PGDmC - Duke of Dragonfear: Deathland

[Ingemar]

I had problems with the dungeon generator; it was harder than I suspected.

Map generation is sensitive; you can make great maps with a few lines of code, but it has to be the right lines. I made one once, based on a few random rectangles and corridors between them. I didn't care if a corridor crossed over another room, and rooms could overlap. It was that simple and it never created a bad level.

You obviously create visible walls, but if you do that as post-processing, simply detecting edges, then it shouldn't be hard. But you are making things a bit trickier wih pseudo-3D effects. You can't have too narrow corridors, right?

[Ñuño Martínez]

Map generation is sensitive; you can make great maps with a few lines of code, but it has to be the right lines. I made one once, based on a few random rectangles and corridors between them. I didn't care if a corridor crossed over another room, and rooms could overlap. It was that simple and it never created a bad level.

Actually I wrote a similar algorithm on MSX some time ago, but I decided to use a different one here. BTW, I think I'll rewrite the map-making algorithm for the final version, after the contest. I don't know what algorithm to use.

Oh, and now the game engine is almost finished! Here you have: Zombies!


After this shot I added skeletons, similar to the ones from the classic "Jason and the Argonauts" film. Zombies are easy to fight but skeletons are harder.

[Traveler]

Are you going to implement some form of shadows? (simplistic, like circular) Perhaps it's different when you play it, but right now it looks a bit awkward.

[Ñuño Martínez]

Yes, I know. It's like they're floating or something. Shadows are in my TODO list.

I did a test when I implemented the player but I didn't like it. Next step is to add a (fake) runtime lighting to create an atmosphere (there are a lot of light). Then I'll try some different shadows (solid, translucent, alpha-channel, circle, sprite, ...) and select one of them.

[Ingemar]

Yes, I know. It's like they're floating or something. Shadows are in my TODO list.

Mine too. Shadows are important, I certainly will add it some time, but not likely in the two days left. It is not very hard to create shadows, but to create good-looking and still fast shadows, that is a lot harder. Pushing myself into desperate speed optimizations in the last minute is not a good idea.

[paul_nicholls]

cool...zombies

fun!

cheers,
Paul

[Ñuño Martínez]

Uploading my entry just now. It's too late here in Spain (1:15 a.m. Monday 18th) and I must get up early today to go work so I'll comment tomorrow.

"God night and good luck."