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• Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 When and Why to Use Procedural Generation
• Planning When To Use Procedural Generation / Darren Grey
• Integral / Darren Grey
• Drafting Content / Darren Grey
• Modal / Darren Grey
• Segmented / Darren Grey
• When PCG Is A Bad Idea / Darren Grey
• Quality Assurance / Darren Grey
• Time Restrictions / Darren Grey
• Authored Experience / Darren Grey
• Multiplayer / Darren Grey
• Just Random / Darren Grey
• Overreliance on PCG / Darren Grey
• Why Use Procedural Generation? / Darren Grey
• Utilitarian / Darren Grey
• Unique / Darren Grey
• ch. 2 Managing Output: Boredom versus Chaos / Darren Grey
• ch. 3 Aesthetics in Procedural Generation / Kenny Backus
• Atmosphere In Sunless Sea / Liam Welton
• Establishing The Rules / Liam Welton

• Blurring The Boundaries / Liam Welton
• Result / Liam Welton
• ch. 4 Designing for Modularity / Liam Welton
• Modules And Gestalts / Jason Grinblat
• Assembly Mechanisms And Gestalt Spaces / Jason Grinblat
• Enabling Play / Jason Grinblat
• Mechanics As Shared Substrates / Jason Grinblat
• Orthogonality / Jason Grinblat
• Equivalence Of Impact / Jason Grinblat
• Plotting Desirable Gestalts / Jason Grinblat
• Inserting Memorable Asymmetry / Jason Grinblat
• Reference / Jason Grinblat
• ch. 5 Ethical Procedural Generation / Jason Grinblat
• Talking In Code / Michael Cook
• Big Wide World / Michael Cook
• You Are What You Eat / Michael Cook
• Talking The Talk / Michael Cook
• Future / Michael Cook
• ch. 6 Level Design I: Case Study / Michael Cook
• Overview / Chris Chung
• Rules / Chris Chung
• How It Works / Chris Chung
• Conclusion / Chris Chung
• ch. 7 Level Design II: Handcrafted Integration / Chris Chung
• Standard Dungeons / Jim Shepard
• Crypt Generation / Jim Shepard
• Best Practices / Jim Shepard
• Dungeonmans Dungeon Generation Pseudocode / Jim Shepard
• Dungeonmans Crypt Generation Pseudocode / Jim Shepard
• ch. 8 Level Design III: Architecture and Destruction / Jim Shepard
• Architecture Generation / Evan Hahn
• Step 1: Calculate the Bounding Box / Evan Hahn
• Step 2: Split the Box into Regions / Evan Hahn
• Step 3: Skim Perimeter Regions / Evan Hahn
• Step 4: Place Connections / Evan Hahn
• Step 5: Assign Region Types / Evan Hahn
• Step 6: Make Adjustments / Evan Hahn
• Step 7: Generate the Regions / Evan Hahn
• Discussion / Evan Hahn
• ch. 9 Cyclic Generation / Evan Hahn
• Cycles / Joris Dormans
• Using Graphs To Express Cycles / Joris Dormans
• Patterns / Joris Dormans
• Implementation / Joris Dormans
• Aside: Lock-And-Key Attributes / Joris Dormans
• Locks Might Be Conditional, Dangerous, or Uncertain / Joris Dormans
• Locks Are Permanent, Reversible, Temporary, or Collapsing / Joris Dormans
• Locks Might Be Valves or Asymmetrical / Joris Dormans
• Locks and Keys Can Be Safe or Unsafe / Joris Dormans
• Keys Can Be Single Purpose or Multipurpose / Joris Dormans
• Keys Are Particular or Nonparticular / Joris Dormans
• Keys Might Be Consumed or Persistent / Joris Dormans
• Keys Might Be Fixed in Place / Joris Dormans
• Tilemaps / Joris Dormans
• Discussion / Joris Dormans
• ch. 10 Worlds / Joris Dormans
• Brief History Of World Generation / Mark R. Johnson
• Why Make Worlds? / Mark R. Johnson
• Exploration / Mark R. Johnson
• Expansive Or Complex Worlds / Mark R. Johnson
• Gameplay Variation / Mark R. Johnson
• Qualitative Procedural Generation / Mark R. Johnson
• ch. 11 Puzzles / Mark R. Johnson
• Procedurally Generating Puzzles / Danny Day
• Puzzle-Spaces / Danny Day
• Desired Outputs / Danny Day
• Puzzle Generation Approaches / Danny Day
• Random Start State / Danny Day
• Backward From Goal State / Danny Day
• Heuristics / Danny Day
• Extra Bonus: Permutations / Danny Day
• Desktop Dungeons, The Puzzle Roguelike / Danny Day
• More Puzzle Than Roguelike? / Danny Day
