Usage of PCG
The reasons we might consider using PCG include unique, robustness, adaptability, and size. We might strive for our player to experience the game in their own truly unique play-through. We could use PCG to take the content that we have designed and make truly robust games that would take many hours to explore every inch of. We can make our game adapt to the player in interesting ways such as scaling the difficulty to easier or harder based on the actions of the player.
Size, though, is an interesting benefit to PCG. Well before games played with amazing HD graphics at 60 frames a second, they were mostly text based. Early computer systems were very limited both in processing power and storage memory. One of the earliest occurrences ...
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