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 ...

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 ...

Procedural generation has helped with creating vast game worlds as far back as the 80s. Notable games like The Elder Scrolls 2 and Sid Meier's Civilization used procedural generation early on to ...

Amid a huge amount of new information on Starfield from the Xbox-Bethesda showcase, likely the most-discussed detail was Todd Howard's announcement that the upcoming sci-fi RPG will include 1,000 ...

SIE London Studio is busy staffing up for a new PS5 project, and after a bit more digging around in the job descriptions at the company, it appears that the new project could incorporate procedural ...

With procedural content generation, you build data algorithmically rather than manually — think Minecraft worlds, replete with all the terrains and mobs you’d expect, but distributed differently for ...