ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Karoliina Korppoo - Game designer
Inspired by classic city simulation games, Finnish designer Karoliina Korppoo and her fellow game developers at Colossal Order are infusing a venerable gaming genre with fresh perspectives.

Why you should listen

Developed by gaming upstarts Colossal Order and guided by Korppoo as lead designer, Cities: Skylines has become the gold standard for city simulation games -- an honor previously held by the genre-defining Sim City.

At the core of Colossal Order’s rejuvenated game designs is their dedication to creating an accessible experience for all users, whether through ease of use or by allowing users to suggest their own modifications. As a result, Colossal Order doesn’t shy away from game projects that touch on the problems of urbanization, gentrification or the possibilities of servicing a city with nothing but gravel roads.

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

Karoliina Korppoo: Kako nam video igra može pomoći u izgradnji boljih gradova

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S više od polovine svjetske populacije koja živi u gradovima, jedno je neporecivo: mi smo urbana vrsta. Djelomično video igra, a djelomično alat za skiciranje pri urbanom planiranju, igra "Cities: Skylines" potiče ljude da iskoriste svoju kreativnost i samoizražavanje, kako bi promislili o gradovima sutrašnjice. Dizajnerica Karoliina Korppoo vodi nas u obilazak nekih izvanrednih mjesta koja su kreirali korisnici igre, od futurističkih izmišljenih gradova, do upečatljivo realističnih krajolika. A kako izgleda vaš grad iz snova?
- Game designer
Inspired by classic city simulation games, Finnish designer Karoliina Korppoo and her fellow game developers at Colossal Order are infusing a venerable gaming genre with fresh perspectives. Full bio

