Thanks for playing! I also just started looking into procedural tilemaps and it was a good fit with the theme so I went for it. The map is generated with perlin noise and a threshold to detect "land areas", then I try to find which tile should be displayed in each cell by looking at the adjacent tiles, flags and bitwise ops make this part much easier to write. I also double the original matrix so that the smallest unit of land is a 2x2 square, so I don't have to deal with too many tile types (no single tile completely surrounded by water or tiles, no "bridges", etc)

Thanks for playing! I wanted to try your game too but I'm stuck on the work macbook for the whole week, sorry :(

Thanks for playing! Maybe I can fade the borders into some fog to lessen the frustration, didn't really occur to me while playtesting, thanks for the feedback!

Thanks for playing and for the feedback! I have some ideas for making the map a bit less bland, let's see if I actually end up implementing them or not :D

Thanks for playing! I would love to add a score and maybe even an upgrade system, I thing it would make it more of a "game"

Thanks for playing! Agreed, the controls need work, the first version also included a zoom in/out feature that helped a bit with navigation but it was a bit buggy had to leave it out or I would've burned all my time trying to fix it

Thanks for playing! I would've absolutely loved to think more about the "challenge" aspect, a penalty or a score system would've fit well I think, maybe after the voting period I'll try to iterate a bit on it

Thanks for playing! Good suggestion on the minimap, should be easy to implement too since I already have the grid data on hand