I’ve struggled with the concept of merging the roguelike turn-based system with a FPS. Having a turn based on when you fully leave a cell makes the monsters seem jumpy which doesn’t make for very nice gameplay. Because I believe turn-based systems are core to roguelikes and first person shooters can’t be turned based in a cohesive way, I’ve dropped the FPS perspective altogether and pulled the camera above the player. ...
Building games has become easier to do with the increase in quality of tooling and specialization software. The unfortunate side effect is the developer has to become more trained and specialized in a variety of facets in order to maintain competency in the field. Ergo building games is also harder. This year for the 7DRL competition I’ve been pretty lazy, which doesn’t help much to making deadlines. Setting aside playing games for making games I decided to finally venture into the competition whole heartedly. ...
For 7DRL this year I developed a new map generation algorithm called Pigeon Hole Stepping. Fill the map with walls This map generation algorithm relies on negative building techniques. This concept will make more sense as the later steps are explained. Dig Hallways Essentially, we can assume that hallways that are parallel to each other are at least the length of a single room and up to two rooms apart in distance. Because of this assumption, we can make a random walker that will move around with this restriction in mind until map is filled completely. ...
Randomly generated dungeons are a lot of fun to program, but sometimes they can be pretty difficult to originally wrap your head around. For this years 7DRL I added Automata Generated Caverns as one of the algorithms I wanted to figure out completely. You can read more specifically on the theory here.