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00:12
We humansljudi are becomingpostaje an urbanurbani speciesvrsta,
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Mi ljudi postajemo urbana vrsta,
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so citiesgradovi, they are our naturalprirodni habitatstanište.
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i gradovi su naše prirodno stanište.
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That is where we liveživjeti.
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To je mjesto gdje živimo.
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In 2014, over 54 percentposto
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2014. godine, preko 54 posto
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of the worldsvijet populationpopulacija
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svjetske populacije
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was livingživot in citiesgradovi,
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živjelo je u gradovima
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and I can betkladiti se you
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i mogu se kladiti s vama
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that so manymnogi of these people have thought
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da je mnogo od tih ljudi razmišljalo
00:38
of how they would do things differentlyrazličito,
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kako će stvari raditi drugačije,
00:41
like if I only had the toolsalat
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kao na primjer, kad bih imao neki alat
00:44
to changepromijeniti things in my cityGrad,
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da promijenim stvari u svom gradu,
00:47
what would I do?
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što bih učinio?
00:48
What would my dreamsan cityGrad be like?
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Kako bi izgledao moj grad iz snova?
00:52
And these toolsalat,
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A ti alati,
00:53
this is just what we gavedali them.
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to je ono što smo im dali.
00:58
Two yearsgodina agoprije, my teamtim and I,
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Prije dvije godine, moj tim i ja
01:00
we releasedoslobođen a gameigra,
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objavili smo video igru
01:02
"CitiesGradovi: SkylinesNebo."
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"Cities: Skylines."
01:03
It is a gameigra about buildingzgrada citiesgradovi.
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To je igra o izgradnji gradova.
01:07
So I have always been
interestedzainteresiran in citiesgradovi as systemssustavi.
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Oduvijek su me zanimali
gradovi kao sustavi.
01:11
It's something that I find
immenselyneizmjerno interestingzanimljiv.
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Neizmjerno su mi zanimljivi.
01:15
But what I didn't understandrazumjeti
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No, ono što nisam znala,
01:17
was that I am not alonesam in this.
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bilo je da nisam sama u svemu tome.
01:20
People love citiesgradovi.
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Ljudi vole gradove.
01:22
They are interestedzainteresiran. They have ideasideje.
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Zanimaju ih. Imaju predodžbe o njima.
01:24
The gameigra was an instanttrenutak hithit.
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Igra je odmah postala hit.
01:27
So fardaleko, over threetri and a halfpola
millionmilijuna people have playedigrao it.
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Do sada ju je igralo
preko tri i pol milijuna ljudi.
01:33
And it's not just about playingigranje.
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I ovdje se ne radi samo o igri.
01:36
We alsotakođer have really awesomesuper
sharingdijeljenje systemssustavi.
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Imamo i zaista sjajne načine dijeljenja.
01:40
So people playigrati, they createstvoriti citiesgradovi
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Dakle, ljudi igraju, stvaraju gradove,
01:43
and then they are sharingdijeljenje these creationskreacije,
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a onda dijele dalje te kreacije,
01:46
showingpokazivanje off what they have madenapravljen.
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pokazujući što su napravili.
01:49
And what I will showpokazati you
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Pokazat ću vam
01:52
is some of these citiesgradovi
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neke od tih gradova
01:54
createdstvorio by the playersigrači.
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koje su stvorili igrači.
01:56
So the gameigra is about self-expressionizraz vlastite ličnosti,
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Bit igre je u samoizražavanju,
02:01
creativitykreativnost,
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kreativnosti,
02:02
not just overcomingPrevladavanje the challengesizazovi
posedpredstavljaju by the simulationsimuliranje.
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a ne samo u svladavanju
izazova u simulaciji.
02:07
It is about showingpokazivanje
what your citiesgradovi look like.
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Radi se o pokazivanju
kako vaši gradovi izgledaju.
02:12
So I have a couplepar of videosvideo.
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Imam ovdje nekoliko videa.
02:14
These are from YouTubeMladost.
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Ovi su s YouTubea.
02:16
And these are some of the mostnajviše
interestingzanimljiv cityGrad designsdizajna I have seenvidio.
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I to su neki od najzanimljivijih
dizajna gradova koje sam vidjela.
02:20
So they are all differentdrugačiji,
