BLOCKTOWN [Github Download] : Create Your Own Fictional Architecture
BLOCKTOWN is a community art project powered through your comments and engagement. It’s an experimental game of city-making, a digital Madurodam. With each post, a new layer of buildings will be added to the Town. Your photographs, quotes, stories and feedback are the raw materials that drive construction for each new layer.
Hello Fellow 3D Modelers!
Interested in participating in BLOCKTOWN? I need your help to assemble new buildings! If you'd like to participate beyond image comments, download the Rhino template file I've prepared on Github and assemble a custom building of your own. Once you re-upload it, I'll add it to the Town.
How to Play
Each building and landscape element of BLOCKTOWN will be derived directly from your comments and contributions. Photographs, quotes and stories will inspire their own design logic and manifest themselves as 3D characters within the Town. Buildings will be added to the Town with every new post. BLOCKTOWN will be treated as a living, breathing art-project within a digital canvas, always subject to change.
Some Assembly Required [Advanced Mode]
Download the kit of blocks to play and improvise a building of your own. Here's a look at the Rhino file that contains a building footprint to build within and a set of pre-made blocks for you to assemble. For the advanced modelers among us, you can customize your own "block" if you like! Follow the directions included in the model space and re-upload the file to the "blocktown" Github repository.
An Experiment in Building Community
Through this project - I hope to engage in a broader dialogue with fellow Steemians about their own sense of place and placemaking. These types of game-structured conversations are a fascinating way of learning more about what a person defines as his or her “community.” It’s a way of connecting to one another through the geographies we are deeply tied to and knowledgeable of. In a world of links, likes, upvotes and IP addresses, it’s exciting to find ways of bridging the digital divide and connecting with those on the other side of the screen.
Let's get building!
![follow-voronoi.gif](https://steemitimages.com/DQmbHYxpq8UaRE2fHH1BfeM2KKTLm1p2QuT5uKUVBhMqf6b/follow-voronoi.gif)
damn, looks like good fun, block by block (-:
It is fun! Thanks @clumsysilverdad :)
This reminds me when I got views from isometrics at the university, on the other hand i think you can create many differents projects with the blocks all depends of your creativity.Regards
It'll be really interesting to see what people come up with, I'll do a post compiling all of the variations people create. Thanks!
Wow, I can see a lot of time spent on this if I download that file. It will be like building Star Wars models with my son's Legos. Way to take collaboration to the next level!!!
Thanks Jodie! It is certainly time consuming haha. I guess this is a manifestation of my early interest in legos... it only makes sense to place all that play somewhere on the blockchain :D
Thanks for the hospitality at STEEM Park to start the year!
Great initiative
https://steemit.com/steempark/@jeffjagoe/visiting-steem-park-in-brooklyn-ny-an-epic-start-to-2018
Thanks for the message! So glad you got to visit, and even in the cold weather the signage has a nice pop to it ;)
We'll be sprucing it up in time for spring with a nice new coat of paint. Thanks again for sharing this!
No problem, let me know when the paint party begins and maybe I'll take the train down to join in on the fun. Would love to help however I can!
We will! Hopefully we do a big meetup / picnic in the park sometime in the Spring. We'll let you know :D
This looks interesting. I'm working on converting this to a Blender file to make it more accessible.
EDIT: Here it is, if anyone thinks it might be useful.
https://github.com/BuzzPuff/blocktown-blender
Thanks for doing this @buzzpuff! :D
Uh, pardon me @voronoi...
I just kind of went a little crazy in this description, so I turned it into a post. Here's the link:
https://steemit.com/blocktown/@finleyexp/blocktown-welcome-to-the-villa-numina-a-place-where-creatives-abide
This is a great idea!
Thunderbird would love to see a Wrestling Ring built! This is a very cool project! :D:D:D![ring.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/640x0/https://res.cloudinary.com/hpiynhbhq/image/upload/v1515087741/mni6krywfdjildf1up30.jpg)
Awesome!
it will be fun for 1-99 ages. I will see the process and hope you have good tutorial how to play. :)
Absolutely :) all you have to do is comment with an image idea. Check out the post, here - https://steemit.com/art/@voronoi/blocktown-layer-0002-7-a-game-for-collaborative-art-and-city-building
Can't be organically design isn't it. Feng Shui #zero Needs lots of improvement. Keep working on it. So far too square to be applied to my urban designs.
I'll hustle some blocks around and see if we can improve upon those Shui vibes ;)
Great idea! It would be awesome if this would be in webgl + online.
Absolutely! Something like that might be in the works :)