[Monthly Challenge #2 - Jan, 2016] - Procedural Castle
Ok guys, here we go with round two of the r/proceduralgeneration monthly challenge. The votes are in and the winning challenge by a decent margin is 'Procedural Castle'. An Idea I suggested based on the post by u/UltimaRatioRegumRL that details his work here
Obviously this month is a little different, because hereafter we will have the 'winner' of the previous months challenge determining what we will be attempting to create. And so, before we get to the guts of this months challenge, I'd like you to all vote for the winner of last months challenge.
Challenge #1, Procedural Pirate Map
Final Submissions
| Description | User | Final Submission Post |
|---|---|---|
| PirateMap in Java | u/kosua20 | link |
| Procedural Pirate Map in C | u/BreezeNox | link |
| PCG Pirate Map in Java | u/Bergasms | link |
| Pirate map using CA | u/drake7707 | link |
| Cartoony Pirate Maps | u/FogleMonster | link |
| Procedural Pirate Map - Scallywag! | u/wlievens | link |
| Pirate Map with 2D tiles and basic decription | u/datta_sid | link |
| Pirate treasure maps in Javascript/HTML5 | u/green_meklar | link |
PLEASE VOTE HERE VOTING IS OVER
Congratulations to u/BreezeNox
Challenge Brief: Design a program that procedurally generates a castle. The castle can be based on any existing type of castle design, or can be a fantasy/sci-fi castle.
Examples (both of coded castles and real ones)
- top down ANSI map
- Dwarf fortress
- Final Fantasy
- Terraria
- Minecraft
- Dover Castle
- Matsumoto castle
- Derawar fort
This is to give you an idea of the different ways you could represent your castle, and also the different styles of castle that exist around the world.
Mandatory Items
- At least one major and on minor structure (Could be one tower and one drawbridge, one tenshu and one stable, etc).
- Look suitably castle like (Defensible, able to house an army, etc).
Features to consider
- A strong, central keep.
- A moat.
- A curtain wall.
- Layers of defence.
- Utility buildings, a stable, a blacksmith, etc.
- An Internal map as well as an external one.
- A Castle town.
- Heraldry (banners, flags, fresco's).
- A list of forces the castle can support, armaments, etc.
- Link to your source code (In the event of a tie breaker in voting, this would count in your favour).
You are free to represent your castle in your own way. It can be a top down map, a side on map, an isometric map, a 3D map. You could modify the minecraft source code to generate one for you. It could even be a stylized, 16th century map
That's it for now. Please let me know of anything you think I've missed out. The due date for this challenge is Thursday, Feb 11th. I am intending that challenges should be released on the Friday so you have the weekend to make a start :)
Also, feel free to share, shout out and link this post so we get more people participating and voting.
Works in Progress
- wlievens
- BreezeNox
- self_me
- drake7707
- Anyny0
- MrEmile finished?
- ArdorDeosis
- zapetch
- kosua20
- moosekk
- starbeamrainbowlabs
- green_meklar
- slashie_
Extra stuff
- Check out this great example provided by smcameron
- datta_sid - research
Announcement
In order to not spam the subreddit, when you are finished for the month and want to make a submission for the purpose of judging, please leave a fresh comment in here with a link to some example images, a title for your project, and a link to the source if you have it. If you would like to make an additional post to the reddit going into more detail and expanding on things then by all means do this :) Also chuck in a mention to me (/u/Bergasms) so i get pinged!
Posted Jan 7, 2016, 11:16 PM UTC · edited