He Won't Stop Building a Map to an Imaginary Place (opens in new tab)

People Make Games: (47:04). A fascinating look at a man's lifelong project of constructing a map to an imaginary place, with its own evolving lore, through a rule-based, manual process, where a deck of cards provides the randomness. Analog procedural map generation! "I do everything as though I'm gonna live forever. And that's probably not gonna happen, but it's a nice approach."I really like computer games that use procedural generation, Dwarf Fortress being the classic example that simulate...