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via // dvint1: This is the same technique that the game The Sentinel  used to generate 10,000 Solid Rendered 3D levels on the Spectrum 48k in 1986. spime: Subversion: a procedurally-generated city to infiltrate uses a programming technique where pseudorandom number generators are fed into an algorithm, and that then cranks out a near-infinite amount of content. Streets, lamp-posts, rooms, buildings, and anything else that a city needs can be assembled in a relatively short space of time just from a string of numbers. (via quietbabylon) Another title called .kkrieger used procedural generation for almost its entire mechanics. By coding an algorithm that can design textures, level layouts, models, animations and sound, it managed to fit an entire first-person shooter videogame into just 96kb — about 1/70 of the size of an MP3.

via // dvint1:

This is the same technique that the game The Sentinel  used to generate 10,000 Solid Rendered 3D levels on the Spectrum 48k in 1986.

spime:

Subversion: a procedurally-generated city to infiltrate uses a programming technique where pseudorandom number generators are fed into an algorithm, and that then cranks out a near-infinite amount of content. Streets, lamp-posts, rooms, buildings, and anything else that a city needs can be assembled in a relatively short space of time just from a string of numbers.

(via quietbabylon)

Another title called .kkrieger used procedural generation for almost its entire mechanics. By coding an algorithm that can design textures, level layouts, models, animations and sound, it managed to fit an entire first-person shooter videogame into just 96kb — about 1/70 of the size of an MP3.

Source: wired.co.uk

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    Now that’s cool. Can’t believe it actually goes down...‘office floorplan’ level
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    Weird, *just last night* I was thinking how awesome it would be to see a port of Sentinel for the iPad. I played mine on...
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    WOAH. Uplink! That was one of my favorite games back in the day!
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    design textures, level layouts, models, animations and sound, it managed to fit an entire first-person shooter videogame...
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    programming technique where pseudorandom number generators are fed into an algorithm,
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