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Procedural Natural Systems for Game Level Design

Remco Huijser, Jeroen Dobbe, Willem F. Bronsvoort, and Rafael Bidarra

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Due to the increase in magnitude and level of detail of next-gen games, the time required to manually design a game level has increased dramatically. This paper introduces procedural natural systems, a novel approach aimed at reducing the time needed to design large-scale natural phenomena for game levels. The concept of natural systems separates the shape of a natural phenomenon from its footprint, allowing a designer to edit either of them separately. Various procedural techniques are used to combine the shape and footprint of a natural system, as well as to tweak these in real-time in a game world. We conclude that natural systems provide a solid foundation for intuitive, flexible and efficient procedural generation of significant portions of a game level.

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@inproceedings{bib:huijser:2010,
    author       = { Huijser, Remco and Dobbe, Jeroen and Bronsvoort, Willem F. and Bidarra, Rafael },    
    title        = { Procedural Natural Systems for Game Level Design },
    booktitle    = { In Proceedings of SBGames },
    year         = { 2010 },
    pages        = { 189--198 },
    doi          = { 10.1109/SBGAMES.2010.31 },
    dblp         = { conf/sbgames/HuijserDBB10 },
    url          = { https://publications.graphics.tudelft.nl/papers/581 },
}