Procedural generation has been in vogue recently, thanks to titles like Minecraft and Starfield, but few know it was also used in the earliest games.

Today we’ve got 3D graphics, asymmetrical co-op games, progressive multiplayer games, leaderboards, achievements, procedural level generation, and a whole mess of gameplay features.

This tech is essentially a procedural generation plugin for the Unreal and Unity game engines which allows developers to interactively and visually create "detailed and expansive" 3D worlds.

While procedural level generation has been around for decades, recent advances in machine learning to generate game content (usually levels) are different because they don’t use a human-defined ...

As part of a study to improve procedural level generation in games, three researchers have trained an artificial intelligence to make playable maps for classic Doom. We’re pretty sure this is ...

The Wayward Realms developer Victor Villarreal claims Starfield has damaged the reputation of Procedural Generation used in games like Daggerfall.

Not only that, but according to the paper this procedural generation method also includes attempts at predicting player paths and ensuring playability, so an "impossible level" can't truly be created.