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by wincy 480 days ago
Dead Cells uses procedural generation but does it in bespoke chunks, so while a level is different it’ll have chunks that are determined fun and then glued together by the procedural algorithm.
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Yes, all of the games with the best procedural generation achieve it by heavily leveraging handcrafted pieces, but that's an indictment of procedural generation, not an endorsement.
Yes. This is the standard approach going back at least as far as the first Diablo: https://www.boristhebrave.com/2019/07/14/dungeon-generation-...