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Kowloon Walled City (lemmy.world)
submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by ReiRose@lemmy.world to c/til@lemmy.world
 

Edit to add wiki, sorry folks! working link

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[–] wakest@piefed.social 27 points 3 days ago (5 children)

Would love to see a 3d recreation of as much as possible. Would be cool to go thru all the videos and documentation of it and build a real 3d world from that

[–] zebidiah@lemmy.ca 25 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 days ago

That's excellent! Thank you.

[–] Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

William Gibson writes about this in his book idoru

[–] Imperial_Genesis@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Thanks! Always nice seeing Cyberpunk recommendations. Put it on my wishlist!

[–] Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Great, I enjoyed it, hope you do too. Not quite as good as his sprawl series imo but definitely worth reading.

Edit - and if you've not read the sprawl series you and you like cyberpunk - wow, you are in for a treat!

[–] Imperial_Genesis@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

I believe I have them lying around somewhere but didn't really have time yet to read them. I think I'll see if I can find them and start on them this weekend!

Thank you for the inspiration!

[–] linkinkampf19@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Ask and you shall receive. Literally popped up last night for me. How convenient. Sure, it's Minecraft, but still pretty cool.

https://youtu.be/IWZQB9zDD3Y

[–] liaizon@social.wake.st 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Kowloon Walled City modeled in Minecraft!
https://youtu.be/IWZQB9zDD3Y

thanks to @linkinkampf19 for the link!

A screenshot of Kowloon Walled City modeled in Minecraft

[–] CaptainHowdy@lemmy.zip 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Lol I just saw that video yesterday and was going to show it here, but you beat me to it. Great video! I'd literally never heard of the place and now it's popped up twice in two days.

[–] wakest@piefed.social 3 points 3 days ago

Sort of amazing people are just discovering this now, I was so into this when I first found out about it back in the tumblr days

[–] Eldritch@piefed.world 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

There's been a version of it in second life for about 20 years I think.

[–] wakest@piefed.social 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Have a link to it? Or a screenshot?

[–] Eldritch@piefed.world 5 points 3 days ago

None on hand at the moment. If you log in though, search on the world map for Kowloon. Google image and video search will also turn up results if you enter in secondlife and Kowloon.

The sim itself isn't trying to be absolutely authentic. Though the neon lit main street is fairly representative. And it does have an authentic display of what residential quarters would look like.