#procgen project

Hermit

An interactive procedurally generated landscape by Lingdong Huang.

A hermit walks through a landscape of fractal trees and generated hills.

I like this kind of thing: it demonstrates a number of different techniques for generative art and nicely ties them together.

Running it requires Python. (I just used Anaconda and pip for a relatively easy setup, but I’ve dealt with this kind of thing before.)

https://github.com/LingDong-/Hermit

Fractal Forest (Procjam 2015)

Another ProcJam project from 2015′s jam. While the voronoi textures are eye-catching, the real purpose behind this one seems to be generating the node-based path movement graph.

The pathing doesn’t always respect the terrain height, but the aesthetic effect is rather striking. Though the textures aren’t generated at run time, the overall feel suggests an opportunity to make something that’s consciously and obviously entirely generative. Layering some additional levels of generators might break up the homogeneity and start to flower into something unique. Still, for a jam project: definitely eye-catching.

http://cry-havoc.itch.io/fractal-forest

Procedural Dungeon Generator

I don’t remember how I came across it, but here’s an interesting little online procedural dungeon generator by Luis Eduardo Reis.

it’s apparently inspired by this dungeon generation article by Bob Nystrom, which helpfully includes source code if you want to try your hand at making your own maze-based dungeon generator.