Procedural generation underlies the most popular game of all time (Minecraft) and is foundational for numerous other games of a similar type - Dwarf Fortress, et al.

And it's used to power effect where you might not expect it (Stardew Valley mines).

What procedural generation does NOT work at is generating "story elements" though perhaps even that can fall, Dwarf Fortress already does decently enough given that the player will fill in the blanks.

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optionalsquid 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> And it's used to power effect where you might not expect it (Stardew Valley mines).

Apparently Stardew Valley's mines are not procedurally generated, but rather hand-crafted. Per their recent 10 year anniversary video, the developer did try to implement procedural generation for the mines, but ended up scrapping it:

https://www.stardewvalley.net/stardew-valley-10-year-anniver...

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bombcar 5 hours ago | parent [-]

They're quasi-generated with random elements and fixed elements - similarly to early Diablo procedural generation.

	▲	xerox13ster 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		That’s not the same procedural generation as GPT or diffusion and you know it. It’s not even in the same ballpark as Elite, NMS, terraria, or Minecraft. The levels are all hand drawn, not generated by an algorithm, even if they’re shuffled. Eric Barone, the developer, has publicly said as much. Are you calling him a liar? It’s like the difference between sudoku/crossword and conways game of life

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morissette 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

And here I thought the most popular game of all time was Soccer or Super Mario Bros 3

	▲	bee_rider 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I think they meant videogame, ruling out soccer. It looks like the Super Mario Bros series has a good showing, but it is the first one. I bet 3 falls into an unlucky valley where the game-playing population was not quite as large as it is now, but it isn’t early enough to get the extreme nostalgia of the first one. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_video_gam... Of course this assumes sales=popularity, but the latter is too hard to measure.
	▲	6510 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Quality is the same thing as popularity. That is why mcdonalds has 12 Michelin stars.