Mark has been thinking and writing about games since a Gameboy Pocket and a copy of Link's Awakening was first placed into his tender, seven-year-old hands. Since then, he snagged a creative writing ...

Dungeon crawlers offer a satisfying structure with combat and problem-solving while combining rogue-like and RPG elements. Procedural generation in games like Devil Spire and Mortal Sin adds variety ...

Procedural content generation (PCG) represents an innovative approach to the creation of video game elements through algorithmic processes. This methodology has evolved from early rule‐based systems ...

MMOs are infamous for the exorbitant amount of both time and money that is required to make a fantastic end product. Much of this effort and expenditure goes into producing very specific content such ...

Xenoblade Chronicles 3 developer Monolith Soft has revealed that it used significant procedural generation to cope with the vast increase in assets required to build the world of the ...

Owing perhaps to the difficulty and extreme cost of building virtual worlds that can be seen, heard, explored, and interacted with in multitudes of other ways, video games have long made use of ...

New consoles (so sweet!), 40,000 polygons (many emotions!), really textured rocks (wow!). Have you ever seen concrete pipes so... beautiful? We've done it, we've made graphics look "real," let's go ...

While speaking about the massive overhaul that’s been made to the game’s engine, Bethesda’s Todd Howard made a note about procedural generation, or more specifically how these engine changes will ...

Of all the trends that have swept the gaming space in the last decade or so, few have the staying power of procedural generation, which is writing a system of rules for creating content and letting a ...