Herbert Wolverson - Procedural Map Generation Techniques

Why HN readers recommended it

HN recommends it as a fun, informative survey of easy-to-implement dungeon generation methods from the author of the Rust roguelike tutorial.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Roguelike Celebration

Topic

procedural map generation

Format

talk

Level

intermediate

HN recommenders in dataset

4

HN mentions in dataset

4

Recommendation years in dataset

2021–2022

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From the original HN conversations

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• My favorite from that collection on map generation is by Herbert Wolverson: [VIDEO] He goes over 5 or 6 different techniques that are easy to implement.

• Congratulations on releasing your book. I watched one of your talks about procedural generation[0] and really enjoyed it, thanks! Mentioning this here since the tutorial linked above has a lot of procedural generation content [0] [VIDEO]

• This is what I used to learn Rust, in tandem with The Book. I would read a chapter of The Book, then do a chapter of Herbert's Roguelike Tutorial. Very well written and fun material, that guides you deep into a tricky space with very …