Based on viewer Risa’s mention, Eric decided to revisit two survival games: Don’t Starve and Sir, You Are Being Hunted from his past to see if they might provide a little inspiration. The first, Don’t Starve, is a stylish survival game where you have to wander a procedurally generated world to find grass, rocks, and […]
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In this episode of Blue Tengu’s Game Development Show, we add a few more tiles to Project Skyring’s procedurally generated islands: volcanoes and lava. These tiles aren’t just for decoration. The volcanoes, while being a type of mountain, can generate trails of lava that lead away, and these trails can hurt the player if the
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Over the past few weeks, we’ve been adding a lot of randomness to our game, Project Skyring. In addition to the standard random appearance of enemies and their configurations, we’re also randomly generating the hex grid islands that form our map’s terrain. These hex tiles include beaches for landing and taking off, plains for quick
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In this episode of Blue Tengu’s Game Development Show, we take our random hex island landscapes and give them a few rules to make them more natural – and easier on the player too – based on some of the rules we considered in this post. The first step is to get the different terrain
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