The simple efficacy of creating scenarios with functional randomness to keep players engaged while still maintain the level of detail, character and complexity is a major asset in the Mage Drops toolshed. Procedurally generated level design is something Orchid of Redemption has dabbled with numerous times in the past in many different game prototypes. Early puzzle design toyed with the idea of vanishing platforms, level elements that would expand and contact, or known elements that would behave differently while in World 6. The 3 switches ensure we always have an interesting journey from the start to the end of any given level.įrom the outset Trickster World was always intended to live up to its name and present wild and unpredictable challenges to the player. These switches are also randomly placed – each room has one or more hand-placed 'potential switch positions' and when the level starts we randomly choose 3 of these. Each level has 3 switches that need to be found and triggered to open the exit. In our case the level's start and end rooms are always placed in the same pre-set position on the floorplan (start room in bottom left corner, end room in top right).
MAGE DROPS STEAM GENERATOR
The procedural generator then randomly picks rooms from the pool (of however many rooms we made, at present we have 18) and places them into our floorplan and randomly selects a rotation (0, 90, 180 or -90) and randomly mirrors the room (ie sets it to X scale of -1). The rooms themselves are hand-made, each with different layouts and interactive elements. We have a floor plan of 4x4 or however many we want (our harder levels have larger floorplans). Trickster World’s procedurally generated level design is loosely based off of Spelunky 's proc gen structure, described in Derek Yu's Spelunky book. Set in a shifting dimension, players will also come face to face with the first antagonist available in Early Access.Ĭhaos, Adaption and Procedurally Generated Level Design
World 6: Trickster World brings a realm of chaos to contrast the otherwise structured courses of Mage Drops.
MAGE DROPS STEAM UPDATE
This week we’re diving a little deeper into the level design and thematic structure for the upcoming World 6: Trickster World update which will be going live for Mage Drops in Early Access on Steam and Itch on August 31. Welcome to this week’s Orchid of Redemption devlog, if you haven’t already, be sure to check out our insight into difficulty tuning in The Road to Easy Mode.
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