I am a CTO at a startup company called Namaste Entertainment, where we are working on an AI driven, user generated online story world toolset called StoryBricks. While I am a programmer by trade, I often spend most of my time thinking of game design, psychology, animation and aesthetics. So you can expect a degree of diversity in my blog posts.

The future is procedural

Phil Carlisle 1:20 pm on March 20, 2011 Counting comments...

If you follow AAA development you might have seen a couple of interesting things happening recently. The first is that budgets have been growing increasingly bigger, the second is that the play times for games has been getting shorter, only recently GDC 2010 presentation by Epic give me hope that at least some people in the industry are thinking similarly.

The future is procedural because we can’t afford it not to be. So best brush of your copy of “Texturing and Modelling: A procedural approach”, break out your best perlin noise generator, your best random number generator and get with the in-crowd! Go procedural!

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