Heh. I agree, and I'm doing the same thing for my game. As for Perlin noise, check out Simplex noise. It's what Perlin designed AFTER Perlin noise. I use 4D Si

Heh. I agree, and I'm doing the same thing for my game. As for Perlin noise, check out Simplex noise. It's what Perlin designed AFTER Perlin noise. I use 4D Simplex fractals to create my game world which tiles seamlessly when scrolling up/down as well as left/right. And I'm filling the world with random-but-connected cities, factions etc. That's where interesting emergent gameplay comes from. BTW, I have a few writeups (quite technical) on the correct implementation of Simplex noise on spiralcode.wordpress.com