Procedural content generation
Software concept
Any tags describing various types of algorithmically created content.
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Games by year
Badland Studio, Shorebound Studios and Levels or Lives published most of these games.
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| Fractal Generating | Makes notable use of fractal generation to create graphics, sound, or the game world (or aspects of it). | 1985 / 2013 | 9 games |
| Generated characters | Player is given a procedurally generated character to play as, possibly a choice between several such. Likely generated each time new game is started or each time such are needed. | 2012 / 2014 | 8 games |
| Procedural item generator | Uses a procedural item generator to create a vast number of "unique" items by combining various traits with base items. Does not necessarily affect appearance of said items. | 1996 / 2021 | 103 games |
| Map generator | Uses (random) map/level generator to create most or all areas where the player can go to instead of shipping with regular human designed static levels or maps. | 1975 / 2023 | 766 games |
| Procedural character appearance | Procedurally generates how (certain) characters (mainly enemies) look like. Does not necessarily affect the stats of said characters. | 2001 / 2014 | 2 games |
| Procedural NPC generator | Procedurally generates NPCs/enemies, such as what they are capable of and what they look like. (too short) | 3 games | |
| Procedurally generated story | Procedurally generates the story, such as selecting large number of elements, objects, people, locations, etc. out of a large pool existing things or even procedurally generates those as well. | 4 games | |
| Procedural texturing | Uses programmatically generated textures, possibly even generating them on-the-fly. (too short) | 2006 / 2014 | 5 games |
| Random seed | Player is asked to provide a seed for the random number generator in some manner. Possibly with the game generating one or more by default as well. | 2011 / 2023 | 18 games |
| Task generator | Player is given randomly generated tasks, quests, missions, etc. to complete. (too short) | 1994 / 2018 | 67 games |