Posts from year 2010:
Unnecessary fun stuff Tags: Procedural generation, World generator back to work Tags: Procedural generation, World generator AARRGHH Amusing spam Tags: Other Be A Man – the story of World War Swing Show-off Tags: Games, No More Sweden, Other No More Finland For No More Sweden Tags: No More Sweden, Other Assigning regions gone wrong Tags: Procedural generation, World generator Working on cities Tags: Procedural generation, World generator Rainfall! Tags: Procedural generation, World generator Roads gone… Right! Tags: Procedural generation, World generator
Posted on 2010-08-05 00:18
I pondered a bit today about the way I want the possible game to handle the generated map. My current idea would be to have grid-based scrolling, so that you always see one frame, and the game ‘scrolls’ to a new area when you touch the borders. That way I can always load (and perhaps generate) new areas as required. However, there’s one problem: the maps are quite huge, and if I made every pixel represent an area (320×240), the game would get really big very fast. That wouldn’t be much of a problem otherwise, but I fear such huge worlds might get boring very fast – I think it might be better to go with smaller and tighter worlds, and have them to be full of stuff. Also, if every pixel was an area (or perhaps ‘room’ would be a better word), I probably should divide the world into regions, and the map would essentially consist of stuff in the current region. A region could be, say, 20×16 rooms in size. That’d make the map a bit easier to read.
Anyway, I quickly created some kinds of ‘visualizers’ just for fun, mainly inspired by the visualizers of Minecraft. They look quite horrible and are hard to read, so I guess I wont be using them anywhere.
Here’s my first test on displaying a region separately from the map. As you see, the height makes it really hard to read. I’m overall not sure how I should treat height, though – if the game is isometric/top-down, should the game just create walls to places where the height difference is high enough? Or should there be some elaborate path system that’d create meaningful areas and paths?
Here’s also the whole world visualized. It’s hard to read, but I think it has some kind of charm to it.
Posted on 2010-08-03 23:20
Started working on the world generator again. I recoded it from scratch, and currently it creates basic worlds in less than a second (compare to the older, which took over 15 seconds!) The screen size is a bit smaller, though, and there are no cities, roads or races yet, but I think I’ll be able to make this one much tighter than the earlier one. This time I think I have even a game idea to go with the generator! We’ll see.
Agersant at the TIGsource IRC channel suggested some changes to the colours, and they sure look a thousand times better! The map may be a bit hard to read, though- there are lots of shades of green!
Posted on 2010-08-01 00:33
Been hugely lazy and demotivated lately. Gotta get a game going!! And also give some use to that world generator I showed off earlier, it’d be a shame not to use it!
Posted on 2010-07-26 03:28
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Posted on 2010-07-11 22:02
No More Sweden was really intense and fun this time around! I’m currently in the house of one of the organizers, watching some football. Everything has gone fine this far and I’ve had a great time here. Hopefully I’ll get safely home, too!
Anyway, here’s the game I made for for the 48-hour game jam. My theme words were World War, Swing and Show and I made a really tiny game from the first idea I could get. Hopefully I’ll do something better next year. :) Daniel Remar’s Be A Man was one of the funniest games I’ve ever played, I hope he uploads it even though it may be hard to understand the inside-jokes.
World War Swing Show-off
Download the game
(It’s a two-player hotseat game, all the instructions are in the game file!)
Posted on 2010-07-08 19:06
I’ll be leaving tomorrow for No More Sweden, the most amazing tiny indie jam this summer. All the cool guys shall be there, or at least northern cool guys!
Posted on 2010-06-24 00:27
That'd take quite a few tribes!
I’m attempting to assign the areas on the world map for different ‘tribes’ (currently identified just by ID). I guess the assigner shouldn’t be as sensitive… (Each coloured area is supposed to be a region).
EDIT: Ok, got it to work better (even though it may not look like that). Next I have to get some rules onto what races can appear and where. When I tried random assigning, about 60% of the world belonged to the undead!
Better now!
Posted on 2010-06-22 22:57
The name generator sucks. SUCKS.
Creating identifying stuff for the cities has proved to be harder than I thought; there a couple weird things here and there that affect annoyingly the results. Also the world generation seems to take about 14-16 seconds now, and that’s not good enough. I have to look into this code carefully…
…However, everything is going quite much fine with this project. After the cities are in place, I think I’ll start working on the races that inhabit the world. I wonder if I should use the stupid old fantasy clichés or create my own creatures?
More stuff!
Posted on 2010-06-21 22:45
The deciduous forest is a bit hard to see in the first island, but it's there!
I’m having some real fun working on this! Now that i’ve added rainfall, the islands generation takes about 14 seconds, so I have to work on some performance next. After that, we’ll get cities with themes!
I seem to have a tendency to say ‘islands’ instead of ‘island’.
Posted on 2010-06-20 18:10
(Broken image)
Hoo boy, doing this was fun. Next I shall delve deeper to the cities, and give them names and ‘types’!