Balance Fantasy Prototyping Terrain 
Radiator Blog
AUGUST 12, 2022
I liked the idea of climbing / descending a big weird tree, and building it in Quake would be a big challenge, so that's what I prototyped first. This early prototype felt weird to play, because the player could just run around the big open landscape and lead monsters on a big chase.
Radiator Blog
JULY 6, 2021
Naked simulated AI people ("peeps") arrive and flow across the terrain. My first prototype were sim-heavy, based on basic cellular automata , a technique popularized by Conway's Game of Life (1970) where cells (or anything, really) live or die based on crowding, However this felt too fiddly, with small shapes that changed too quickly.
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