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The principles and history of procedural generation, where rules and random numbers rather than people build game maps and items, told through Rogue, Elite, Minecraft, No Man's Sky and the Wave Function Collapse algorithm.
How do AAA and indie games differ? We compare team size, funding, creative approach, and distribution, plus indie hits and the AA games in between.
How a one-line idea becomes a real game, step by step: planning, prototyping, production, alpha and beta testing, release review, and post-launch updates.
How game engines emerged and evolved, from id Tech behind Doom and Quake to Unreal Engine, Unity and open-source Godot, with key dates along the way.
From bedroom coders and shareware to Steam, console stores, and crowdfunding: a history of indie games and what successful indie hits have in common.