Game News Druidstone enters production, procedural generation now completely removed

[luj1]

As I said - fantasy Xcom.

I only hope they removed hearts used for HP (populist shite to attract Zelda/Minecraft fags).

 

[Ravn7]

What drugs are you on? Every indie dev and his mother does procedual levels now.

OK. It's possible I just haven't played any of those games.

Or maybe we meant something else? Because I meant procedurally generated maps that are different every time you start a new game. Is that also that common in indie RPG games?

 

[JarlFrank]

What drugs are you on? Every indie dev and his mother does procedual levels now.

OK. It's possible I just haven't played any of those games.

Or maybe we meant something else? Because I meant procedurally generated maps that are different every time you start a new game. Is that also that common in indie RPG games?

Yes, procedually generated maps. Roguelikes and rogue-lites are a huge thing right now, and most indie games these days decide to go for procedual maps instead of proper hand-made level design.

 

[Zep Zepo]

Handcrafted, Procedurally Generated Maps will be the wave of the future, I tell ya!

I'm getting in on the ground floor of that new paradigm!

Zep--

 

[Twiglard]

Handcrafted, Procedurally Generated Maps will be the wave of the future, I tell ya!

I'm getting in on the ground floor of that new paradigm!

Zep--

Try some procedurally generated dialogues. But better not try them.

 

[ArchAngel]

Handcrafted, Procedurally Generated Maps will be the wave of the future, I tell ya!

I'm getting in on the ground floor of that new paradigm!

Zep--

Try some procedurally generated dialogues. But better not try them.

Too late for that, Bethesda has been using that at least since Oblivion.

 

[Twiglard]

Handcrafted, Procedurally Generated Maps will be the wave of the future, I tell ya!

I'm getting in on the ground floor of that new paradigm!

Zep--

Try some procedurally generated dialogues. But better not try them.

Too late for that, Bethesda has been using that at least since Oblivion.

Horrible creatures, I avoid them whenever I can.

Actually, there's already some useful stuff in the field of linguistics (unrelated to any human language). In general, generative formal grammars and grammar hierarchy. BUT it's not gonna produce elaborate dialogs like Big Bad's speeches in any rpg. It technically can produce varied responses depending on whether the NPC slept well last night etc. A common subtype of recursive grammars is as capable of computation as any arbitrary computer program.

It's a big project in itself to allow not-so-awkward procedural word sequence generation, variations, transpositions etc. But I expect this to happen once procedural game worlds get more exposure.