Eyeo 2014 - Darius Kazemi

Darius Kazemi, Internet Person, gave this presentation last year about his bots and creative process. He talks about exploring black boxes, discussing how code is weird, the problem with elegance, how to make less boring procedural generation, Spelunky, the importance of context,

Context, in particular, is an important idea. Darius discusses how a generator goes from flat and boring to interesting by adding context to templates and random input.

Context is a succinct way to discuss something I’ve been dancing around here: that the generator is much stronger when there’s an idea behind it. That’s why I’ve talked about controlled chaos and the need for structure: these are both ways to think about giving more context to the things you are generating.