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    Oof. Time for me to dust off my computer science degree. How long you got? Commented 2 days ago
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    What Robotnik said. seed when related to randomization is very much a computer science term and predates video games as a whole. Commented 2 days ago
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    "Seeds [...] are basically identifiers for the world that's generated." -> No, they are not. They are literally the small bit of data from which the whole world is born. In other words: you seem to think that first 1. the world is generated, and then 2. it is assigned this little string as an identifier — but it is exactly the other way around: you get this little string and "sow" it into the world generator and a whole world "sprouts" from it. Hence the name "seed". (See below for an actual technical response.) Commented yesterday
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    Useful question from Stack Overflow: stackoverflow.com/questions/15388324/… Commented yesterday