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Svaki je različit
02:22
and I hopenada you like all of these.
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i nadam se da će vam se svi svidjeti.
02:27
This one is calledzvao The NetherlandsNizozemska.
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Ovaj se zove Nizozemska.
02:29
It's by SilvarretSilvarret.
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Igrač je Silvarret.
02:31
And when you startpočetak the gameigra,
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I kada pokrenete igru,
02:33
you have an emptyprazan piecekomad of landzemljište.
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imate samo prazan komad zemljišta.
02:36
This landzemljište, it can be basedzasnovan
on the realstvaran worldsvijet,
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Ovakvo zemljište može se
temeljiti na stvarnom svijetu,
02:40
it can be hand-craftedručno izrađenih in the mapkarta editorurednik,
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može biti ručno kreirano u uređivaču mapa,
02:43
or you can, of coursenaravno, downloadpreuzimanje datoteka
a cityGrad madenapravljen by someonenetko elsedrugo
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a, naravno, možete i preuzeti grad
koji je netko drugi stvorio
02:46
and playigrati in that.
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i igrati u njemu.
02:47
But what SilvarretSilvarret has doneučinio here
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No, ono što je Silvarret ovdje napravio,
02:50
is that what he wanted to make
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on nije htio stvoriti
02:52
was not a realstvaran cityGrad.
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grad koji već postoji.
02:55
This is a fantasyfantazija cityGrad,
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Ovo je izmišljen grad,
02:57
even thoughiako it looksizgled realstvaran.
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iako izgleda stvarno.
02:58
So what he wanted to do was a fantasyfantazija cityGrad
that could be in the NetherlandsNizozemska.
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Dakle, htio je stvoriti izmišljen grad
koji bi mogao biti u Nizozemskoj.
03:04
So he kindljubazan of investigatedistražuju
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Stoga je istraživao
03:06
what are the characteristicskarakteristike
of citiesgradovi in the NetherlandsNizozemska
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koje su osobine gradova u Nizozemskoj,
03:10
and combinedkombinirana a couplepar of those,
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kombinirao nekoliko njih
03:13
and this is what he createdstvorio.
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i stvorio je ovo.
03:16
So it is a cityGrad,
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Ovo je grad
03:17
but it is not a realstvaran cityGrad,
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koji nije stvaran,
03:20
but it could be.
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ali bi mogao biti.
03:21
It looksizgled just like the NetherlandsNizozemska.
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Izgleda baš kao da je u Nizozemskoj.
03:23
So the placesmjesta are really
denselygusto populatednaseljen.
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Mjesta su zaista gusto naseljena.
03:26
So what you need is highwaysautoceste, trainsvlakovi,
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Ovdje trebate prometnice, vlakove,
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anything connectingspojni
these smallmali towngrad centerscentri togetherzajedno.
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sve što povezuje središta
ovih malih gradova.
03:36
Lots of people, lots of movingkreće,
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Mnogo ljudi, mnogo kretanja,
03:38
so transportationtransport is the keyključ here.
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stoga je prijevoz ovdje ključan.
03:42
But then let's go even more
on the fantasyfantazija sidestrana.
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Krenimo još dalje na stranu mašte.
03:46
Let's go into the futurebudućnost.
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Krenimo u budućnost.
03:50
This is one of my personalosobni favoritesFavoriti.
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Ovo je jedan od mojih omiljenih primjera.
03:52
These cityGrad designsdizajna
are what I love the mostnajviše.
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Najviše volim ovakvo
kreiranje novih gradova.
03:57
So this is a tieredkata cityGrad by ConflictnerdConflictnerd,
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Ovaj grad kreirao je Conflictnerd
04:00
and the basicosnovni ideaideja is
that you have concentrickoncentričnim circlekrug routesruta.
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i osnovna ideja su rute
u obliku koncentričnih krugova.
04:06
So the cityGrad is a bigvelika circlekrug
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Stoga grad ima oblik kruga
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with tiniertinier circleskrugovi insideiznutra.
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i još manje unutarnje krugove.
04:11
And the thing is that you put
all of the servicesusluge in the centercentar,
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Sve usluge smještaju se u centar,
04:15
and then people actuallyzapravo liveživjeti
on the outervanjski ringprsten,
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a ljudi žive u vanjskom krugu,
04:19
because there is lessmanje trafficpromet,
lessmanje noisebuka, lessmanje pollutionzagađenje,
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jer je tamo manje prometa,
buke i zagađenja,
04:22
so that is where you want to liveživjeti.
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stoga tamo želite živjeti.
04:24
But the servicesusluge
are still really closeblizu by.
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No, i dalje su svi sadržaji blizu.
04:27
They are in the centercentar.
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Nalaze se u centru.
