for each character, then use that in a prompt for a large language model so that it's all reflected in their conversations with the player. So many possibilities! I'll be watching with great interest.

I JUST started working on procedural tech for a KZfaq Short series I have planned for a while. I am using Blender for my asset generation, getting everything into UE5 for final renders, and to utilize the game engine AI to help generate crowds, sounds, and weather. This project that you are working on BLOWS MY MIND!!! This was WAY beyond anything that I thought a single dev could do. Do you have a discord?

Looks amazing! Well done 👏😃

I'm glad you're making it with VR compatibility in mind!

Looks very cool! Keep up the good work friend

Looks great! I'm hooked

Wow amazing work!

Amazing job and best of luck finding collabs and resources to further elevate your dream! I always had the same frustration of non-enterable buildings and undetailed interiors while looking through windows. I will follow your progress with great interest!!! Tell us non-developers how we can support you!

Clean!, Youre doing it well mate :)

Amazing work :)

Really cool idea. Subbed.

WOW, amazing!

Someone get this person a grant

You just made your own GTA 6 Bro.

I've wanted to see this implemented the right way, I played a game recently that had Procedurally generated cities but it was done so badly and was repetitive and boring. I hope your work pays off!

Another comment: Please please please please, dont let this be another indie project that never releases, and gets abandoned. I see this as the next biggest vr game.

I think nobody has achieved that before. It completely relieves the frustration of partially explorable cities. It can be interesting for any kind of game that features cities. If games like elite dangerous had your engine, they would have a future again. Congratulations ! You're doing great.

It's not tagged as VR on the Steam listing, but I see the VR tag in the description for this video, so I hope that's correct. I'm looking forward to seeing where this goes. I'm a big fan of casual exploration games. Already added to my wishlist.

youre an artist bro

Amazing work. I hope you can commercialize this and make it "moddable" so people could add their own assets. I make Cyberpunk cities in Blender + Cities:Skylines and I'd jump at the chance to build procedurally.

This is epic 📈

I absolutely love this, and I would love to give it an independent look and feedback. The work you've done here is stellar, and I like the approach you took to have seed based implementation. Not sure how much I can add to the development side, but as a VR user with an index, I would love to help test and again provide feedback if I can. I also have a small gaming/computer channel and would like to talk about it when the time comes. Let me know how I can help! Thank you!

I've wanted a game like this for a quarter century now - at least as far back as dreaming big while playing the original Grand Theft Auto and Half-Life. Introversion Software's Subversion sounded very promising but abandoned for Prison Architect. Watch Dogs and some of the Elder Scrolls games hinted at greatness and Shadows of Doubt comes damn close, but the NPCs still feel shallow / inconsequential. From what I can tell, the holy grail is a game that can seamlessly transition between liminality and consequence and back again. "Oh shit - I negatively impacted that NPC and its social connections long term. Thankfully they are but one / a few in an infinite sea of faces to play with" but also "I would like to engage with them again to affirm the consequence of my interactions and either to repair the harm or torment them - the choice of which I am yet undecided"

I feel this is the future way more then backgrounds with invisible walls to restrict the player because they are essentially flat and/or only to be viewed single perspective.

This is great.

Thats really impressive, it looks way cleaner than most procedural generation I've seen

What we need is procedurally-generated vehicle makes and model lists (model years, special editions snd collabs) and to bring back combat racing games.

amazing

Nah bruh, I was never frustrated to NOT have to visit a million buildings that have nothing to do with the story...

this is so underrated!

Now add a Slender Man who can spook you around any corner.

Reddit brought me here. This is wholesome, could never imagine this diverse environments can be procedurally generated! Next step - adding some characters with local LLM?

this is so cool. i was working on something like this on my own but 2d and wanted tomake it 3d eventually. i really want to be able to get on a train and go around places. i don't know what engine you're using but i would be interested in collaborating, i've done some unity and my project was in javascript in cities skylines i always wanted to be able to go on the ground level and walk around the city i built and go underground on subways and stuff

Nice

😱Increíble tu trabajo muy hermoso y me encantaron los detalles se ve muy bien 😀😀 pero solo tengo una pregunta para cuando sale al menos una Beta?😃

Cool! I am making a city generator myself with completely different aesthetics and criteria, focusing on non-linear street patterns and public transit, with no building interiors.

