Jason Grinblat - Procedural History in Caves of Qud

Jason Grinblat talks about procedural history generation in Caves of Qud.
This video is from the 2017 Roguelike Celebration: roguelike.club/event2017.html

[@destraw6221]

17:35 Dog lover engraves battleaxe with scene of dogs being allowed on the furniture

[@dantescanline]

devs please add "on couch at night" and under the kitchen table as locations in qud and remove vacuum cleaner weapons thx

[@AAmoroso]

@@dantescanline "mick maus" -- is that a New Girl reference?

[@DobinSergei]

To make it simple, history generation in CoQ is like this. Every time you start new game, RNG seed generates new set of 5 Sultans, which names would be mentioned in description of some objects in the world. 🎉 Besides we have a static worldmap with static cities, and procedural generated dungeons.

[@robinhorneman2245]

Love procedurally generated stuff and this was super interesting to learn about.

[@wmdragonj]

I once found a fresh water weep in a dungeon that the Elder told me about... I then got cocky and died in the next dungeon.

[@CC-fi3pp]

I'm sold !!!

[@GeoffreyBronson]

Incredible.

[@MrRobsn89]

Is this game available in german ?

[@count-robo]

this game

[@Verilee1970]

This is one of my favorite roguelikes. However, the procedurally generated lore feels like MadLibs to me and often just sounds like nonsense.

[@jth4242]

So what do you like, especially when compared to other roguelikes?

[@JackMott]

thats how a lot of real life religious texts feel too though

[@milkjug4237]

@@jth4242 Everything else said in the video, probably. Water is a currency so trading stuff almost always matter. A bunch of factions that fight and have different relations. The ability to sell secrets as information so exploration gets more rewards. And also timeclones.

[@SmokeDankTreeDaily]

@@JackMott so true

[@skinblanketed]

In a post-apocalyptic world full of genetic and cybernetic "mishaps," the gradual devolution of information and rhetoric into a nonsensical hodge podge sorta makes sense, though.

[@user-yi8ul7ur5i]

God-game clap clap clap

[@zetronman]

game made by bill hicks??

[@elahem6940]

He does look strikingly Hicksian with that hair

[@AAmoroso]

yea, in this incarnation he chilled out and decided to just make games

[@DobinSergei]

10:20 "Baboonsboon"! 👌

[@wesleywilliams1156]

Dude coding that must have been a monster.

[@bombidil3]

Hey, hey, people.

[@brianmaney1973]

What a disjointed, uninspired and visually ugly game... I'd play Ultima III on my C64 emulator if I wanted something this primitive.

[@Kvalln]

Do you even pay attention to anything about the games you play

[@loudgaydollars923]

lmao it looks amazing

[@EHEHEHEOIL]

brainlet detected

[@Calfmax]

I'm not sure if your joking...

[@superresistant0]

Yeah it's like books, I don't read coz bad graphics.