Some of the biggest games now in development have begun embracing procedural generation. Last month’s E3 played host to Frontier’s space sim Elite: Dangerous and Hello Games’ No Man’s Sky, surprising ...

Take a few hours off to play these games. Play Secret Habitat, which dumps you onto a dreamy pastel island studded with nearly 100 art galleries, each of them filled with peculiar one-off paintings ...

Of all the trends that have swept the gaming space in the last decade or so, few have the staying power of procedural generation, which is writing a system of rules for creating content and letting a ...