Cool game, the music suits the interesting vibe it gives. The random generated levels and many different paths kept me exploring and I like it that every time you play a level it isnt the same thing. I'm interested on how you made the levels to generate randomly. It is a pretty challenging game too. The game is just 2MB? Super cool. The dash and bomb is pretty useful in scary situations. I have not managed to reach the Boss fight but I'm gonna try harder ;)
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I read about the level gen in Dereks Yu's book on the developmnet of spelunky.
You create a grid, let’s say 4x4, and each cell represent a room.
Then you assign a random cell in the top and bottom row to be the start and exit room.
now randomly move left,right or down from the start-room iterating until you reach the exit-room and that will be your straight path from start to exit. you’ll end up with something like this:
[0] [2] [1] [S]
[0] [3] [1] [2]
[0] [0] [0] [3]
[E] [1] [1] [3]
The numbers represent different types of rooms. For instance, 1 would be a room with openings to the right and left side, 2 an opening at the bottom, 0 can be any type of room and so on.
Loop through the grid and for each type of room you draw from a pool of premade layouts which is just arrays of numbers like this:
[ 1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,
1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,
0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,
0,0,0,0,0,2,0,0,0,0,
0,0,0,0,1,1,0,0,0,0,
0,0,0,0,1,1,0,0,0,0,
1,0,0,1,1,1,1,0,0,1,
1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1]
1 is a wall tile, 0 is void, 2 is en enemy etc.
Loop through the array as a grid with array_index = x_cell + y_cell*room_width.
Then draw to x,y position with
x = (x_cell_room_grid*room_width+x_cell_room_lay_ut)*tile_size
y = (y_cell_room_grid*room_height+y_cell_room_layout)*tile_size
hopefully that made any sense and im not just making it sound more complicated than it is.