a bit about procgen

slides/content/parameter.tex

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 	\begin{frame}
 	\titlepage
+			\cite{ce810}
 	\end{frame}
 
 	\section{Intro}
 	\begin{frame}{Design Spaces}
+		
 		\begin{itemize}
 			\item In this morning's session we talked about \keyterm{Game Parameters}
 			\item These are properties which help to define the game
@@ -99,6 +101,7 @@
 			\item Amount of damage
 			\item Ship speed
 			\item Ship turn rate
+			\item Bullet cost
 		\end{itemize}
 	\end{frame}
 	
@@ -116,9 +119,15 @@
 		\end{itemize}
 	\end{frame}
 
+	\begin{frame}{Metrics}
+		\begin{block}{Exercise}
+			Create a version of asteroids that disadvantages the rotate and shoot player over the other agents.
+		\end{block}
+	\end{frame}
+
 	\begin{frame}[allowframebreaks]
 		\frametitle{References}
-		\bibliographystyle{plain}
+		\bibliographystyle{abbrv}
 		\bibliography{shared/references.bib}
 		
 	\end{frame}

slides/content/procgen.tex

@@ -7,8 +7,61 @@
 	\titlepage
 	\end{frame}
 
+	\begin{frame}
+	\frametitle{History of Procedural Generation}
+	\begin{itemize}
+		\item Procedural Generation used to be used due to space constraints
+		\item Nowadays it tends to be to provide more content.
+		\item One of the most common uses for procedural generation is levels
+	\end{itemize}
+	\end{frame}
+
 	\section{Level Generation}
 	% level generation
+	
+	\begin{frame}
+		\frametitle{Examples: Rogue}
+		\begin{itemize}
+			\item Spawned in entire genre based on procedural generation.
+			\item Randomly generated dungeons
+		\end{itemize}
+	
+		\begin{center}
+		\includegraphics[width=0.75\linewidth]{rogue}
+		\end{center}
+	\end{frame}
+
+	\begin{frame}
+		\frametitle{Activity}
+		
+		\begin{block}{Question}
+			What methods are commonly used for generating levels?
+		\end{block}
+	
+		\pause
+		\begin{itemize}
+			\item Binary Space Partitioning
+			\item Random walks
+			\item Cellular Automata
+			\item Answer Set Programming
+			\item Noise-based
+			\item Grid Based
+		\end{itemize}
+	\end{frame}
+
+\begin{frame}[fragile]{Cellular Automata}
+
+\begin{minted}[breaklines]{python}
+for tile in grid:
+	neighbors = get_alive_neighbours(tile)
+	grid[tile] = rule(neighbours)
+\end{minted}
+		
+\end{frame}
+
+
+		
+	
 	\section{Assets}
 	% music, units, etc...
 	\section{Full Games}

slides/shared/references.bib

@@ -5,4 +5,10 @@
   year={2015}
 }
 
-
+@unpublished{ce810,
+	author={Perez, Diego and Lucas, Simon and Liu, Jialin},
+	title={Lecture Slides for CE810},
+	school={University of Essex},
+	year={2015-2017},
+	addendum={Lecture notes from previous years}
+}