--- title: Designing Kuttenberg City Around Design Constraints | KCD 2 description: A game development talk covering how the city of Kuttenberg in Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 was designed around performance constraints. The team needed 1,400... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/designing-kuttenberg-city-around-design-constraints-kcd-2-u9dm2glxv twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Designing Kuttenberg City Around Design Constraints | KCD 2 | daily.dev og:description: A game development talk covering how the city of Kuttenberg in Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 was designed around performance constraints. The team needed 1,400... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/designing-kuttenberg-city-around-design-constraints-kcd-2-u9dm2glxv og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/U9DM2gLXV.png og:image:alt: Designing Kuttenberg City Around Design Constraints | KCD 2 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Designing Kuttenberg City Around Design Constraints | KCD 2 **[GDC Festival of Gaming](https://daily.dev/sources/gdcfestivalofgaming)** · 1 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A game development talk covering how the city of Kuttenberg in Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 was designed around performance constraints. The team needed 1,400 NPCs to populate the city but could only render 70 at a time. To address this, they built a white-box model of the city early in development to measure NPC visibility from various vantage points, allowing them to design the city layout itself around these limitations rather than fighting them after the fact. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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