placemaker
Placemaker, a Cities: Skylines II mod: select an area and turn it into roads, parking, parks, shops and more.
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GITHUB · launched Oct 17, 2026 · 18 upvotes (top 67%)
- Media & entertainment
- B2C
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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Partial The UI and workflow (select an area, generate a layout) are codeable with C# and the game's modding APIs. Turning a region into realistic, valid roads, zoning, and parking requires deep knowledge of the game's internal simulation and road systems.
What it would actually take: The mod would be written in C# against Cities: Skylines II's modding API, with a selection tool and procedural placement logic. The hard part is understanding the game's road network, lane, and zoning internals well enough to generate layouts the simulation accepts. That takes reverse engineering of game data and some urban-planning knowledge to make the output plausible.
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Attention rank: #106 of 146 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 318 days after the earliest competitor.
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