This week I focused almost entirely on the idea that, on a granular level, each room in every level can be the vessel of the procedural generated story. On that note, I work specifically on tuning up each room's layout to give the Koros Forest level more varied rooms and shape. So the first thing that has changed was fix of the "Super Blob" that plagued the old level generation code.
On the left is an old example of the level generation script. As you can see, rooms are always connected based on if they border other rooms. On paper, this seemed like a fine concept but in practice, many levels generated created cluster of rooms that were all interconnected, as seen on the left image above. This created a severe lack of definition and I feel was a detriment to the story when generated. So this led me to the fix above on the right. Now, rooms may border each other but do not have to be connected with one another. This created a more maze-like feel and removed the problem of the "Super Blob" cluster of rooms.
As a side effect of this new level generation script I also worked on making rooms feel more unique. Before I was limited in what I could do since every room layout had to accommodate the possibility of being connected on all sides. This led to very cookie cutter rooms of a uniform shape. With this new update I could now design unique rooms without having to worry about that.
Above is an image of one of the new rooms, in which there are around 30 now as of now. Hopefully these new layouts will create a more immersive feeling while in the level as well as making it easier to tell story using them.
That's it for this week! I will continue to polish up these new rooms!
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