Procedural Generation in Game Design

Short, Tanya; Adams, Tarn

ISBN 10: 1498799191 / ISBN 13: 9781498799195

Published by A K Peters/CRC Press, Boca Rotan, Florida, 2017

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Trade size paperback with no defects as it appears to be unread. Technical on gaming programming. 320 pages including the Index. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Seller Inventory # 020492

Bibliographic Details

Title: Procedural Generation in Game Design

Publisher: A K Peters/CRC Press, Boca Rotan, Florida

Publication Date: 2017

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: NF

Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket as Issued

Edition: 1st Edition.

Book Type: Book

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Synopsis:

Making a game can be an intensive process, and if not planned accurately can easily run over budget. The use of procedural generation in game design can help with the intricate and multifarious aspects of game development; thus facilitating cost reduction. This form of development enables games to create their play areas, objects and stories based on a set of rules, rather than relying on the developer to handcraft each element individually. Readers will learn to create randomized maps, weave accidental plotlines, and manage complex systems that are prone to unpredictable behavior. Tanya Short’s and Tarn Adams’ Procedural Generation in Game Design offers a wide collection of chapters from various experts that cover the implementation and enactment of procedural generation in games. Designers from a variety of studios provide concrete examples from their games to illustrate the many facets of this emerging sub-discipline.

Key Features:

• Introduces the differences between static/traditional game design and procedural game design
• Demonstrates how to solve or avoid common problems with procedural game design in a variety of concrete ways
• Includes industry leaders’ experiences and lessons from award-winning games
• World’s finest guide for how to begin thinking about procedural design

About the Author:

Tanya X. Short is the director of Kitfox Games, the indie game studio behind Moon Hunters and Shattered Planet. Previously, she worked as a designer at Funcom Games on The Secret World and Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures. In her spare time, she acts as the co-director of Pixelles, a non-profit helping more women make games.

Tarn Adams is best known as the developer of Dwarf Fortress since 2002 with his older brother Zach. He learned programming in his childhood, and designed computer games as a hobby until he quit his first year of a mathematics post doctorate at Texas A&M to focus on game development in 2006.