Make something that makes something: Inside the Procedural Generation Jam

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Take a few hours off to play these games.
Play Secret Habitat, which dumps you onto a dreamy pastel island studded with nearly 100 art galleries, each of them filled with peculiar one-off paintings and accessed via stair ramps that look like buttresses or spiders' legs. "This process; indescribable, unstoppable," it said to me when I first loaded it up. What will it say to you?
Play Tiny Planets, and simulate whole worlds from their lurid oceans through to their stippled peaks, creating cities that ripple and spread like bacteria. Play Poliparena, "a deadly arena of octopuses armed with swords." Play Colt55: an endless, shifting terrain, a gun in your hand, and a mission: Go make friends with a horse.
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