Comments on: Spelunky’s Procedural Space

By: Tutorial: Modding Spelunky’s Level Generator — Tiny Subversions Tiny Subversions

Fri, 08 Jan 2010 02:19:33 +0000

[...] forums, I wrote up a tutorial on modding Spelunky and posted it there. It’s based off a blog post I did back in September, but has a lot more detail about actually modifying it. It ended up taking me about an hour to [...]

By: Darius Kazemi

Darius Kazemi — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 21:44:56 +0000

Thanks Patrick.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 21:38:16 +0000

You did a beautiful job summarizing the algorithm.

By: Darius Kazemi

Darius Kazemi — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 17:30:22 +0000

Now that your article is gone with the erasure of your blog, someone's got to fill the Spelunky level generation analysis gap.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 17:05:51 +0000

Excellent article. Indeed, just space alone is not enough, you need to be able to generate interesting agent behaviors to utilize that space. The largest bit of code in Spelunky outside the main scripts is the behaviors for the Shopkeeper, who is also the most memorable character for many players. More work should be done there. However to complete the arrangement you need some kind of model of the game balance that can be adjusted in real-time, otherwise the complexity becomes prohibitive as I´m sure Derek Yu can attest.

By: kyle

kyle — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 01:04:28 +0000

Awesome breakdown of the world. I didn't want to dig into the code myself, so I'm glad you took the role of tour-guide.