Procedural Content Generation for C++ Game Development

Benefits of procedural generation

We've looked at some of the key ways in which procedural generation is used in games. So now let's take a look at some of its most important benefits.

Larger games can be created

If your game world is hand-built, it's going to have size restrictions for a number of reasons. Every object needs to be placed manually, every texture/model needs to be handcrafted, and so on. All of this takes time and money. Even the largest handcrafted game's world sizes, such as those seen in The The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt and Grand Theft Auto V, pale in comparison to what procedurally generated worlds can achieve.

If a game utilizes procedural generation correctly, then theoretically, there is no limit to the world size. For example, ...