THAT'S SO SICK WTF

Holy cow! When do you plan to release this?

Love it! Would love to collab!

Really cool stuff! I particularly like the vibe each lighting gives the room. Definitely feels classy or moody. Are the lights also procedurally generated? So perhaps I can stumble into a office that is having a rave?

This is absolutely BRILLIANT!!! It's genius. It takes the open world concept to a whole new level. I think you've figured out the next generation in gaming and even archviz. This kind of generative design is exactly what I've been looking to do as an Indie VR developer...a way to develop unique but persistent environments that can be revisited and infinitely explored, inside and out, without having to plan every single room in every building in advance, or having it look "cartoony". One question: Have you explored ways to integrate NPC's (non-playable characters) into the environment on the fly without killing performance? The biggest challenge to environments with this level of realism is that such vast spaces are never empty. It needs people, animals, birds, etc. But NPC's would need to both look realistic and behave normally for the environment to feel truly real. Have you figured out how to make them generative too? Maybe triggered by entering the building or crossing some kind of boundary?

I think adding some stalls (like street food stall cars), parked vehicles and on the streets as particles will actually give it more life in the outside. Little things like that makes it feel more lived in

Turn this into a vr social game and it would blow up

im trying to be able to do this as well! amazing work! im new to design and im stuck on a dumb part, to resize something i try to alt+click and its creating duplicates instead of dragging and resizing, am i doing something wrong?

Please add Futuristic cyberpunk City enviroment. I would love to explore or tour future city in VR

So it does sounds very intetesting and like an amazing piece of art, but what is the gameplay going to be like?

Feel like walking around in matrix online

This looks insanely promising. Incredible work! What language/engine are you using? I’d be interested in talking with you - I work in AI and feel like that could be useful for adding even more variety to your system.

Amazing work! What engine did you use?

I'm on board. That city looked realistic and to think it can go on forever. And the only game close to a good driving around the city game is gta 5 however none of the buildings are explorable like the city you created. I think it would be exciting to see some AI npc's like chatgpt in the simulation. Maybe making this like a city survival game where you start with nothing and have to work your way up to get a car and an apartment that you rent or purchase real estate that you can rent out. If you give the npc's details about their lives and work schedules you could even work as a private investigator to solve crimes in the city. I think the reward for adding content and systems to the game would be worth it for how much play time you could have with it. Anyways I could talk about this all day so I'll leave it at that.

Beautiful work. Just wondering what's the genre of the game? What's the main gameloop? Life sim? GTA-clone? Walking simulator?

How neat! I'm guessing you're using PCG? I'd be curious to hear how you managed interiors! Are they fully proc, or do you have some authoring? I'm planning a more authored approach per building, using grid ranges to dictate "rooms" where subgraphs generate those interior spaces. I've only just started though. BTW, I saw on discord that big changes are coming in 5.4, namely "5.4 will have re-entering pins for subgraphs, so you get the result of the previous iteration, it is not possible with 5.3"

I found a place where I want to live... don't keep me waiting :)

Can you add a few much taller buildings as viewpoints?

Imagine if it was populated by gpt powered npcs!

One day, when I learn what's necessary to collaborate, I will. 😅 I have a dream more or less related to that.

I wish I could also do that, could do guide me, I'm just started learning game dev

Damn thats some backrooms type shi

hi there, do you use an engine for this?

i would love to join you and i would help with designing buildings but also i would give ideas for public transport - for example i would explore and get myself ideas in game but designing buildings - i would design the building with 50 floors with express elevator and local elevators serving certain floors with basements and linkways to other buidlings

propose your project to ubisoft, they love open worlds without gameplay😀

When is the release date ?

Make the project available? I would like to collab.

Why is this branded as a Second Life video ? Is this UE5 or not

only 2k likes?

Who the hell hates procedural generation!? It saves time, money, and labour-!!

Please teach me

Meanwhile In Starfield........

It sure looks good at first glance but after an hour of two... Even with more budget, procedural cities will always become boring again after some time.

Do you have a discord?

This looks really great. Out of curiosity, are interiors pre-designed as templates that the algorithm randomly chooses? Or is all the furniture procedurally placed by a set of rules? I'm currently brain storming a cyberpunk game and I'm contemplating procedural generation for the city as well. But, it seems a lot tougher than procedural dungeons and minecraft worlds