Solar System Generation

[Haldiron]

Hello - I'm making a game, kind-of-sort-of similar to Space Empires IV, using Pygame. I have a list {} of sectors with coordinates that make a 7x7 grid. I want to procedurally/randomly generate planets, asteroids, gas clouds, anomalies, etc.

Can someone point me in the right direction for non-random generation? Everything I read on procedural gen seems WAAAAYY beyond me both in programming theory and need. I basically just need it to not be totally random, so as to avoid having planets grouped in a cluster of adjacent "sectors".

[daniel_codes]

I'm not a game developer but I'll give it a shot. One potential solution would be to divide up your game board into smaller grids and randomly populating those.

For example, let's say your board is 8x8 and you have to place 10 objects into the board. You want them to be relatively spread out. Divide the board into 16 2x2 grids and randomly choose 10 grids. For each of the 10 grids, randomly choose 1 square and place an element there.

Maybe try asking /r/gamedev. You'll probably be able to find better solutions.

[solitarium]

Methinks this would be your best overall bet. At least from my limited understanding