System and method for stochastically generating maps of places in a virtual space

A system configured to generating maps of places, the system comprising:

• one or more processors configured to execute computer program modules, the computer program modules comprising:
• an array generation module configured to stochastically generate arrays of tiles that form surfaces, wherein stochastically generating a given array of tiles includes stochastically assigning a cluster of tiles with a first primary type such that the shape of the cluster of first primary type tiles is stochastic;
• a smoothing module configured to smoothing the shapes of the clusters of first primary type tiles in the generated arrays of tiles;
• an area module configured to determine whether suitable areas exist within the clusters of first primary type tiles for placement of a feature, wherein such determinations are based on criteria for a suitable area;
• and
• a feature module configured such that responsive to a determination that there exists, within the cluster of first primary type tiles in the given array of tiles, a suitable area, the feature module stochastically defines a suitable area as the feature by assigning a secondary tile type to the tiles in the defined suitable area,
• wherein the computer program modules are configured such that responsive to a determination that no suitable area exists within the cluster of first primary type tiles in the given array of tiles, the given array of tiles is discarded.

A non-transient computer readable storage medium having stored thereon computer-readable instructions configured to cause one or more processors to execute a method of generating a map of a place, the method comprising:

• stochastically generating an array of tiles that form a surface, wherein stochastically generating the array of tiles includes stochastically assigning a cluster of tiles with a first primary type such that the shape of the cluster of first primary type tiles is stochastic;
• smoothing the shape of the cluster of first primary type tiles;
• determining whether there exists within the cluster of first primary type tiles a suitable area for placement of a feature, wherein the determination is based on criteria for a suitable area;
• responsive to determining that there exists within the cluster of first primary type tiles two or more suitable areas, stochastically defining a suitable area as the feature by assigning a secondary tile type to the tiles in the suitable area;
• and
• responsive to determining that no suitable area exists within the cluster of first primary type tiles, discarding the array of tiles.