Gariot

Hey @LazyBearGames <3 Here is your daily motivating-cat-piture! Today is our 5 Year anniversary of the daily motivating-cat-picture! :) Its sad that Stummel is not with us anymore, but Findus is still going strong! :) Lets get some cake and have an amazing weekend! #CatsOfTwitter

Soo.... i probably got a job, i guess. Except the boss takes the offer back. But yea, i did not plan to start there and to be honest im not a fan but a job is a job, so who cares. Btw - it was a lazy as fuck AI written job application, so ... i guess it kinda works? xD

Had to do some job applications the last days and an interview today, so i didnt have much time to work on the game. I think i can work on it tomorrow again and the weekend! :)

@CanvasInfinitum Keep up the good work :) Oh and ... YOU DIED!

@BuganDonneraxt I am also dipping my toes into a rouguelike (Qudlike? xD)system, i started playing it and i been trying different game styles to bring my story to life but yeah heres where is at right now

This is so pretty :,)

@jogamedev The art itself is from @KenneyNL - i "only" made all the stuff around it :) He makes great assets, go check him out!

@BuganDonneraxt I really love this art style

My last post's clip got butchered by the compression, sorry about that :D Lets see how this goes. Like i said, its all the versions of my mapgen so far. Last one shows the latest version with better paths! Will continue to work on it. Stay healthy! #GameDev #IndieDev #GodotEngine

In case the clip looks terrible, please take a look here, it seems this one is a bit better :D x.com/BuganDonneraxt…

Here is a little Slideshow of the different iterations of the still wip map generation :) The last one shows the latest and so far best Path generation! Im gonna try to change the Rivers a bit next. After that, Monster will be placed on the map! :D #GameDev #IndieDev #GodotEngine

@Werxzy1 Map generation is such a rabbit hole ... xD

Added procedural map generation with cellular automata, better handling of object actions, and RATS in HATS. #picotron #gamedev #indiedev

@jshurmer Hmmm... i dont know if that would look right :/ And you are probably right, there would be a lof of weird stuff that would happen 😂 I even saw a bug in one of the picture related to the river, soooo... haha

@BuganDonneraxt It could be sick if the river does NOT follow the grid, but carves right through it. I'm sure that would add all sort of weird edge cases and what not.. but atill

Thanks for all the feedback! I tried to implement as much as possible & in my opinion, it looks way better now. Did i mention that the mapgen is very flexible & can generate all kind of sizes? Its awesome! Endless possibilities! What do you think? #GameDev #IndieDev #GodotEngine

@tophatsandgains I really, really underestimated how much work that was 😂

@BuganDonneraxt Yep, looks like naturally occuring nature patterns now!

@TheSadKot Thank you! 😊 Glad you like it!

@BuganDonneraxt Damn dude, I think you really nailed it! It's got a good natural growth look to it now.

I will rework the paths next! :) Gonna use the same logic as with the rivers, just with different tiles, so it it hopefully looks cool/better after that :D Oh and dont forget to enlarge the pics! The second one is wide!

@tophatsandgains Thank you for your feedback, i really appreciate that! I heard similar already from other people so i will try to implement it as good as possible!

@BuganDonneraxt From my point of view.... grass patches perhaps a bit more 'bundled', rather than having random single tiles sprinkled in. Foresty clusters could also have grass clusters surrounding them.

Map generation is getting there, but something feels off. Maybe the forest edges? Maybe the rock placement? Looking for some fresh eyes on this. What would you change? Left "random" placement, right "cluster/noise" placement. #GameDev #IndieDev #GodotEngine

@warandnoise Thank you for your feedback! I head this from different sources now, so i will try to do something like that :)

@BuganDonneraxt Trees tend to cluster by height, decreasing as you extend further. You'll want to grade your trees by implied height and then add them in expanding layers that decrease in height.

@RealPerfectLife No, but thank you for the recommendation, it looks interesting!

@BuganDonneraxt have you never played Qud?

@treijim Good idea and thank you for the feedback! 😊 I think the next iteration of the mapgen will look very interesting thanks to the feedback I am getting here! 🥹

@BuganDonneraxt depending on how natural you want it to look, you could factor in the river during foliage placement; plants tend to grow where there's more water, along banks and shores

@tbah_game Thank you for the feedback! Thats actually good ideas and im gonna look into it! Thanks again, very helpful! :)

@BuganDonneraxt Cluster is definitely better! It looks good to me, it doesn't scream "noise texture" to me. If you want to improve on it perhaps you can add rules like proximity to water affecting tree distribution. Also maybe different tree types for interior and border.