KalechippsDev | Creating Dungeons for my Dream Indie Game | Indie Game Devlog #1 Procedural Generation (a journey) @KalechippsDev | Uploaded June 2020 | Updated October 2024, 3 hours ago.
Hi, y'all! Welcome to the second devlog for my indie game, which is going to be a combination of a farming simulator and a roguelike dungeon crawler. This past week, I took a deep dive into procedural level generation, which was a task and a half.
Thank you for the outpouring of support on the last devlog. It really means so much to me that people are engaging with my game, and I'm excited that people seem to like it! I kicked it up a notch this week with the editing for this devlog, so this is a little later than I would like, but hopefully, it was entertaining. Not sure if I'll be able to keep this style up (it took a loooong time) but let me know what you think of it.
As promised, why circular rooms didn't work for me: "Circles don’t fit well on rectangular screens. So you can only really see a horizontal slice of the room at a time unless the rooms are very small, which isn’t really desirable either. As an extension of this, the rectangular camera bleeds into other rooms very easily, and there’s not a great way to make a rectangular camera bounding box over a circular room with other circles in close proximity. Moreover, perfectly circular rooms just feel a little too pristine for a dungeon, which is interesting because perfect rectangles don’t really. Maybe this is the result of there being a larger cognitive burden on players to assimilate the idea of circular rooms, which are much less common than rectangular rooms, so the circles stand out as foreign."
Music is from: LAKEY INSPIRED - Better Days (youtube.com/watch?v=RXLzvo6kvVQ)
Hi, y'all! Welcome to the second devlog for my indie game, which is going to be a combination of a farming simulator and a roguelike dungeon crawler. This past week, I took a deep dive into procedural level generation, which was a task and a half.
Thank you for the outpouring of support on the last devlog. It really means so much to me that people are engaging with my game, and I'm excited that people seem to like it! I kicked it up a notch this week with the editing for this devlog, so this is a little later than I would like, but hopefully, it was entertaining. Not sure if I'll be able to keep this style up (it took a loooong time) but let me know what you think of it.
As promised, why circular rooms didn't work for me: "Circles don’t fit well on rectangular screens. So you can only really see a horizontal slice of the room at a time unless the rooms are very small, which isn’t really desirable either. As an extension of this, the rectangular camera bleeds into other rooms very easily, and there’s not a great way to make a rectangular camera bounding box over a circular room with other circles in close proximity. Moreover, perfectly circular rooms just feel a little too pristine for a dungeon, which is interesting because perfect rectangles don’t really. Maybe this is the result of there being a larger cognitive burden on players to assimilate the idea of circular rooms, which are much less common than rectangular rooms, so the circles stand out as foreign."
Music is from: LAKEY INSPIRED - Better Days (youtube.com/watch?v=RXLzvo6kvVQ)
![Making a [Story] Game in 48 HOURS! | GMTK Game Jam 2020](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/HgCpqPQhMJI/hqdefault.jpg "Making a [Story] Game in 48 HOURS! | GMTK Game Jam 2020
Hey yall! Sorry to put U.I.G. devlogs on hold for a week, but big moves were being for the GMTK Game Jam 2020! This is the Making Of: Mission Control, my submission to the GMTK Game Jam this year—and my second game jam ever, i.e. making a game in 48 hours :P
Play Mission Control here: https://kalechipps.itch.io/mission-control
For this jam, I wanted to a) do something out of my comfort zone and b) develop a tool that I could use in U.I.G. One of the tools thats central to my final vision for the project is a dialogue system, so I ran with that idea and created a narrative game for this jam, a kind of interactive fiction.
Its a story about a mission control office and its graveyard shift watchman, Colt. Things are put into perspective when he receives a distress call from a young pilot in crisis. I hope youll check out the game, and I hope you enjoyed learning about the process of making it. 2020 is kind of a crazy year... hope this gives you some respite.
Music is from: LAKEY INSPIRED - Better Days (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9S4RCAbebxA)
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