"This is represented visually through four rings orbiting a central brain, each created procedurally as an organically evolving form, and sonically through a responsive soundscape," explains Murray-Browne.
The game is procedurally generated, a roguelike (or, in its makers' words, "rogue-lite"), so there's no easily mapped "right" path to take.
We want to ascend so badly; to procedurally generate an escape.
"The interesting thing about this object is that its shape was discovered procedurally by an artificial intelligence," Pudzens explains.
Showing students explicitly how you, as a biologist, think procedurally in solving a problem how you start, how you decide what to do first and then next, how you check your work, how you know when you are done is one example of metacognitive modeling.
Players control BUD (Botanical Utility Droid), a procedurally animated robot who's on a mission to save his home.
So original it spawned a genre, Rogue is a procedurally generated dungeon crawler where the difficulty – in the sense of what it chooses to throw at you – is a huge part of the appeal.
When players pass through, they materialise in a procedurally generated landscape, complete with its own enemies and a quest objective - perhaps a castle, village or dungeon complex.
