Comments on: Spelunky Generator Lessons: Part 2 – Room Generation

By: Rooms and Obstacles | I SPOTTED THE CAVE'S ENTRANCE

Rooms and Obstacles | I SPOTTED THE CAVE'S ENTRANCE — Sun, 05 Jan 2014 03:37:07 +0000

[…] Darius Kazemi recently demonstrated and explained in detail how levels are generated in Spelunky: […]

By: Nathan Wailes

Nathan Wailes — Sun, 08 Dec 2013 06:15:36 +0000

Just wanted to say that I loved this write-up and hope you’ll continue it. I just started playing Spelunky recently after hearing people rave about it for a long time, and I was curious to know how the procedural generation worked, so I really lucked out that you had taken the time to explain it so well. I suspect techniques like these could be used in a lot more games to make them feel more fresh and interesting.

By: Darius Kazemi

Darius Kazemi — Mon, 25 Nov 2013 14:35:59 +0000

Not sure yet. Need to find the time.

By: Lovepreet

Lovepreet — Sat, 16 Nov 2013 13:18:09 +0000

I finally starting to understand how procedural generation works and is used thanks to this great article. Any news on when the next part will be posted?

By: Joel S

Joel S — Tue, 05 Nov 2013 18:55:03 +0000

Awesome deconstruction, I had thought all the rooms were static templates, the obstacle blocks part was interesting. I look forward to the next part!

By: Darius Kazemi

Darius Kazemi — Sat, 26 Oct 2013 17:45:41 +0000

That is (mostly, as far as I can tell) the case, yes.

By: Ian

Ian — Sat, 26 Oct 2013 17:36:59 +0000

Excellent stuff.

When you say that rooms are guaranteed to be open on the L/R, is it only block 5 from the bottom that is guaranteed to be open. While lots of the templates appear to have broadly open L+R, the position of the 5×3 extras seems to mean only that block is guaranteed open.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Fri, 25 Oct 2013 04:42:08 +0000

These are really awesome, thanks for doing them!!! I’m making my own roguelikelike platformer so it’s very cool to see this. Interested to see part 3. :)