Procedural Generation in Godot: Learn to Generate Enjoyable Content for Your Games

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C. PittProcedural Generation in Godothttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8795-8_6

6. Creating a Seeding System

Christopher Pitt¹  

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Durbanville, South Africa

 

Back in Chapter 2, we learned that randomization takes a couple forms in game development. The first and most common is randomization where we don’t explicitly control the seed used. That’s what we used to randomize the behavior of the nodes in that chapter.

The second form of randomization is where we know what the seed is, and we can control it to some extent. Minecraft is a great example of this, because each level starts with an input where you can specify a seed.

Seeding can be a bit confusing, but ...