The first time I witnessed a procedural storytelling system create something genuinely surprising, I was playing a heavily modded session of Dwarf Fortress. A dwarf named Urist became possessed, crafted…
The first time a truly random event caught me off guard in a game, I was playing Dwarf Fortress about a decade ago. My carefully planned fortress was humming along…
I’ve lost count of how many randomly generated game maps I’ve seen that technically work but feel completely soulless. You know the type dungeons where rooms connect in ways that…
There’s a particular kind of dread that sets in when you’re replaying a puzzle game you loved years ago. You remember the solutions. That brilliant “aha!” moment when you figured…
I still remember the first time I noticed something was off about a character climbing stairs in an older game. Their feet would hover slightly above each step, moving through…
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