The entire city of San Francisco as a video game
89 points by centrosphere 2 hours ago | 31 comments
https://twitter.com/cdngdev/status/2091909073038082139, https://xcancel.com/cdngdev/status/2091909073038082139

tuchsen 45 minutes ago
Ah nice demo! I flew around SF for way too long just enjoying the sights. On my M3 Air using Chrome it eventually just turns into blobs and my character get stuck, takes about twenty minutes. I popped open the DevTools and the game loads in at like 400mb but after five or so minutes I'm at 2GB of memory consumption. I'd guess that you need to have your agent do a couple of passes for memory leaks. Very fun otherwise!
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josephjrobison 49 minutes ago
Very amazing. And this is the worst it will ever be. We'll soon be exploring 4k versions of this and we can open every trash can in Tunis. Fascinating. Had a lot of fun (tedious tho) going out to Alcatraz and figuring out how to get in.
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stronglikedan 41 minutes ago
> Had a lot of fun (tedious tho) going out to Alcatraz

Curious, did you use a vehicle/glider, or did you take the heel-toe express all the way there?

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whycombinetor 34 minutes ago
You can activate flying mode by double-jumping and crank the speed up with +.
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forthwall 2 hours ago
Kinda funny game, though if you want a bit more fidelity, but less control, Microsoft Flight Simulator has a pretty good version of SF.

Though as for games that use SF (but not 1:1) Watch Dogs 2 is a pretty good proxy, though my favorite video game interpretation of San Francisco is from GTA San Andreas (San Fierro)

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HanClinto 28 minutes ago
Very impressed with the Watch Dogs series of games for this purpose.

We recently used Watch Dogs Legion to prep for a trip to London to get more familiar with the city. Set the game on peaceful mode and just walked around and did virtual sight-seeing instead of playing missions. It's a surprisingly good recreation of the city, and we really appreciated getting some familiarity with the place before we visited.

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Apocryphon 26 minutes ago
Not bad, though based on the screenshot Lake Merritt in Oakland looks not to scale.

https://watchdogs.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Bay_Area

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recursive 52 minutes ago
Loading information just goes forever.

Console shows CORS violations and WebGL errors.

Firefox on Windows. Recent ThinkPad provided by my employer.

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juancn 7 minutes ago
Nice, but the camera system is hard to grasp.

I cannot turn the camera for the life of me. The camera is always facing north!

Edit: I feel dumb now, I needed to click the trackpad to rotate, somehow I expected a two finger drag to move the camera :facepalm:

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tommek4077 4 minutes ago
Mouse-click (left) and turn the mouse.
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englishspot 2 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.
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cosmojg 2 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!
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bengotow 36 minutes ago
Ahh wow this is awesome! Is there a way to deep link to a lat/long?
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aselimov3 31 minutes ago
How do I turn the camera? Stuck with a single perspective.
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aselimov3 25 minutes ago
Mouse capture works in chrome but not safari for me
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tims33 36 minutes ago
I was thinking of the game Outrun in the Red Ferrari driving around SF.
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fusslo 57 minutes ago
man what happened to loading bars?

I'm sitting here watching the block bounce in a circle and I have no idea if the game is actually loading or not. Tried turning off PopUpOff. Tried turning off adblock.

as it turns out it just isn't loading (firefox on win 11, if that matters)

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nickandbro 2 hours ago
Crazy how they have GTA San Francisco before GTA 6
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SeenNotHeard 2 hours ago
GTA Baghdad by the Bay
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DonHopkins 14 minutes ago
What's the actual game? Try not to step in doo-doo?
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busymom0 32 minutes ago
Will try on my Mac. On my iPhone, I got the spinner wheel for a while and my phone started getting hot, so I killed it.
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selimthegrim 2 hours ago
<Cisco Heat cries in the corner>
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aaroninsf 33 minutes ago
Chrome on MacOS: largely unusable (over fiber); POV stuck and will not move except in a tiny area.

I don't mind the lazy asset loading; I just can't go anywhere outside a couple blocks from the start position. M3 MBA.

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zuzululu 19 minutes ago
where did you get the 3d map assets? also if one was serious about turning this into a game how would you go about it
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arionhardison 33 minutes ago
This is insanely awesome man; I turned the entire SF gov into an AI Gov. but this has really humbled me; great work dude.
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okokwhatever 53 minutes ago
what a beautiful city could be...
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nicechianti 50 minutes ago
[dead]
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avelis 42 minutes ago
The least amount of traffic I have seen in the city. /s
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walrus01 2 hours ago
I don't think it's really simulating San Francisco unless it has a public defecation feature.
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jb12 2 hours ago
Woah dude careful, I think you're stuck in 2022!
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teaearlgraycold 2 hours ago
The poop situation is still not great.
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nonethewiser 54 minutes ago
Oh cmon man. Every city has its “lets just accept human feces on the sidewalk “ phase.
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