• More Roguelike Than Puzzle? / Danny Day
• Player Hope As A Resource / Danny Day
• Guaranteeing Solvability / Danny Day
• Generating Hope / Danny Day
• Conclusion / Danny Day
• ch. 12 Procedural Logic / Danny Day
• Background / Ben Kane
• Usual Approach To Procedural Generation / Ben Kane
• Different Application: Procedural Logic / Ben Kane
• How The Rule Logic Is Generated / Ben Kane
• Trivial Case / Ben Kane
• Countable Problems / Ben Kane
• Not So Trivial: Procedural Logic / Ben Kane
• Generating Rules / Ben Kane
• Queries: Asking Questions / Ben Kane
• Solutions: Taking Action / Ben Kane
• Improving The Process / Ben Kane
• Better Queries / Ben Kane
• Compound Queries / Ben Kane
• Query Contexts / Ben Kane
• Better Solutions / Ben Kane
• Rigging The Deck: Random That Feels Good / Ben Kane
• Dealing with Degenerates / Ben Kane
• Avoiding the Impossible / Ben Kane
• Putting It All Together / Ben Kane
• Conclusion / Ben Kane
• ch. 13 Artificial Intelligence / Ben Kane
• Unpredictability And Artificial Intelligence / Mark R. Johnson
• Movement And Combat / Mark R. Johnson
• Ambient Behavior / Mark R. Johnson
• Emergent Phenomena / Mark R. Johnson
• Conversations / Mark R. Johnson
• Dialects / Mark R. Johnson
• Conversation System / Mark R. Johnson
• Conclusion / Mark R. Johnson
• ch. 14 Procedural Enemy Waves / Mark R. Johnson
• Method 1: Spawn By Timer / Wyatt Cheng
• Spawn By Timer Pseudocode / Wyatt Cheng
• Commentary / Wyatt Cheng
• Key Characteristics / Wyatt Cheng
• Method 2: Spawn On Completion / Wyatt Cheng
• Spawn On Completion Pseudocode / Wyatt Cheng
• Commentary / Wyatt Cheng
• Key Characteristics / Wyatt Cheng
• Method 3: Continuously Escalating Total / Wyatt Cheng
• Continuously Escalating Total Pseudocode / Wyatt Cheng
• Commentary / Wyatt Cheng
• Key Characteristics / Wyatt Cheng
• Method 4: Hitpoint Progression / Wyatt Cheng
• Hitpoint Progression Pseudocode / Wyatt Cheng
• Commentary / Wyatt Cheng
• Key Characteristics / Wyatt Cheng
• Conclusion / Wyatt Cheng
• ch. 15 Generative Artwork / Wyatt Cheng
• Techniques / Loren Schmidt
• Perception Of Intent / Loren Schmidt
• ch. 16 Generative Art Toys / Loren Schmidt
• Building Art Toys, For Experts And Novices / Kate Compton
• Experience Of Art Toys / Kate Compton
• Trading Control For Power / Kate Compton
• Design And Construction Of Art Toys / Kate Compton
• Inputs / Kate Compton
• Data and Transformations / Kate Compton
• Points and Rotations / Kate Compton
• Connectivity and Meshes / Kate Compton
• Gestural Curves / Kate Compton
• Forces and Acceleration / Kate Compton
• Rendering / Kate Compton
• Outside The Generator: Judgment, Sharing, And Curation / Kate Compton
• Conclusions: Creativity For Anyone / Kate Compton
• ch. 17 Audio and Composition / Kate Compton
• Procedural Audio In Skipping Stones / Bronson Zgeb
• Sampling / Bronson Zgeb
• Pitch / Bronson Zgeb
• Implementation / Bronson Zgeb
• Procedural Composition In Skipping Stones / Bronson Zgeb
• Beat / Bronson Zgeb
• Scale / Bronson Zgeb
• Steps / Bronson Zgeb
• Chords / Bronson Zgeb
• Motif and Repetition / Bronson Zgeb
• Conclusion / Bronson Zgeb
• ch. 18 Story and Plot Generation / Bronson Zgeb
• Grammars And Story Grammars / Ben Kybartas
• Game World / Ben Kybartas
• Story Model / Ben Kybartas
• Rule Design / Ben Kybartas
• Secondary Rewrite Rules / Ben Kybartas
• Game World Simulation / Ben Kybartas
• Metric-Guided Generation / Ben Kybartas
• Conclusions / Ben Kybartas
• ch.
• 19 Emergent Narratives and Story Volumes / Ben Kybartas
• Motivation / Jason Grinblat
• Voice In The Machine / Jason Grinblat
• Fiasco: A Case Study / Jason Grinblat
• Unpacking Your Themes / Jason Grinblat
• Grist For The Narrative Mill / Jason Grinblat
• ch. 20 Poetry Generation / Jason Grinblat
• ch. 21 Characters and Personalities / Harry Tuffs
• Introduction / Emily Short
• Source Material / Emily Short
