I've been plugging away at Simcity 4 for about a month. It started as a project to clean up my plugins collection and create sets of plugins whose contents are somewhat thematically related. Having mostly completing that I moved on to test…

Recently I undertook a small project of sorts to go looking on my hard drives for old music files and to load them into an iTunes library. At the start I decided to load them into iTunes running on OS9 on a PowerPC Mac emulated on SheepSha…

There's lots of floaters going on here... A side view to try and sort out where stuff is.... Layers of hexagons, though one isn't a floater. Slightly larger hexagons floating about. The different colours used given this an illusion of look…

First, nail clippers at Haneda Airport Terminal 3.... Next, a tube of hydrocortisone cream...someone probably couldn't get any relief from itchy skin after dropping this. This was inside the terminal near the observation deck. And someone …

Not too much going on in this town. There's a modified version of the default town and one maxed out floater.... That little bench looks like a nice place to chill...

An overhead view of the town. Several views of the town. Yes, there is a staircase leading up to the middle level town. I thought that these hanging lights might light up in the dark... ...but they don't. Passageways under a section of the…

The project started off as yet another attempt to build a floating town. Yet, I couldn't manage to build one. In the end I had a bunch of loops and lines held up by girders. I attempted to add some visual appeal by colour coding the blocks…

An old screen shot of the town. Focusing on the lighthouse tower. Not all gardens with four, five, or six sided centres can be set up to have large garden ornaments. The squarish one to the left with two "K" shaped path intersections can't…

Where my building a floating town impulse got out of control.... Fun with girders. Hmm, the floor is a bit on the thin side. Plenty of clothes lines. The lighthouse tower poking above the floating clouds, err towns.

With the advent of perfect circles, it soon became obvious that one could create flying rectangular shaped towns.... This shot shows what isn't rooted into the sea/ground. This structure in the foreground could be converted into a flying b…

This overhead shot shows the circle of six intersections, each one of them an intersection of five paths. A slightly different perspective view. A ground level view of the garden. Birds checking out the scenery. A direct overhead view. Thi…

A few years ago an update to how Townscaper creates its underlying grids allowed users to create circular or square shaped town. This is one of my early circular creations. At the time I took this screenshot the game didn't include clockto…

If I recall correctly, if four or more paths meet in a garden then the game will place a large garden ornament, a sphere on a pedestal, at the intersection. In this first view the game hasn't added any props or windows to the buildings. De…

Somewhere at the bottom of this mess one can spot the original game default town.... I suspect the noodle-like mess above was added after the town and the bottom floater were constructed. The town at the bottom surprising doesn't have any …

This one features a large covered over floating town with a town underneath that has been built up to the maximum size. Looking up from sea level. An up tight look at one of the towers with a pulley and hook. The red and yellow buildings i…

First off, here is the town as I had left it in my archives.... I've turned on the grid but it isn't aligned visually with the town floating above it. I added a tracing of the outside perimeter of the floating town on the grid. I then adde…

Today's entry features a sandwich like town opened up to reveal three floating structures. Had a bit of fun topping off the top layer with a castle-like structure.... A look at what's underneath. Pathways in the garden. Plenty of arches do…

This town simply has had a colour change applied to parts of it.... One odd ball situation I encountered withing the game; towns which I deleted would reappear when I restarted the game after shutting down. I tracked down the folder where …

The following town has the appearance of single grand structure; plenty of arches, a ceiling uncluttered by black beams, and a lattice style covering that lets in light. A view of the central area and a few feathered visitors.... A viewpoi…

The previous two entries sport rings of floating towns but if my memory serves me well they probably weren't the first successful attempts I took at making such structures. In all likelihood, this or the following entry were the first ones…

It took a few good looks to spot the difference between this one and the previous one. Having spotted the difference I think there is a possibility this town was built before the one posted yesterday; I probably corrected the colour differ…

...Being a series on Townscaper projects I've undertaken over the years... ** Town 0 ** The game starts you off with a small town consisting of two buildings; one red and one yellow. It's wedge shaped and features a staircase down to water…

Last Tuesday I was telling a class about my new year party (Shin Nen Kai) I had had with friends on Sunday. I mentioned that we had ordered duck shabu-shabu. There was a puzzled look on one student's face and another student tried her hand…