On Randomly Generated Content In Games

Posted by simoniker on Wednesday September 10, 2003 @06:21AM from the x-then-y-then-y-then-x dept.

Thanks to Skotos.net for their article discussing randomly-generated content in videogames, in which the author discusses pioneering games with random elements, suggesting: "One of the reasons [classic RPG] Rogue was so popular (and spawned so many children) is due to its generation of random content." But he goes on to point out: "Computers don't have the imagination to make good puzzles... asking a computer to create an interesting puzzle is very similar to asking it to tell a story, make up a joke, or create a riddle." The suggested answer is game elements "placed randomly within the [linear] structure", but with recent random level-generating games such as Toe Jam & Earl III striking out, how far should randomness be taken in games?

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Another Game with pretty good Random Content by Alliante · 2003-09-10 06:25 · Score: 0, Redundant

Try Diablo and Diablo II.

Some of the dungeons were all consistent in feel, but almost always random each time you played the game. Though they're just crawlers.