• Realization / Emily Short
• Selecting Dialogue / Emily Short
• Layering Dialogue Features / Emily Short
• Character And World Interaction / Emily Short
• Creation / Emily Short
• Orthogonal / Emily Short
• Mechanically Significant / Emily Short
• Easy To Communicate / Emily Short
• Meaningful In Combination / Emily Short
• Recurring Strategies / Emily Short
• Combining Output From Several Layers Of Simulation Or Gameplay / Emily Short
• Bringing Character Into Every Interaction / Emily Short
• Juxtaposing Events And Interpretation / Emily Short
• Callbacks To Earlier Events / Emily Short
• Pitfalls / Emily Short
• Overgeneralization / Emily Short
• Overrealism / Emily Short
• Untamed Simulation / Emily Short
• ch. 22 Understanding the Generated / Emily Short
• Expressive Range And Generative Spaces / Gillian Smith
• Qualities Of The Generated / Gillian Smith
• Types Of Qualities / Gillian Smith
• Example / Gillian Smith
• Formalizing Qualities Into Metrics / Gillian Smith
• Example / Gillian Smith
• Metrics Versus Requirements / Gillian Smith
• Qualities Of The Generator / Gillian Smith
• Visualizing Expressive Range / Gillian Smith
• Histograms / Gillian Smith
• Example / Gillian Smith
• Distance-Based Clustering / Gillian Smith
• Conclusion / Gillian Smith
• References / Gillian Smith
• Contents note continued: ch. 23 Content Tools Case Study / Gillian Smith
• System Overview / Kepa Auwae
• Example Room / Kepa Auwae
• ch. 24 Automated Game Tuning / Kepa Auwae
• Step 1: Set Parameters / Aaron Isaksen
• Step 2: Generate The Game Level / Aaron Isaksen
• Step 3: Simulate The Game / Aaron Isaksen
• Step 4: Analyze The Data / Aaron Isaksen
• Step 5: Visualize The Data And Make Adjustments / Aaron Isaksen
• Conclusion / Aaron Isaksen
• Acknowledgments / Aaron Isaksen
• ch. 25 Generating Rules / Aaron Isaksen
• Mix And Match / Michael Cook
• Game Design 101 / Michael Cook
• Throwing Out The Rulebook / Michael Cook
• ch. 26 Algorithms and Approaches / Michael Cook
• Random Numbers / Brian Bucklew
• Pseudorandom Number Generators / Brian Bucklew
• Making Use of Repeatable Series / Brian Bucklew
• Seeds and Hashing / Brian Bucklew
• Rolling Dice / Brian Bucklew
• Normal Distributions / Brian Bucklew
• Weighted Distributions / Brian Bucklew
• Heightmaps / Brian Bucklew
• Box Linear Filters / Brian Bucklew
• Midpoint Displacement / Brian Bucklew
• Perlin and Simplex Noise / Brian Bucklew
• Sequence Generation / Brian Bucklew
• Lindenmayer Systems (L-Systems) / Brian Bucklew
• Markov Chains / Brian Bucklew
• Filling Space / Brian Bucklew
• Random Walks / Brian Bucklew
• One-Dimensional Random Walks / Brian Bucklew
• Two-Dimensional Random Walks / Brian Bucklew
• Cellular Automata / Brian Bucklew
• Settling / Brian Bucklew
• Wang Tiles / Brian Bucklew
• Partitioning Space / Brian Bucklew
• Binary Space Partition / Brian Bucklew
• Voronoi Diagrams / Brian Bucklew
• Dijkstra Maps / Brian Bucklew
• Tree Mapping / Brian Bucklew
• Putting It All Together / Brian Bucklew
• ch. 27 Meaning / Brian Bucklew
• Meaning In Games / Mark R. Johnson
• Meaninglessness In Games / Mark R. Johnson
• Designer And Player Meaning / Mark R. Johnson
• Meaning In Qualitative Procedural Generation / Mark R. Johnson
• Conclusion / Mark R. Johnson.

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Contributors:

Short, Tanya , editor

Adams, Tarn , editor

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Subjects:

Level design (Computer science)

Video games — Design

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Call Numbers:

QA76.76.C672 P76 2017eb

ISBNs:

9781498799201 (electronic bk.)
1498799205 (electronic bk.)
9781498799195 [Invalid]
1498799191 [Invalid]
9781138743311 [Invalid]
1138743313 [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

990267798

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