The use of procedural generation in games
Now we know what procedural generation is, and that it's the element of randomness we add that lets us create dynamic systems, let's take a look at some examples of how it is used in games. There are countless ways in which it can be utilized; the following are just a few major implementations.
Saving space
Necessity, as the saying goes, is the mother of invention. As developers of today we're spoiled with the hardware that we have at our disposal. Even the most baseline machines that you'll get today will have a hard drive of 500 GB in size and up as standard. This is quite a luxury considering that just a couple of decades ago that would be MB and not GB.
Game distribution was also a very different game ...
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