04:29
And this is the soulduša of the gameigra.
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I ovo je bit igre.
04:33
The playerigrač has to understandrazumjeti
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Igrač mora razumjeti
04:35
what are the wishesželje, what are the needspotrebe
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koje su želje i potrebe
04:38
of the tinysićušan people livingživot in the citiesgradovi.
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sićušnih ljudi koji žive u gradovima.
04:41
So you need to know
where you should put the things.
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Trebate znati gdje što smjestiti.
04:45
Like, it's not enoughdovoljno to have a hospitalbolnica.
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Nije dovoljno samo imati bolnicu.
Ona mora biti na pristupačnom mjestu.
04:48
It needspotrebe to be accessibledostupan.
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04:49
CitizensGrađani need to reachdohvatiti the hospitalbolnica.
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Građani moraju lako doći do bolnice.
04:52
And this is one way to do it.
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I to je jedan način.
04:57
So maybe this is something
that we mightmoć be seeingvidim somedayjednog dana.
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To je možda nešto što ćemo
jednog dana gledati.
05:02
And then even more into the futurebudućnost.
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I još više u budućnosti.
05:06
AstergeaAstergea by YutthoYuttho.
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Grad Astergea, igrač Yuttho.
05:08
So YutthoYuttho does YouTubeMladost videosvideo
and playsigra the gameigra.
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Yuttho snima videe
na YouTubeu i igra igru.
05:12
What he did here
was actuallyzapravo a 12-point-Pokažite seriesniz
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On je kreirao seriju u 12 nastavaka
05:17
of creatingstvaranje this cityGrad.
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o kreiranju ovog grada.
05:20
So what he does is he playsigra the gameigra,
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On igra igru,
05:22
he recordsploče it
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snima je
05:23
and he explainsobjašnjava as he's going
what he's doing and why.
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i kroz igru objašnjava što radi i zašto.
05:28
And as a partdio of this seriesniz,
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I kao dio tog serijala
05:30
he actuallyzapravo did an interviewintervju
with an actualstvaran urbanurbani plannerplaner
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imao je intervju s pravim stručnjakom
za urbano planiranje,
05:33
calledzvao JeffJeff SpeckTrun.
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Jeffom Speckom.
05:35
And SpeckTrun is an expertstručnjak
on the conceptkoncept of walkabilitywalkability.
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Speck je stručnjak za koncept
zona pješačenja.
05:40
The basicosnovni ideaideja is that
if you want your citizensgrađani to walkhodati,
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Osnovna ideja je, ako želite
da vaši građani pješače,
05:44
whichkoji is kindljubazan of beneficialkorisno,
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što je dobro za njih,
05:46
you actuallyzapravo need to have walkinghodanje
as a reasonablerazuman meanssredstva of transportationtransport.
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pješačenje treba biti jedno
od razumnih opcija transporta.
05:52
It should be a good way to reachdohvatiti placesmjesta.
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Mora biti dobar način da se dođe negdje.
05:55
So what YutthoYuttho did
was that he explainedobjašnjen this conceptkoncept,
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Yuttho je objasnio taj koncept,
05:59
he had SpeckTrun explainobjasniti it, too,
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objasnio ga je i Speck,
06:01
and then he appliedprimijenjen it
to the cityGrad that he was buildingzgrada.
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a onda ga je primjenio
na grad koji je stvarao.
06:05
So what we are seeingvidim
is Yuttho'sYuttho je visionvizija of the futurebudućnost:
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Ovo je Yutthova vizija budućnosti:
06:10
lots of publicjavnost transportationtransport,
walkwaysšetališta, plazastrgovi,
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mnogo javnog prijevoza,
pješačkih staza, trgova,
06:14
connectingspojni high-risevisokouzlazni buildingsgrađevine.
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koji povezuju te visoke zgrade.
06:16
Maybe this is what
the futurebudućnost mightmoć look like.
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Možda bi ovako mogla izgledati budućnost.
06:20
And the gameigra systemsistem
worksdjela really well for this.
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I koncept igre se tu
zaista dobro uklapa.
06:23
We are seeingvidim some
real-worldu stvarnom svijetu usesnamjene to this gameigra.
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Tu vidimo neke primjene
iz stvarnog svijeta.
06:28
So we know that some urbanurbani plannersplaneri
are usingkoristeći it as a sketchingskiciranje toolalat,
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Znamo da ga neki stručnjaci za urbano
planiranje koriste kao alat za skiciranje
06:33
so while the simulationsimuliranje
is not completelypotpuno realisticrealno,
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i premda simulacija
nije posve realistična,
06:37
it is realisticrealno enoughdovoljno
that if something worksdjela in the gameigra,
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dovoljno je realistična da,
ako nešto funkcionira u igri,
06:41
it is highlyvisoko likelyVjerojatno that it
will alsotakođer work in the realstvaran worldsvijet,
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vrlo je vjerojatno da će funkcionirati
i u stvarnom svijetu,
