What is this?
I'm probably making a mistake by posting publicly about this, but I was recently looking at Google Images for similar pictures to TQ games and discovered an [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] that creates similar game maps. I went down a rabbit hole looking at similar images to those... and discovered a huge collection of TQ assets available on marketplaces for purchase.
What's interesting about these assets is that they're very clearly leaked. Some are of buildings that appear in Twin City... and they're 3D before they fix the camera and render it with lighting. Some of these product listing images could potentially be used as maps (if they don't already appear in games we know about). Others can be used to create new maps entirely (since they're easily cut out buildings that we don't normally see as individual assets).
Here's an example product listing:
Marketplace Links
The marketplace users I crawled are all listed below:
Archiving product listings
I wrote a tool to help crawl all these websites and archive the listings. You can find the source code of the tool [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] if you wish to extend it or use it to download these images and descriptions yourself. Cheers.
I'm probably making a mistake by posting publicly about this, but I was recently looking at Google Images for similar pictures to TQ games and discovered an [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] that creates similar game maps. I went down a rabbit hole looking at similar images to those... and discovered a huge collection of TQ assets available on marketplaces for purchase.
What's interesting about these assets is that they're very clearly leaked. Some are of buildings that appear in Twin City... and they're 3D before they fix the camera and render it with lighting. Some of these product listing images could potentially be used as maps (if they don't already appear in games we know about). Others can be used to create new maps entirely (since they're easily cut out buildings that we don't normally see as individual assets).
Here's an example product listing:
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Marketplace Links
The marketplace users I crawled are all listed below:
- [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
- [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
- [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
- [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
Archiving product listings
I wrote a tool to help crawl all these websites and archive the listings. You can find the source code of the tool [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] if you wish to extend it or use it to download these images and descriptions yourself. Cheers.