Procedural

Procedural generation is a way to generate content for a game algorithmically rather than manually. Example of content that can be generated are textures, terrain, quests and many other things.

Reference

• • Practices in Procedural Generation - 2016

  • Procedural World - 2015

  • A Primer on Repeatable Random Numbers - 2015

  • Procedurally Generated Trees with Space Colonization Algorithm in XNA C# - 2014

  • Procedural content generation - 2013

  • Procedural Content Generation in RCF2 - 2010

  • Libnoise - 2007

• Algorithms for Procedural Content Generation

Terrain

• • Procedural Generation of 3D Caves for Games on the GPU - 2015

  • How we Generate Terrain in DwarfCorp - 2013

• Modeling Real-World Terrain with Exponentially Distributed Noise

  • Fractal Terrain Generation - 2010

  • Polygonal Map Generation for Games - 2010

  • 3D Cube World Level Generation - 2011

  • Adding Realistic rivers to random terrain - 2004

  • A Method For 'Growing' Rivers In A Randomly Generated World - 2002

  • Simplex noise demystified - 2005

Maze

• • Procedural Level design in Eldritch - 2015

  • Interview: How Does Level Generation Work In Brogue? - 2015

  • Unite 2014 - Generating Procedural Dungeons in Galak Z - 2014

  • Level Design in Procedural Generation - 2014

  • Procedural Modeling of Cave-like Channels - 2014

  • Procedural Level Generation in Games using a Cellular Automaton: Part 1 - 2014

  • Bake Your Own 3D Dungeons With Procedural Recipes - 2014

  • Random level generation in wastelands kings - 2013

  • Maze Generation: Algorithm Recap - 2011

  • Herringbone Wang Tiles - 2011

  • Procedural Level Generation Using Occupancy-Regulated Extension - 2010

  • Unangband Dungeon Generation - Part Five (Elements) - 2007

• Roguelike Dungeon Generation

City/Buildings

• • Procedural and Automation Techniques for Design and Production of Sunset Overdrive - 2015

  • Procedural City Generation in Python - 2015

  • Designer-driven 3D Buildings Generated Using Variable Neighborhood Search - 2014

  • Procedural City - 2009

  • Citygen: An Interactive System for Procedural City Generation - 2007

  • Procedural Content Generation - 2007

  • Procedural Modeling of Buildings - 2007

  • Procedural Modeling of Cities - 2007

  • A Survey of Procedural Techniques for City Generation - 2006

• Procedural Buildings Tutorial

  • Procedural Building Implementations

Textures

• Intro to Procedural Textures

Quest

• • Towards Story-Based Content Generation: From Plot-Points to Maps - 2012

  • Toward Supporting Stories with Procedurally Generated Game Worlds - 2011

  • Procedural Progression - 2009

World

• • Procedurally Generating Wrapping World Maps in Unity C# (One, Two, Three and Four) - 2016

  • Procedural World Generation and Simulation in DWARF FORTRESS - 2012

  • 2D procedurally generated world building in Unity - 2015

GPU-Based Procedural Placement in Horizon Zero Dawn - 2017

PCG Shotgun: 6 Techniques for Leveraging AI in Content Generation - 2017

Practical Procedural Generation for Everyone - 2017

Procedural Narrative Generation - 2017

Continuous World Generation in 'No Man's Sky' - 2017

Building Worlds Using Math(s) - 2017

Procedural Generation in Shattered Planet - 2015

The importance of good noise - 2018

Voronoi Noise

Value Noise

Perlin Noise

Layered Noise

Tiled Blue Noise - 2018

Generating Blue Noise Textures With Void And Cluster - 2019

Implementation of Fast and Adaptive Procedural Cellular Noise - 2019

Math for Game Developers: End-to-End Procedural Generation in Caves of Qud - 2019

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