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[JoshuaFH]

I formally and humbly request that you change your avatar Dasleah. It is horrifying, and I don't know what it is.

[Little]

I formally and humbly request that you change your avatar Dasleah. It is horrifying, and I don't know what it is.

Check out his thread. 

[Derakon]

A few minor changes here. I've added two new kinds of tunnel (a staircase and a sinusoidal wave) and reworked junctions so they're easier on the generator. I then chopped the tunnel length down a bunch, which has the effect of greatly increasing map density, and made this monster:

(Click for large full-size map)

[Captain Mayday]

I really really like the look of this. I'd be interested to see the following in it:

- Z levels. I'm picturing quick, or extended, slopes.
- It already appears that you've got the ability to have different parts have different widths, etc. Would be cool to continue this over Z levels.

[Derakon]

This is a side-on view, so I already have z-levels.

More seriously, while the program could be expanded to work in three dimensions, that's not really my goal, and displaying three-dimensional cave systems is not exactly straightforward.

Edit: that's not to say that three-dimensional caves generated by a similar algorithm wouldn't be cool. It's just that all of my code assumes only two dimensions (e.g. when inspecting the map for creating mazes, staircases, platforms, and the like) and it'd all need to be rewritten to take advantage of the third dimension. Not to mention that when you add the third dimension, it becomes possible (and even desirable) to have the map layer itself, with tunnels on top of other tunnels.

Maybe if I find myself with a surfeit of free time I'll see about making a modified version that does three dimensions. But I wouldn't hold my breath if I were you.

[Derakon]

Time for some scenery! Tunnels now are parts of larger zones which dictate which "flavors" they can use. At the moment I only have two zone types (jungle and hotzone) and three flavors. These images show what the tiles look like at in-game scale (50x50 pixels per tile):





And this is a downscaled map using the three:

(Click for full-size, which is still only 20% of the real full-size map)


I figure once I get all of the art done for the game, I'll make a nice big map and send it off to a printer to get a poster made.

[JoshuaFH]

I'm getting more and more excited about this Derakon! I want to be an Alpha tester when it finally reaches that stage!

[penguinofhonor]

Ooh so do I. This looks awesome.

[SolarShado]

very cool, i've never tried anything remotely like it myself. i've make a text based RPG, that's about it.

and plz add me to the alpha/beta testers list!

[Derakon]

I'm glad everyone's enthusiastic about this! It's a big help to my own enthusiasm.

Unfortunately, I'm a long, long way from anything playable yet. The maps are still very boring things -- no enemies, no items, no purpose, and of course, no interesting room designs. Still, progress is being made.

I spent the better part of the last week without Internet (if your aerial cable connection ever physically breaks, do yourself a favor and get your own cherrypicker, since Comcast apparently can't supply their own in a reasonable timeframe). I spent most of that time working on implementing the basic animations and physics needed for the player to be able to run around in the caves, while taking a short detour to add some very rudimentary support for background props.

The latter is demonstrated in this image:

There's lots of work to be done there, but I've made a start.

And the former is demonstrated in this 4MB animated GIF.

[Sowelu]

Oh my goodness, those trees are utterly gorgeous!  This looks incredible!  I'm getting the same feeling from these landscapes that I got from seeing Lemmings for the first time (that is a good thing).

[Okenido]

Impressive.

I look forward to this.

[Mondark]

I've been following this for a while, and I must say, I'm quite impressed!
The concept reminds me of Spelunky, in a way, but it looks cooler.

I really like how it places the platforms, quite clever.

[Org]

I must say, this is simply amazing.
Whenever you do make a game with this, I would like to try it.

[Derakon]

The trees were made with Gen3, a tree generator for Blender. I threw together a simple bark texture and used the same texture for the leaves that I'm using for the grass (which texture came from the Blender Materials Database).

Basically, any time I want to do something complicated, I look to see if someone else has done it before and released their work to the general public. Things go a lot more smoothly that way.