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Jerry's Map: 60-Year Procedural City Built by Hand With a Deck of Cards

By Meridian48 News Desk · Summarised from DEV Community ·

Jerry Gretzinger began drawing an imaginary city map in 1963, now spanning over 4,000 panels. A handmade deck of ~100 cards dictates each action, making it a manual procedural generation system. The project mirrors software principles like stable coordinates and mutable content, running longer than most modern programs.

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A fascinating analog counterpart to procedural generation in games, but more a curiosity than a breakthrough for developers.
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