one more cute disaster… it’s hard here in paradise
Revisiting Teardown for the expansion campaign and thinking with awe, once again, about how much more work it must be to build a level in that game when you have to model not just the surface of every wall, but also every interior layer and their distinct physical properties
I've learned a bit about construction and materials for environment design reasons, but to be honest, I have no idea what I'd find if I pried up my own floorboards. More wood? Concrete? Insulation?
Hardspace: Shipbreaker has some of that too! You break open the ships, find all the wiring, and then even have to separate them to recycle correctly.
The ship design there is so fun. I played Hardspace Shipbreaker and was like “oh all the separate modules are interesting. I guess this is a concession to the design and the procedural elements?” but then I watched a video of a real cruise ship being assembled out of prefabbed cubes that snap together and I realized that the construction is actually just real.
