Procedurally Generating History in Caves of Qud

GDC Festival of Gaming
2 HN recommenders · recommended in 2 months, 2018–2019
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A GDC talk on how the roguelike Caves of Qud generates its world's history procedurally. It covers how the game builds histories and stories for places and characters from generated material.

HN people add it to lists of procedural generation talks and find its approach to generated history pretty interesting.

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@Impossible2019 · in “Procedural content generation: creating a universe (2015)”
To add to your list here are some more talks! Machine Learning and Level Generation link Roguelike celebration has a ton of content on procedural generation techniques and its worth watching all of them, but this one was one of my favorites. link GPU-Based Procedural Placement in Horizon Zero Dawn link link Procedurally Generating History in 'Caves of Qud' ▶ this video ProcJam has a lot of good talks as well link
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@siavosh2018 · in “Medieval Fantasy City Generator”
The game "Caves of Qud"'s creators have given some GDC talks on procedurally generated histories [1] which I thought was pretty interesting. But it all seems very limited and hacked since NLP research is still very far from creating any useful text generation like good summaries let alone fiction. [1] ▶ this video
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