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PCG, again

This week I got the walls around the rooms working, and I know what I’m going to do to build the corridors.

Unfortunately, it is much harder than I had hoped it would be. I originally assumed that all the hard stuff was over, but I have just one thing left, and that is the…

PCG Spatial Representation

This week I successfully wrote the phase two algorithm of PCG, which converts the gameplay graph into a spatial assortment of rooms with their respective room center and room sizes.

Gameplay Graph Implemented

I’ve successfully implemented the gameplay graph this week, which has been harder than I thought it would be but…

Procedural Content Generation

The next big thing I’m working on is the procedural generative nature of my game. Procedural Content Generation, or PCG, is a superset of algorithms that focus on creating content of some sort based on a specific number of parameters, as opposed to manually curating and…

Finally, Rooms

At last, after toiling away at my computer for many hours, I’ve finally evolved the gameplay to more than one room, with more than one enemy available to spawn in each room.

Now, there isn’t any procedural generation yet. It’s all still manually placed by yours truly, but…

Basic Shooter Updates

This week wasn’t as productive as I had hoped, but I believe I am on track to have this enemy functional by next week.

So I have finally decided on this design.

The “Basic Shooter”

So I’ve begun development on the shooter attack pattern enemy, which for now I’ll refer to as the basic shooter for the lack…

New Enemy Designs

Because this game takes on characteristics of dungeon crawlers, it will need to have somewhat a nice variety of enemy types. Since the art style of this game will be minimalist and geometric, I tried to design my enemies after simple shapes.