How a video game might help us build better cities | Karoliina Korppoo

譯者: Lilian Chiu 審譯者: Helen Chang

We humans are becoming an urban species,

我們人類正在變成一個都市的物種，

so cities, they are our natural habitat.

城市，是我們自然的棲息地。

That is where we live.

是我們居住的地方。

In 2014, over 54 percent

在 2014 年，

超過 54% 的世界人口

of the world population

was living in cities,

住在城市裡，

and I can bet you

我敢跟你們打賭，

that so many of these people have thought

這些人當中有很多人都曾想過

of how they would do things differently,

他們會如何用不同的方式做事，

like if I only had the tools

比方如果我有工具

to change things in my city,

可以改變我城市中的事物，

what would I do?

我會做什麼？

What would my dream city be like?

我的夢想的城市是什麼樣子的？

And these tools,

而這正是我們給予他們的工具。

this is just what we gave them.

Two years ago, my team and I,

兩年前，

我和團隊推出了一個遊戲，

we released a game,

"Cities: Skylines."

《大都會：天際》。

It is a game about building cities.

它是個建立城市的遊戲。

So I have always been interested in cities as systems.

我一直對於城市的體制面很感興趣。

It's something that I find immensely interesting.

我覺得它非常有意思。

But what I didn't understand

但當時我並不知道

was that I am not alone in this.

就這點來說我並不孤單。

People love cities.

人們熱愛城市，

They are interested. They have ideas.

他們有興趣，

他們有點子。

The game was an instant hit.

這個遊戲馬上變成大熱門。

So far, over three and a half million people have played it.

目前有超過 350 萬人玩過它。

And it's not just about playing.

重點並不只是玩，

We also have really awesome sharing systems.

我們也有很棒的分享系統。

So people play, they create cities

所以，人們玩遊戲，創造城市，

and then they are sharing these creations,

接著他們會把這些創作分享出去，

showing off what they have made.

炫耀他們的成果。

And what I will show you

我接下來要展示

is some of these cities

一些由玩家所創造的城市。

created by the players.

So the game is about self-expression,

這個遊戲的重點是自我表現、

creativity,

創造力，

not just overcoming the challenges posed by the simulation.

而不僅是去克服模擬出來的挑戰。

It is about showing what your cities look like.

而是要展現出你的城市的模樣，

So I have a couple of videos.

我這裡有幾段影片，

These are from YouTube.

來自 YouTube。

And these are some of the most interesting city designs I have seen.

這些是我所見過

最有意思的城市設計中的一部分。

So they are all different,

它們全都不一樣，

and I hope you like all of these.

我希望你們也全都喜歡。

This one is called The Netherlands.

這個叫做「荷蘭」。

It's by Silvarret.

由 Silvarret 設計的。

And when you start the game,

當遊戲開始時，

you have an empty piece of land.

你有一片空地。

This land, it can be based on the real world,

這塊地可以取材自真實世界，

it can be hand-crafted in the map editor,

也可以用地圖編輯器來手工製作，

or you can, of course, download a city made by someone else

當然，你也能下載其他人做的城市，

然後開始玩。

and play in that.

But what Silvarret has done here

但 Silvarret 在這裡所做的，

is that what he wanted to make

他想要製作的

was not a real city.

並非真實的城市。

This is a fantasy city,

這是個奇幻城市，

even though it looks real.

不過看起來挺真實的。

So what he wanted to do was a fantasy city that could be in the Netherlands.

他想要製作的是一個 可能位在荷蘭的奇幻城市。

So he kind of investigated

所以他做了些調查，

what are the characteristics of cities in the Netherlands

找出荷蘭的城市有什麼特徵，

and combined a couple of those,

結合了其中幾項特徵，

and this is what he created.

然後創造出了這個作品。

So it is a city,

它是個城市，

but it is not a real city,

但它不是個真實的城市，

但它可以是真實的。

but it could be.

It looks just like the Netherlands.

它看起來就像是荷蘭。

So the places are really densely populated.

這些地方人口密集，

So what you need is highways, trains,

你需要高速公路、火車，

anything connecting these small town centers together.

任何能把這些小鎮中心 連結在一起的設施。

Lots of people, lots of moving,

很多人，很多移動，

so transportation is the key here.

在這裡交通是關鍵。

But then let's go even more on the fantasy side.

讓我們更進一步去看看奇幻面。

Let's go into the future.

讓我們走入未來。

This is one of my personal favorites.

這是我個人最愛之一，

These city designs are what I love the most.

我最喜歡的城市設計。

這是個層疊式的城市， 作者是 Conflictnerd，

So this is a tiered city by Conflictnerd,

and the basic idea is that you have concentric circle routes.

基本的想法是同心圓的路線。

So the city is a big circle

這個城市是個大圓圈，

with tinier circles inside.

內部有較小的圓圈。

And the thing is that you put all of the services in the center,

重點是要把所有的服務放在中心，

and then people actually live on the outer ring,

而人們則住在外圈，

因為外圈比較不塞車、 較少噪音、較沒污染，

because there is less traffic, less noise, less pollution,

so that is where you want to live.

