The algorithmic generation of content at runtime, as oppose to the manual placement of preset content and assets.
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Huge procedurally generated 'wilderness' worlds
I'm sure you all know of games like Dwarf Fortress - massive, procedural generated wilderness and land. Something like this, taken from this very useful article.
However, I was wondering how I could ...
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Procedural… house with rooms generator
I've been looking at some algorithms and articles about procedurally generating a dungeon. The problem is, I'm trying to generate a house with rooms, and they don't seem to fit my requirements.
For ...
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How to generate random level from a seed?
How would I go about using a random seed to generate a game level? The same seed should always generate the exact same level.
For this example it would be a Worms style level. So each level would ...
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How are voxel terrain engines made?
A few days ago I found something called voxel terrains and I think that they're pretty cool. But I don't know anything generating them. Do you model it in your modeling software or use something like ...
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How do audio based games such as Audiosurf and Beat Hazard work?
Note: I am not asking how to make a clone of one of these. I am asking about how they work.
I'm sure everyone's seen the games where you use your own music files (or provided ones) and the games ...
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Procedural world generation oriented on gameplay features
In large procedural landscape games, the land seems dull, but that's probably because the real world is largely dull, with only limited places where the scenery is dramatic or tactical.
Looking at ...
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What are some ideal algorithms for Rogue-like 2D dungeon generation?
What are some good resources regarding procedural content generation in the context of dungeon generation?
Closest article I could find was ...
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Algorithms for rainfall + river creation in procedurally generated terrain
I've recently become fascinated by the things that can be done with procedurally terrain and have started experimenting with world building a bit. I'd like to be able to make worlds something like ...
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Why is permadeath essential to a roguelike design?
Roguelikes and roguelike-likes (Spelunky, The Binding of Isaac) tend to share a number of game design elements:
Procedurally generated worlds
Character growth by way of new abilities and powers
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How can I generate Worms-style terrain?
I'm working on a Worms-styled game and want to generate some terrain procedurally. I've previously done a lot of terrain generation using perlin noise, and this is what I started out using for this ...
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Randomly generated story
I'm developing a game at the moment and I had an idea where the game's story line would randomly generate as the player progressed and their actions would affect the story.
Would this be a bad idea ...
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Atmospheric scattering sky from space artifacts
I am in the process of implementing atmospheric scattering of a planets from space. I have been using Sean O'Neil's shaders from http://http.developer.nvidia.com/GPUGems2/gpugems2_chapter16.html as a ...
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A Simple Method To Create Island Map Mask
I'm searching for a nice and easy way to generate a mask for an island map with C#.
Basically I'm using with a random heightmap generated with perlin noise, where the terrain is NOT surrounded by ...
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What happened to procedurally generated textures?
I recall some time ago that procedurally generated textures were becoming a big deal that a lot of people/companies were really interested in with some serious benefits (smaller deployments, ...
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Algorithm for generating a 2d maze
What algorithm have you used in the past to generate a simple 2d maze?
