Algorithms for procedural content generation are widely used in the gaming industry, aiming to increase the product’s lifespan and provide a better user experience. However, procedurally generating enemies is not as common. ...

In many instances, digital games are considered to be ideal sandboxes for exploring various facets of programming, such as artificial intelligence and procedural generation. Following this idea, this work proposes – ...

Educational digital games have a large area of research that comes with the years throughout the international scene. This fact has been due to the potential that the games have of fun, immersion and stimulation to ...

The game industry has been experiencing a consistent increase in production costs of games lately. Part of this increase refers to the current trend of having bigger, more interactive and replayable environments. This trend ...

This Master s thesis proposes a non-assisted procedural method for 3D canyons scenes generation based on techniques of computer graphics, computer vision and graph search algorithm. In order to define all the features ...

In game development area, most of the time is spent on content creation (terrain, vegetation, paths, cities). In this way, many methods for automatic generation of content are designed to facilitate and accelerate the ...

Although a thoroughly researched topic, terrain rendering still presents challenges. For instance, many applications rely on accurate visualization of highly detailed and vast terrain, requiring the efficient use of both ...