Procedural Generation in Game Design

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1. meheleventyoneSep 2023
   Missing any Game Design books so my picks:

   Game Feel - Steve Swink - 2008

   The Art of Game Design a Deck of Lenses - Jesse Schell - 2014

   101 Things I Learned in Architecture School - Matthew Frederick - 2007

   Writing for Games: Theory & Practice - Hannah Nicklin - 2022

   Procedural Generation in Game Design - Tanya Short/Tarn Adams - 2017

   Procedural Storytelling in Game Design - Tanya Short/Tarn Adams - 2019

   A Theory of Fun - Raph Koster - 2013

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2. codesushi42Jun 2019
   Procedural Generation in Game Design - provides a good overview, but is a bit light on implementation details. https://www.amazon.com/Procedural-Generation-Design-Tanya-Sh...

   Mazes for Programmers - only covers procedural mazes, but contains a lot of code and different types of mazes. https://www.amazon.com/Mazes-Programmers-Twisty-Little-Passa...

   Great channel with Unity tutorials on terrain generation, cave generation using cellular automata etc: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmtyQOKKmrMVaKuRXz02jbQ

   Procedural Content Generation for C++ Game Development - decent, but basic book with 2D examples in SFML. https://www.packtpub.com/game-development/procedural-content...

   Procedural generation Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/proceduralgeneration/

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3. otikikDec 2022
   "Procedural Generation in Game Design" was edited by Tarn Adams (df author) and Tanya Short.

   https://www.routledge.com/Procedural-Generation-in-Game-Desi...

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4. KapuraApr 2018
   Currently I have:

   - Procedural Generation in Game Design

   - The Art of Halo 3

   - PUBG + Cats

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