01 · 自己紹介 About me
Hi, I'm Ben.
I'm Ben, a city builder from Munich. I started this channel in 2020 — not with a city, but in the map editor, recreating real Japanese terrain and street maps for the JAPAN series.
Then came the long builds: Westfield, Springdale, Verville and Springvalley in Cities: Skylines, and from launch week onwards Oakside, Fair Banks, Shiroku, Takaoka, Cedarpoint and Horizon Springs in Cities: Skylines II. The tutorials made along the way — 81 Tiles, Realistic Population, map overlays, highway signs — are still how most people find the channel.
What I enjoy most isn't the skyline. It's the moment a junction stops jamming, a station starts pulling people out of their cars, or a district finally looks like somewhere you could actually live. Japanese cities do that better than anywhere: rail first, density around stations, narrow streets and mixed use. That's why the relaunch is built around them.
Away from the game I've worked in digital marketing for more than twenty years — search, SEO and, lately, GEO: how content gets found by AI search. It's also why every video now gets a written page here, so the knowledge stays findable, not just watchable.
