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[CaptainKraft]

One of the problems I've found with learning PCG is that the absolute beginner information is hard to find. The PCG wiki and Roguelike sites offer a ton of amazing information, but it's a bit intimidating. Also, the thread here on TIG for PCG has some broken links and I couldn't find what I was looking for when I got started.

That's why I wrote a tutorial for how to get started with PCG with a super simple dungeon generator. Ask any questions you like, I'd love to answer them

[Excy]

One of the problems I've found with learning PCG is that the absolute beginner information is hard to find. The PCG wiki and Roguelike sites offer a ton of amazing information, but it's a bit intimidating. Also, the thread here on TIG for PCG has some broken links and I couldn't find what I was looking for when I got started.

That's why I wrote a tutorial for how to get started with PCG with a super simple dungeon generator. Ask any questions you like, I'd love to answer them

The link is a little broken, managed to get there though

[poe]

http://gamedev.tutsplus.com/tutorials/game-design/create-a-procedurally-generated-dungeon-cave-system/

[Daid]

I think most PCG tutorials (including this one) miss the basic idea behind PCG, and that's that you automate what you normally could do by hand.

I think the basis of PCG starts on paper. How would you generate a dungeon by hand? What steps would you walk trough? And then automate those steps.

[s0]

And then automate those steps.

The thing is that this step can seem impossible if you're a bad or inexperienced programmer, and learning how to generate a simple layout can help you conceptualize your own levelgen ideas in code terms.

[CaptainKraft]

Thanks everyone for the feedback. I managed to fix that stupid mistake that broke the link.

The goal of the post is to help beginners ease into PCG. The way I approached that was to make it very easy to follow with some clear concepts that are easy to implement. Hopefully the article does the job

[Daid]

And then automate those steps.

The thing is that this step can seem impossible if you're a bad or inexperienced programmer, and learning how to generate a simple layout can help you conceptualize your own levelgen ideas in code terms.

I know, that's why these tutorials are valuable. But to me it feels a bit like explaining how to build a plane without explaining that wings are needed for lift.

[toborprime]

I found this tutorial really helpful - a lot of murky concepts made clear, and makes me more excited to do more experimenting with this stuff. Thanks for posting this