Category Archives: PCG

3
Oct

Literature Review of PCG in Puzzle Games

Posted by | Categories PCG

Hello,
Long time since posting (the usual me) but This post will be short and long at same time.

“How is that?” That’s easy, the post itself will be very short (just few words) but it will have an attached document (around 16 pages) which is the third chapter in my Master’s Thesis. This chapter is the literature review chapter (the third biggest chapter in my thesis) which I think one of the most entertaining chapters (to read obviously not to write :D).

“Why do I think its entertaining?” That’s also easy to reply, I combined lots of previous work about level and rule generation (look at the references), and a friend of mine enjoyed reading it and thought its the most entertaining chapter.

14
Jun

PCG in my Games

Posted by | Categories Alone in the Park, Atomic+, CleanEm Up, DivCircle, Match A Number, Pace Maker FP, PCG

Hello everybody,
Long time with no posts or updates here. It seems like desert, sorry for that but I am sure people who follow me on twitter knows I was busy with my Master’s Thesis in Procedural Content Generation (PCG). I have always used PCG in my games as an excuse for being lazy and not designing levels (as I am not amazing level designer). In this post I will wrap up quickly some of the PCGs I used in my games. In the next post will talk about PCG in my Master’s Thesis.

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As most of people noticed lots of my arcade games used PCG especially top down shooters (Clean’Em Up and Alone in the Park). All these games don’t have levels designed in advance, but instead they have enemy numbers and types to be generated. The system afterwards choose the most suitable location (away from the player position) and insert them. Pace Maker was a little different where the system generates the types and numbers based on the level of difficulty so as difficulty increase the number of enemies and variety of types increased.