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Procedural generation

Meaning in game development, with examples

nounCommon term

In game development, procedural generation means: Creating game content such as maps, dungeons, terrain or loot automatically with algorithms and rules, instead of building every piece by hand.

In Turkish: prosedürel üretim, prosedürel içerik üretimi, yordamsal üretim

How it is used

Common in roguelikes and survival games, where every run is different; often shortened to procgen. A seed value lets the same world be generated again. Designers mix procedural generation with handmade pieces so the content does not feel random and empty.

Example sentences

  1. The dungeons use procedural generation, but every boss room is handmade.

  2. Because of procedural generation, QA needs the seed to reproduce a broken map.

Common collocations

  • procedurally generated
  • random seed
  • procgen
  • generate levels
  • open worldA large game world that players can explore freely and in almost any order, instead of moving through a fixed series of levels.
  • level designThe work of creating the spaces a game takes place in, such as maps, missions and stages, and deciding where players go, what they meet and how hard it is.
  • steps to reproduceThe exact list of actions in a bug report that someone else can follow to make the same bug happen again, so developers can see it and fix it.

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