Noor Shaker, Julian Togelius, and Mark J. Nelson
| Preface | ||
| 1 | Introduction | Julian Togelius, Noor Shaker, Mark J. Nelson |
| 2 | The search-based approach | Julian Togelius and Noor Shaker |
| 3 | Constructive generation methods for dungeons and levels | Noor Shaker, Antonios Liapis, Julian Togelius, Ricardo Lopes and Rafael Bidarra |
| 4 | Fractals, noise and agents with applications to landscapes and textures | Noor Shaker, Julian Togelius and Mark J. Nelson |
| 5 | Grammars and L-systems with applications to vegetation and levels | Julian Togelius, Noor Shaker and Joris Dormans |
| 6 | Rules and mechanics | Mark J. Nelson, Julian Togelius, Cameron Browne and Michael Cook |
| 7 | Planning with applications to quests and story | Yun-Gyung Cheong, Mark O. Riedl, Byung-Chull Bae and Mark J. Nelson |
| 8 | ASP with applications to mazes and levels | Mark J. Nelson and Adam M. Smith |
| 9 | Representations for search-based methods | Dan Ashlock, Sebastian Risi and Julian Togelius |
| 10 | The experience-driven perspective | Noor Shaker, Julian Togelius and Georgios N. Yannakakis |
| 11 | Mixed-initiative content creation | Antonios Liapis, Gillian Smith, and Noor Shaker |
| 12 | Evaluating content generators | Noor Shaker, Gillian Smith and Georgios N. Yannakakis |
| A | Game-designer interviews | Andrew Doull, Ed Key, Michael Toy, Richard Evans, and Tarn Adams |
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Initial drafts of the chapters were posted online on this website in 2013, as they were written. They went through a number of revisions in 2013–2016; the PDFs above are the final authors' versions as of 2016. This version was published in essentially the same form (apart from some publisher branding) by Springer in 2016. Our publication agreement allowed us to keep the author-version PDFs online.
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BibTeX:
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author={Shaker, Noor and Togelius, Julian and Nelson, Mark J.},
title={Procedural Content Generation in Games: A Textbook and an Overview of Current Research},
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