What are your thoughts on procedurally generated environments? Are they really that big of a deal?

What are your thoughts on procedurally generated environments? Are they really that big of a deal?

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mfw that pic

mfw

I don't think they're inherently bad.
But more often than not procedurally generated shit is used as an excuse to be lazy and not make stuff by hand.

What's the matter faggot?

>starting a thread with a picture more interesting than your topic
rookie mistake

The environment generation always fails in comparison to hand place. If they go the route of hand made setpieces in random order, then you start to realize very quickly how often something is reused.

Procedural generation thrives in regards to enemy and item design, as it allows for unrivaled variety. However many devs dont realize this and simply dont create enough different enemies/variables on the enemy to create the variety that a progen game needs to be good

and on the other hand you got crap like risk of rain where the levels are so garbage it looks procedurally generated but its not

Procedural generation has its place, like any other part of game development. Over reliance on it, to the point that the environments are created entirely by a generator, is usually a sign of laziness or incompetence.

Or just a shitty type of game like No Man's Sky and its million billion planets.

For open ended exploration games like say Minecraft or something, its great. It also works for some dungeon crawler type games as well.

Really though, I generally prefer my environments handcrafted and designed by a person.

You say that as if that wasn't his intention from the start.

>implying he doesn't want to talk about muscular anime girls

I'm feeling mixed emotions right about now

God I wanna hot dog those abs

I'd rather fuck a slim guy than this

They all really become boring and irriating after 30 minutes.

You're a big gal

I bet you would faggot

>play game
>abs are painted on
What are some porn games with good abs?

>tfw no muscle gf

No homo tho user

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Life is pain

i know an artist who draws all his pic like that

Procedural generation can have its uses, but the recent boom of the Roguelite genre really shows how bland and samey environments can be without a loving touch.

A better example would be pointing to Nu Male's Sky, and how utterly ugly 99.99% of all of the procedural content beyond its environment in the game is, including the mismatched flora to the fauna.


also DELICIOUS ABS

depends on how its implemented but generally the lack of intentional design hinders the sense of logical progression and structure

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wonder what it feels like to fart with such force that your sweat gets blown off you

It is actually a great technology that is being misused. It has to evolve more.

Anyone got that princess bride pic with the guy saying something like "You fool! You've made the classic blunder: Never start a thread on Sup Forums with an image more interesting than the topic." I could never find it when I search.

they are good if you have competent programmers. Make artists create the assets and then the programmers will use them in an algorithm to procedural creation of environment.

But as you can see, competent programmers are very hard to find and very costly. Considering that videogame development is a shit job with shit pay, the good ones will never touch that field.

In contrast, you can hire a lot of artists with decent skill that can do the monkey work of creating assets and manually creating the environments. They are cheaper and they are easier to find because videogames are one of the few places where they can get a paycheck without begging for money in Patreon.

tl;dr: yes is good if you have competent programmers.

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>procedurally generated
>excuse to be lazy
You've never coded a day in your life have you? It may be shit to play but it's not a lazy slapjob.

I want to smell/kiss a sweaty fit girl!

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I think this got me into muscle girls, previously it was a huge turn off

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I always found them to be more of a turnoff because muscle girl shit tends to be pretty fem-dommey, (the worst fetish) but submusclesubmuscive? girls are nice.

>tfw no stronk gf

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>All those games in development that were banking on milking NMS's fanbase
kek

Get this faggot shit out of here.

I want to see dom a fit girl!

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nah, i'm not in the mood for comedy right now

>Not knowing archive.

In terms of content expansiveness, yes, it's a shortcut.

You can make something that generates as you go along and claim it's literally indefinite because it keeps making content for you. The degree of comparable effort to make an engine generate numerous areas or levels or other things in a game drops out exponentially when you have your initial generator made. If you handmade 20 levels, 200 weapons/armor/items, and 100 enemy types, versus making a tool which automatically makes levels, weapons/armor/items, and enemy types, you'll see the effort shift dramatically against handmaking them. Procedural generation is an easy shortcut for indefinite content and rewards less effort on the development team's part with higher results.

>Thinking domination/submission is all about physical strength
I feel real bad for your partners, user.

They're really dumb.

Intelligent level design is much more fun than random garbage.

Random generation adds replayability so your core game design should be based on that

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you mean like... tickling or some shit?

Still it's pretty funny to think about a 5'5 manlet bossing around a 6'2 amazon

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source?

That's not sweat. It's ass milk

I see this is the good taste thread.

Well, maybe, but the thing with SM is that the sub WANTS to submit. Think about this huge girl. She can boss anyone around, she can beat anyone up. People might even be afraid of her. It's pretty easy to see the appeal of giving up control for a few hours and being completely at someone else's mercy. On the other hand, she got that big on purpose, so she might love that feeling of power all the time.

Sometimes it can certainly be through physically overpowering the other person, but it's definitely not all or only about that. My last girlfriend was more bratty and ddlg, so her way of submitting was acting up in order to get punished sort of thing.

Video game

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The depressing part about this is that if procedurally based content is placed onto a handmade foundation, the games come out fantastically. Look at Mount and Blade for example. Solid foundation, solid continuous streams of randomized enemies, randomized allies, and other unknown variables, and we're left with this unending stream of conflicts we need to constantly be prepared for, but with focused measures so that those conflicts are something we actually know how to ready ourselves to deal with.

I feel like they're neat, but the next big step will be procedurally generated stories like Dwarf Fortress is trying to do.

What's it like having a girl obey and call you daddy?

God I want to bury my face in those abs.

I'm sure you could get one if you found a workout partner. You do exercise, right?

Post more cute muscle girls with large assets

Bonita

Aren't you not supposed to hit on gym rats?

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Pretty awesome, not gonna lie. But only if you're into that stuff. If you don't like domming, it would be an exercise in frustration as she kept trying to act up and you weren't into it.

Tfw buff fighting grills will never sit on your face

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>cowtits
Literal faggots

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>No giant soft tits resting implausibly on chisled pecs, abs, and delts

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True, but I think that an innate sense of exploration can make up for that so progression is maintained.

Muscles on women is fine, but poorly drawn hypermuscle bullshit is not. Acquire taste user.

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dis boii gets it

>feeder fetish
>gets more muscle/definition
Literally why

WAH

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>source for this never ever

do you have a death wish?

Yes but only from gigantic muscled asses

nvm im retarded the title and circle is right on it

Step it up

Yes

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How tight is her vagoo?

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Doomgrill a CUTE.

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Source

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Doomgirl is cute! CUTE!

>no strong gf whos bigger than you to pick you up and carry you to bed

I would be completely fine if doomguy turned out to be doomgirl

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