Generating terrain and/or art

If you love to fritter away time on the Internet -- and who doesn't -- may I suggest these two inspirational resources?

Art generation:
http://www.generative.net/links.cgi

Terrain generation:
http://www.vterrain.org/index.html

Posted by Gughunter on Tuesday, March 18, 2008 03:27PM - 4 comments / Members say: yea +0, nay -0
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#4 Gughunter:  

Well, I tend to think that just about anything is potentially useful for BYOND games, since 80% of the challenge of programming (for me, at least) is coming up with an interesting idea -- sometimes it's enough even to have a single "hook" that I can build a game around. And if inspiration doesn't strike immediately, looking at new and different things can still plant "seeds" that eventually sprout into ideas.

Here are a few neat links from those pages.

http://www.sanbase.com/
http://www.logarithmic.net/ghost.xhtml
http://www.solaas.com.ar/dreamlines/
http://incubator.quasimondo.com/flash/fractal_machines.php

http://www.vterrain.org/Elevation/Caves/
http://www.vterrain.org/Culture/culture_class.html

Tuesday, March 18, 2008 05:05PM

#3 Kunark:  

Height map generation has a few small uses on BYOND. Not particularly with the average game, though. It could probably be used with a side-scroller or a game that uses country maps (sort of like incursion).

It also looks like it has some city generators which could be implimented in complete 2D.

Tuesday, March 18, 2008 04:57PM

#2 Mecha Destroyer JD:  

Foomer wrote:
> You see any links in there that would be particularly useful for BYOND games, or is this just a general advertisement?

Hmm..Midi F***er sounds interesting...0_0

Tuesday, March 18, 2008 04:28PM

#1 Foomer:  

You see any links in there that would be particularly useful for BYOND games, or is this just a general advertisement?

Tuesday, March 18, 2008 03:31PM

 

 

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