I’m building Syrthe with Dominique and we are spending a lot of time deciding the size and placement of all the needed structures.

Here is where we are at the moment:

Not very fancy, isn’t it?

And yet, this took a lot of time.
The ugly blocks at the bottom of the image are the bailiff castle and the cathedral, how do you get the sizes right?
Well, we’ve been timing how long it takes to run from one end of a building to the other, compared to real life structures, thinking about how pretty it will have to look and how playable it will have to be.
Running from the castle to the bridge takes over 2 minutes in a straight line: not exactly the kind of thing you can ask a player to do repeatedly, he’ll get bored pretty fast and will soon hate the game.

There is still a long way to go, the finished city will pretty much look like this: