How an algorithm created music out of people’s unrehearsed interactions
Watch the audience sing as it moves.
procedural generation
How No Man’s Sky paints 18 quintillion worlds with an algorithmic brush
“Funnel them into a box of ‘maths’.”
Shape of the World’s creator wants you to get lost in ephemeral beauty
“I find pleasure in getting lost in a place I’m familiar with.”
A new video of Starboretum looks at trees in an otherwordly light
The children of Proteus keep multiplying.
Secret Habitat explores the phenomena of procedural art
“Emptiness grows,” it is stated at the beginning of the game.
Infini-Quest teaches us to focus on the journey, not the destination
You’ve done it, haven’t you? Of course you have—you’re a human being, and more than that, one who has the spoils of modern living out to entertain you at every corner. It all became a noise to you at one point, didn’t it? You were lost; tragically you’d say, in the toils of a life yet to be lived.
Leave ’em Laughing wants to let you experience the existential terror of stand-up comedy
What would you do for a laugh?
Here sprawls Izle, which is some sort of fantasy No Man’s Sky
Look, I think No Man’s Sky looks great. I do. But I’m also a bit flabbergasted by it: I have never seen a game capture the popular imagination the way that one has. It comes up unbidden in most casual conversations I have with people about videogames. A big part of this, of course, is potential: the
You are the challenge in Crawl
But good luck figuring out what Crawl really is.
Mountain is a first step toward more human-centered game design
Easy to learn, easy to master.
Miopia goes on forever, horrifyingly
“You can climb any mountain”? Pah!
Let’s procedurally generate something besides landscapes
Noir Syndrome proves all the directions “infinity” can go.
There’s a lot more to No Man’s Sky than drifting infinitely through space
As we’re reminded in this mini-documentary, No Man’s Sky’s universe will be approximately the size of God. Here, project lead Sean Murray of Hello Games talks headily about how the game will let you discover a universe with a limitless number of planets the actual size of Earth. This sounds great fr
Daylight turns the mundanity of procedural generation into terror
Round and round we go.
Road to Two5Six: Tarn and Zach Adams
The Dwarf Fortress devs have spent their lives making a game about life.
Minecraft, No Man’s Sky, and the hunt for a true archaeology sim
Procedural generation is all the rage. But it’s missing something: life.
This Twitter bot might be the world’s greatest pixel artist
I know that art is supposedly the ultimate expression of human emotions and whatnot, but THIS ARTBOT. Like clockwork, it creates and churns out abstract and frequently mesmerizing pixel art four times a day. It’s called Great Artist and it lives up to the moniker. This is truly impressive work for a