{"id":40,"date":"2009-05-02T18:55:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-02T23:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.allegedlyinteresting.com\/2009\/05\/amalgam.html"},"modified":"2009-05-02T18:55:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-02T23:55:00","slug":"amalgam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allegedlyinteresting.com\/?p=40","title":{"rendered":"Amalgam"},"content":{"rendered":"

Shamus Young is an inspiration.
He is able to juggle a large amount of hobbies and responsibilities and makes it look easy. I have a lot of respect for the fact that he finds time to be a father, a husband, get his paid work done and to disport in the same number of hours that I achieve half of those things.<\/p>\n

His latest project, Procedural City is best described by outlining its three primary goals (as quoted from his introduction to the project<\/a>):<\/p>\n

1. The goal is to make a nighttime cityscape that is mostly made of lights and suggestions rather than real detail.<\/p>\n

2. The city will be entirely procedurally generated. That is, the program will contain no art assets. No textures. No models. Everything must be built from scratch at startup.<\/p>\n

3. I\u2019m budgeting a week of nights and weekends for the project. So, probably about 30 hours of time total.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The results are fairly astounding. I love procedural generation<\/a>. I’m not sure how I feel about the potential reduction in reliance on human artists, musicians or even level designers, but I guess thats the way things are going these days. Having said that, nothing procedurally created can really outshine the loving care that is put into a hand-crafted level, texture or piece of music.<\/p>\n

Check out Shamus’ latest video showing off the project.<\/p>\n

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Shamus has also created some other things which have really grabbed my attention.
He has been featured multiple times on one of my favourite podcasts, Fear the Boot<\/a> for his ability to run and document his D&D campaigns<\/a>. These are a really good read if you’re into D&D – they should provide you with some inspiration for your own.<\/p>\n

He has also authored one of the funniest web-comic series of all time, DM of the Rings<\/a> (DMotR).
If you have ever seen or read Lord of the Rings and have either played, or are simply interested in learning about D&D, do yourself a favour and read this webcomic. It has a lifespan, Shamus knew to stop it before it got old which means that it is at quite a readable length.<\/p>\n

Keep up the good work Shamus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Shamus Young is an inspiration.He is able to juggle a large amount of hobbies and responsibilities and makes it look easy. I have a lot of respect for the fact that he finds time to be a father, a husband, get his paid work done and to disport in the same number of hours that … <\/p>\n

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