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PANORAMICAL

Like with other aspects of AI, there are some procgen techniques that have faded into the background: it can sometimes be hard for me to tell if a game has a random map generator because that’s no longer the unique selling point it once was.

On the other end of the spectrum there are things like Panoramical, which couldn’t exist without procgen techniques to give it a complete generative space to explore. In each world the player has eighteen different dimensions to travel in, each reacting with its own link to the music and effects.

I’ve mentioned the value of having a completely connected manifold to explore; this is one way to implement it. Like Mu Cartographer, you really have to see it in motion: the smooth transitions from one state to the other are a major part of the draw.

There’s also some relationship with Proteus, which shouldn’t be surprising, since they share a composer.

Krámpack / Nico and Dani Cesc Gay. 2000

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20 años del estreno de La Buena Vida

El 13 de diciembre de 1997 se estrenó la película La buena vida. 20 años después, solo uno de los cines que la proyectó en su estreno sigue abierto. La película se sigue viendo igual, pero nada es igual. Tampoco para su director, David Trueba, y para los dos adolescentes que interpretaban los papeles principales: Lucía Jiménez y Fernando Ramallo. Para los tres era su primera película. Este…

Happy Recipes for Weird Things

From ProcJam 2014, a short talk by Fernando Ramallo (who is the co-designer for Panoramical, an exploration of procedurally generated musical landscapes). 

His focus is on using procedural generation as a tool for discovery. We can use it to unearth ideas that would never have occurred to us on our own. He also points out that the flexibility of procedural generation means that you can let the player interact with the generator. 

The video is dense with ideas: there’s lot’s more in there. Go watch it!