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[Cakeprediction]

Trying to generate some spiraling-ish islands in game maker, but I'm currently not that successful D:
I think I'm having trouble with figuring out my plan of approach

red tiles are background tiles, purple tiles are island tiles, brown tiles are the base island tiles and the green blue-ish is the background

[BomberTREE]

Interesting, what exactly are you wanting out of a spiral island shape?

(Also your colors meanings confuse me )

[Cakeprediction]

Interesting, what exactly are you wanting out of a spiral island shape?

(Also your colors meanings confuse me )

I honestly have no idea, I wanted to make some fun platform level thingies, but currently the thing's being shitty and I kinda raged at it :'D

Right now I have this stuff, I hope it's a little bit more clear instead of the random colour coding :'D

As you can see not everything gets tiled and there are darker blocks of blue sky, which are solid blocks that stay there for no reason and don't tile.
It's a pretty buggy thing, so I might want to redo it in a better way.

[ori]

THis is a really interesting subject, we are trying to create an action puzzle that generates levels based on small prefabricated puzzle scenes, so far its hard to tell if that is the best approach for puzzles.

[BomberTREE]

THis is a really interesting subject, we are trying to create an action puzzle that generates levels based on small prefabricated puzzle scenes, so far its hard to tell if that is the best approach for puzzles.

I think it's great to approach puzzles that way if randomness works well with your rules!

[BomberTREE]

Hearing some awesome stuff about Voronoi from my friend Gord!

[Sik]

Bump:



Amusingly those rocks don't have any 3D calculations at all (not even anything you could consider "2.5D"), it's entirely sine/cosine trickery right there. Looks like the rocks from Sonic 3D, which is nice. (those patches of grass are cheated just as much)

[Eigen]

River names ... with questionable results at times

[rhill]

Tunnels

[travis_foo]

been working on the system to create this for awhile...

[BomberTREE]

@Sik
Haha those are cute!

@Eigen
Yesss, that's hilarious

@rhill
Those tunnels are very trippy! They get pretty distorted in the center.

@travis_foo
Oh hey!
Could you explain what you're doing a bit?

[travis_foo]

@travis_foo
Oh hey!
Could you explain what you're doing a bit?

Ah, yes, should have explained.

i've been working on an infinite terrain system. the terrain is split into tiles (9x9 in this case). When the player moves forward past the center tile, some of the tiles move and recalculate their height. the gif doesn't really show what's been the hardest part of making this, which is the threading and waiting. My goal was to get no frame drops on my Macbook (which I've finally achieved). I'm using Unity, and while you can use threading, you can't use any API calls in a thread. So trying to get the physics and mesh creation to have good performance was a challenge.

[BomberTREE]

@travis_foo
Oh hey!
Could you explain what you're doing a bit?

Ah, yes, should have explained.

i've been working on an infinite terrain system. the terrain is split into tiles (9x9 in this case). When the player moves forward past the center tile, some of the tiles move and recalculate their height. the gif doesn't really show what's been the hardest part of making this, which is the threading and waiting. My goal was to get no frame drops on my Macbook (which I've finally achieved). I'm using Unity, and while you can use threading, you can't use any API calls in a thread. So trying to get the physics and mesh creation to have good performance was a challenge.

Okay, that's what I thought you were doing!
I guess it surprised me because your gif shows it happening step by step 

Good job on the mac optimization

[BomberTREE]

Something I've always wanted to make 


An always-completable level generator that gets more complicated with time.

[skaz]

Tried my hand at random gen for my ludum dare entry, not wonderful, but it was an interesting experience!

[NoLocality]

What can I procedurally generate?

Why a never ending hellscape of screaming, laughing, honking clowns.  And I did...about a year ago all in one afternoon I threw this abomination of a walking simulator together.

I cooked up an account and threw it up on newgrounds so I could quickly send the link to a friend who was at work before they took it down, lo and behold they kept it...

infinite landscape: Generated
clowns: Generated
color values for the sky to strobe into: Generated(RIP any gif of gameplay)





By all means try it! Seriously though...seizure warning


@travis_foo I actually used a method similar to yours but inferior by far.  My method simply destroyed terrain behind and generated what was destroyed up front.

[BomberTREE]

@Skaz
You gotta start somewhere! And is that a bunch of gold I see?  
Edit: just saw your game, looks cool!

@NoLocality
Lol, that's one heck of an annoying gif man  
Screaming sounds and flickering images aren't my cup of tea, but if you made something a little less twitchy and more controlled, I could totally be interested! Exploring procgen can be sweet if done right. (Idk about a clown world though haha)

[NoLocality]

Exploring procgen can be sweet if done right. (Idk about a clown world though haha)

It can be sweet indeed!

A much less annoying example of mine would be the procgen ocean-waves from a prototype.  It could be accurately described as either starfox on a boat or waverace 64 with guns.

I sped up the wave generation 5x for this gif and you can see me attempting to gun down stationary enemies as my boat is being tossed like a rag doll...fyi I had to capture the gif from the scene view as the 'behind the boat' view was essentially a roller coaster with the ultra fast waves





The waves are generated via perlin noise, I took a stab at a more customized solution that collided sine-wave functions from separate axis's (axees?) but they either produced waves that were entirely to uniform/identical or simply didn't take kindly to introducing random elements into the calculations.

Not what I would assume comes to most people's mind when talking procgen but it certainly fits the bill.

[pelle]

Countersheets (for cardboard counters for actual physical print'n'play game) with generated robot images and stats experiment a few years ago:



<a href="https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/1280620/printnplay-collectible-game-prototype-and-ideas">description</a>

Have spent a lot of time since coming up with other ideas for how to use procedural generation to make physical boardgames (and thinking of why) but no more serious experiments so far.

EDIT: Summary: Each column on each page of counters is a squad. The idea was that you generate a lot of squads, print a few good ones, and play against someone else with whatever good squads they have found. Not a great idea, but wanted to try. Me and my brother had some fun generating squads and playtesting (once).

[BomberTREE]

@NoLocality
Haha I love waves like that mainly because of waverace64<3, they definitely fit the bill!

@pelle
Interesting idea, that's really original man. If you made sure every "sheet" was balanced with one another, you could really get something cool going where the players are responsible for picking the right units for the job 

Here's an update on my level generator for Magic Tower.

Objects are placed  strategically to keep gameplay interesting. (Key/Door/Enemy placement)