This is steering the thread off a little bit, but is still relevant to the title and you guys have got me inspire:
Could someone recommend some procgen ideas suitable for someone with basic programming experience?
I'd love to use this jam as an opportunity to learn something about procgen, but don't want to get bogged down in something out of my league and end up giving up. If you think it could develop into a useful thread for other beginners, I'll start a fresh one up
Let's start a thread, I think that's a great idea! Next year my aim is to improve the tutorials available to people and write some of our own. You might like this, a cave generator tutorial I wrote a while ago for another site:
https://gamedevelopment.tutsplus.com/tutorials/gen...
There's also this post I wrote recently, for entering PROCJAM with no coding at all! All these projects give you an opportunity to think about generative systems without writing code yet:
http://www.procjam.com/2016/10/31/5-ways-to-enter-...
Hope some of that helps :)