是你會想要住的地方。

But the services are still really close by.

而服務仍然在很近的地方，

They are in the center.

在市中心。

And this is the soul of the game.

這就是遊戲的靈魂。

The player has to understand

玩家必須要了解

what are the wishes, what are the needs

住在城市裡的小小人們

of the tiny people living in the cities.

期望什麼、需要什麼。

So you need to know where you should put the things.

所以你得要知道 這些東西要放在哪裡。

Like, it's not enough to have a hospital.

比如，只有醫院是不夠的，

It needs to be accessible.

還要夠近、無障礙，

Citizens need to reach the hospital.

市民要能夠到達醫院，

And this is one way to do it.

這是其中一種做法。

So maybe this is something that we might be seeing someday.

所以也許有一天 我們會看到這樣的城市。

And then even more into the future.

接著，再更遠一點的未來。

Astergea by Yuttho.

Yuttho 的作品 Astergea。

So Yuttho does YouTube videos and plays the game.

Yuttho 製作 YouTube 影片 和玩這遊戲。

What he did here was actually a 12-point series

這是他創造城市用的 12 點系列。

of creating this city.

他的做法是：玩遊戲，

So what he does is he plays the game,

he records it

錄下過程，

and he explains as he's going what he's doing and why.

然後一邊做一邊解釋，

他在做什麼，為什麼這樣做。

And as a part of this series,

這個系列的一部份是

he actually did an interview with an actual urban planner

他真的訪談了一位都市規劃員，

called Jeff Speck.

名叫傑夫史派克。

And Speck is an expert on the concept of walkability.

史派克是「適於步行」概念的專家，

The basic idea is that if you want your citizens to walk,

基本的想法是

如果想要讓市民有益身心的步行，

which is kind of beneficial,

you actually need to have walking as a reasonable means of transportation.

必須讓步行成為合理的交通方式，

It should be a good way to reach places.

步行應該是去其他地方的好方法。

So what Yuttho did was that he explained this concept,

Yuttho 解釋這個概念，

he had Speck explain it, too,

也讓史派克解釋，

and then he applied it to the city that he was building.

然後把這個概念 應用在他建造的城市上。

So what we are seeing is Yuttho's vision of the future:

我們現在看到的是 Yuttho 眼中的未來：

lots of public transportation, walkways, plazas,

有很多大眾交通工具、步道、廣場，

connecting high-rise buildings.

連結著高樓大廈。

Maybe this is what the future might look like.

也許未來就是這個樣子的。

And the game system works really well for this.

遊戲系統在這方面做得很好。

We are seeing some real-world uses to this game.

我們看到這遊戲被用在真實世界上。

So we know that some urban planners are using it as a sketching tool,

我們知道有些都市規劃員 把這遊戲當作初步規劃的工具；

so while the simulation is not completely realistic,

儘管模擬並不完全真實，

it is realistic enough that if something works in the game,

只要在遊戲中裡行得通，

it is highly likely that it will also work in the real world,

在真實世界裡非常可能也會行得通；

所以你可以用遊戲來嘗試，

so that you can actually try out things,

see if this intersection might fit this kind of a situation.

試看看這路口是否適合這種情況。

If we build a new road, would it help?

如果我們建一條新路，有沒有幫助？

And this is what you can do with this game.

你用這遊戲就能做到這些。

There was one really interesting contest held

有一場很有意思的比賽，

by the Finnish city of Hämeenlinna.

由芬蘭的海門林納市舉辦的。

So what they did was that they had a new area

他們的做法是，

城市中有塊他們想要開發的新區域。

that they wanted to develop in the city.

They made a map with the existing city,

他們為既有的城市繪了張地圖，

they left empty the area that they would want to develop

待開發的區域在圖上留白，

and shared this map.

然後把地圖分享出去。

So anyone could download the map,

任何人都能下載這張地圖，

play the game, build the area

玩遊戲，建設這塊區域，

and submit their creations to the city council.

然後把他們的創作提交給市議會。

So they have not yet built anything,

他們尚未開始建設，

but it might just be that they use one of these plans

但他們可能會採用

遊戲規劃出來的其中一個，

made with the game

to actually build the real city.

真正用來建造城市。

And these videos that I have shown you,

我剛給各位看的影片，

these are the people who are coming up with new kinds of solutions.

這些是想出了新解決方案的人。

我們知道城市在擴大，

We know that cities are growing.

They're getting bigger as we go,

不斷地擴大，

and the percentage of population living in cities is projected to rise.

預期住城市的人口比例也會上升，

So we need the solutions

所以我們需要解決方案，

and these people, playing the game,

而這個遊戲的玩家

在嘗試不同類的解決方案，

they are trying out different kinds of solutions.

They might have something that is really important.

很可能他們有真正重要的規劃。

So what we are seeing here is dream cities that might be real one day.

所以我們在這裡看到的夢想城市

有可能某一天會成真。

So it might be

所以，有可能這不只是個遊戲，

that this is not just a game.

It might be a way

而是能決定我們自己命運的方式。

to decide our own fate.

Thank you.

謝謝。

(Applause)

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