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Procedural Content Generation for Unity Game Development

By : Ryan Watkins
Book Image

Procedural Content Generation for Unity Game Development

By: Ryan Watkins

Overview of this book

Procedural Content Generation is a process by which game content is developed using computer algorithms, rather than through the manual efforts of game developers. This book teaches readers how to develop algorithms for procedural generation that they can use in their own games. These concepts are put into practice using C# and Unity is used as the game development engine. This book provides the fundamentals of learning and continued learning using PCG. You'll discover the theory of PCG and the mighty Pseudo Random Number Generator. Random numbers such as die rolls and card drafting provide the chance factor that makes games fun and supplies spontaneity. This book also takes you through the full development of a 2D game. Starting with level generation, you'll learn how PCG can make the game environment for you. You'll move into item generation and learn the different techniques to procedurally create game items. Thereafter, you'll be guided through the more abstract PCG areas such as scaling difficulty to the player and even generating music! The book helps you set up systems within your games where algorithms create computationally generated levels, art assets, quests, stories, characters, and weapons; these can substantially reduce the burden of manually creating every aspect of the game. Finally, you'll get to try out your new PCG skills on 3D terrain generation.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Procedural Content Generation for Unity Game Development
Credits
Disclaimer
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Generating items in the dungeon


Usually in RPG games, the player will acquire and carry items that add some status boosting effects. The player can have weapons to increase their damage or armor to increase their defense. We are going to add some armor items that will power up our player.

The armor items will run on a slightly more complicated system than the health items and will require their own class. We will also need a way to deliver the items to the player. We want to be a little more interesting than just littering the dungeon floor with items, so we will create a chest that will randomly spawn items.

The Chest prefab

Let's start with the Chest prefab. The Chest prefab will be a lot like the Wall prefab, in that the Chest prefab will also spawn items upon iteration. We will begin by building the prefab.

This chapter includes some additional art assets that can be imported for the Chest prefab and armor items. You are welcome to take this opportunity to make your own art for this part...