Procedural Content Generation for C++ Game Development

Exercises

To enable you to test your knowledge of this chapter's content, here are a few exercises that you should work on. They are not imperative to the rest of the book, but working on them will help you access your strengths and weaknesses in the material covered.

1. Using the std::rand() function with the modulo operator (%), for updating random_numbers.cpp to generate numbers that fall within the following ranges:
   • 0 to 1000
   • 150 to 600
   • 198 to 246
2. Come up with a new way of generating a random seed during the runtime. There are lots of ways to do this. So be creative! In my solution, the first numbers were always similar. Find out whether you can generate a random seed that mitigates that.
3. Have a look at your game collection and find out whether you ...