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