06:46
so that you can actuallyzapravo try out things,
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tako da isprobaš stvari
06:48
see if this intersectionkrižanje
mightmoć fitodgovara this kindljubazan of a situationsituacija.
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i vidiš ako bi se taj presjek
mogao uklopiti u takvo okruženje.
06:53
If we buildizgraditi a newnovi roadcesta, would it help?
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Ako gradimo novu cestu, bi li to pomoglo?
06:57
And this is what you can do
with this gameigra.
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Tako možete isprobati ovu igru.
07:01
There was one really
interestingzanimljiv contestNatjecanje heldodržanog
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Bilo je jedno zanimljivo natjecanje
07:04
by the Finnishfinski cityGrad of Hämeenlinnameenlinna.
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u finskom gradu Hämeenlinna.
07:07
So what they did
was that they had a newnovi areapodručje
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Imali su jedno područje
07:09
that they wanted to developrazviti in the cityGrad.
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koje su željeli razviti u gradu.
07:12
They madenapravljen a mapkarta with the existingpostojanje cityGrad,
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Napravili su mapu postojećeg grada,
07:15
they left emptyprazan the areapodručje
that they would want to developrazviti
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zonu koju su htjeli izgraditi
ostavili su praznom
07:18
and sharedpodijeljen this mapkarta.
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i podijelili su mapu s drugima.
07:21
So anyonebilo tko could downloadpreuzimanje datoteka the mapkarta,
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Svatko je mogao preuzeti mapu,
07:24
playigrati the gameigra, buildizgraditi the areapodručje
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igrati igru, izgraditi tu zonu
07:25
and submitpodnijeti theirnjihov creationskreacije
to the cityGrad councilvijeće.
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i svoju kreaciju poslati vijeću grada.
07:30
So they have not yetjoš builtizgrađen anything,
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Do sada još nisu ništa izgradili,
07:32
but it mightmoć just be
that they use one of these plansplanovi
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ali moguće je da iskoriste
jedan od tih planova
07:36
madenapravljen with the gameigra
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stvorenih pomoću te igre,
07:39
to actuallyzapravo buildizgraditi the realstvaran cityGrad.
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da zaista izgrade pravi grad.
07:44
And these videosvideo that I have shownprikazan you,
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Ovi videi koje sam vam pokazala,
07:46
these are the people who are
comingdolazak up with newnovi kindsvrste of solutionsrješenja.
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ovo su ljudi koji smišljaju nova rješenja.
07:52
We know that citiesgradovi are growingrastući.
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Znamo da gradovi rastu.
07:53
They're gettinguzimajući biggerveći as we go,
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Postaju sve veći
07:56
and the percentagepostotak of populationpopulacija
livingživot in citiesgradovi is projectedprojektiran to riseustati.
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i predviđa se da će postotak stanovništva
koje živi u gradovima rasti.
08:02
So we need the solutionsrješenja
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Zato trebamo rješenja
08:04
and these people, playingigranje the gameigra,
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a ti ljudi, igrajući ovu igru,
08:07
they are tryingtežak out
differentdrugačiji kindsvrste of solutionsrješenja.
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iskušavaju različita rješenja.
08:09
They mightmoć have something
that is really importantvažno.
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Možda imaju nešto što je vrlo važno.
08:14
So what we are seeingvidim here is dreamsan citiesgradovi
that mightmoć be realstvaran one day.
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Dakle, ovdje vidimo zamišljene gradove
koji jednog dana mogu postati i stvarni.
08:22
So it mightmoć be
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Zato možda
08:24
that this is not just a gameigra.
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ovo i nije samo igra.
08:28
It mightmoć be a way
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Ovo bi mogao biti način
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to decideodlučiti our ownvlastiti fatesudbina.
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da odlučujemo o vlastitoj sudbini.
08:33
Thank you.
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Hvala.
08:35
(ApplausePljesak)
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(Pljesak)
Translated by Sanda L
Reviewed by Ivan Stamenkovic

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ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Karoliina Korppoo - Game designer
Inspired by classic city simulation games, Finnish designer Karoliina Korppoo and her fellow game developers at Colossal Order are infusing a venerable gaming genre with fresh perspectives.

Why you should listen

Developed by gaming upstarts Colossal Order and guided by Korppoo as lead designer, Cities: Skylines has become the gold standard for city simulation games -- an honor previously held by the genre-defining Sim City.

At the core of Colossal Order’s rejuvenated game designs is their dedication to creating an accessible experience for all users, whether through ease of use or by allowing users to suggest their own modifications. As a result, Colossal Order doesn’t shy away from game projects that touch on the problems of urbanization, gentrification or the possibilities of servicing a city with nothing but gravel roads.

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Karoliina Korppoo | Speaker | TED.com