Mark Johnson - Generating Riddles for a Generated World

This talk will examine how riddles that are meaningful, obscure, and solvable, are procedurally generated in Ultima Ratio Regum. I believe this to be a first in roguelikes and in the talk I'm going to outline how the game a) procedurally generates its main categories of cryptic riddles, b) ensures that there is enough information for the player to decipher them, and c) generates and stores unique custom triggers through which they can actually be solved by performing each procedurally generated solution, and d) checks that there are enough ways to figure out the answer to a riddle, i.e. that the riddle is not unusually difficult or the riddle's key components are too rare or hard to find.

[@artobe4258]

Really good explanations, thank you Mark.

[@conrichdev]

This is awesome!

[@Galenus0]

Really nice :)

[@Mrjacharles]

Some bits look prettier than others. I mean I like 23:17 but that weird code map is a bit much ... D: