EPC2018 | Wave Function Collapse in Bad North | Oskar Stalberg

The creator Oskar Stålberg has a great overview talk of Wave Function Collapse and how he applied it to his previous game Bad North - it’s absolutely worth a watch! [VIDEO]

Please note that this is an old demo that has since grown into a full-blown game: [LINK] (Says Windows-only, but has a working Beta for Mac) Here's a talk by Oskar on how generating such worlds work: [VIDEO]

And here's another, slightly more technical talk from him about the "wave function collapse" algorithm he uses for procedural generation in his games: [VIDEO]

Oskar Stålberg has famously used WFC in Bad North and Townscaper. Here's a nice presentation from him explaining it: [VIDEO]

Oskar Stålberg has some great talks on YouTube about how the systems in Bad North and Townscaper work. [VIDEO] [LINK] [LINK] [LINK]

Not sure what of this was actually used in townscaper, but someone in another discussion of the game (can't remember where unfortunately) referred to these two sources: - Oskar Stålberg's 2018 Talk "Wave Function Collapse in Bad North" ( [VIDEO] ) - Müller et al, 2006 - "Procedural Modeling of Buildings" ( [LINK] )

Its creator has a bunch of details on their Twitter ( [LINK] , although digging through long Twitter history is of course a pain) and given some talks: [VIDEO] [LINK]

I played around a lot with this library: [LINK] Fun stuff, but I struggled to get a lot of value out of using it for level gen. You get cool patterns, but levels need structure and intent to be interesting. Adding constraints to the algorithm becomes a big-oh nightmare and you end up with frequently unsolvable paths as the algorithm recurses. The game Bad North used it to good effect, so depending on the game it may be a very useful tool in the toolbelt. [VIDEO]