City of Cat

Controls:

W,A,S,D to move around

R to return to the generation screen

Welcome to Cat City!

A procedurally generated town inhabited only by stray cats. Can you discover the dark secret of what happened here? (You can't i'm afraid, no dark secrets have been implemented yet)

This tech demo was created by: Thomas Hsueh, George Karafotias & Oliver Withington

As part of 2021's Game AI Summer School

Goal: Procedurally generate towns and then populate them with lots of autonomous stray cats

Technology used: MAP Elites to generate the underlying structure

Wave Form Collapse to dress the buildings in aesthetically pleasing structures

Navmeshes and Finite State Machines for the stray cats