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Tiny Glade
A medieval building sandbox in which drawn walls, paths, and building outlines are assembled by procedural rules into detailed castles and cottages, with no goals, management, or failure states.
parts
3 mechanics, as Tiny Glade does themcore · 1
Procedural build assist
Walls, paths, and building outlines are turned into detailed geometry; a path through a building creates a door and raising a building adds supporting columns and beams.
supporting · 2
Building placement
Strokes are drawn freely without a grid.
Terraforming
Terrain height can be changed and rivers and ponds added.
core loop
draw walls, paths, and building outlines -> procedural rules assemble bricks, roofs, doors, and supports to fit -> reshape terrain and add water -> ivy grows and sheep wander the paths -> keep editing
design notes
Tiny Glade takes the Townscaper approach to freehand strokes: a path drawn through a building produces a door, and raising a building adds columns and beams to support it, so local rules respond to how elements meet. The two-person studio built it on a custom fork of the Rust engine Bevy. It is a boundary case: the only autonomous elements are ambient life such as growing ivy and wandering sheep.