elementbound @elementbound.bsky.social · 22/09/2026man i keep getting stalled because every time i open the project i just end up staring at the scene #gamedev #godot 082
elementbound @elementbound.bsky.social · 21/09/2026you're now part of the party. time to conquer the cursed caverns!static.klipy.comGod and Adam's Animated HandshakeALT: God and Adam's Animated Handshake 000
elementbound @elementbound.bsky.social · 21/09/2026you're in an unfinished dungeon and this guy walks up to you. what's your next move? 👀 #gamedev #godot 1132
elementbound @elementbound.bsky.social · 16/09/2026hahah, indeed, I'll probably have more similar stories to come as I make progress really happy to hear you enjoyed the thread! 010
elementbound @elementbound.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Cherry on top, the whole thing is based on a seed with PRNG. The same seed will yield the same map every time. Which means no need to stream the whole map with all its details over the network, just 8 bytes of seed. /🧵 000
elementbound @elementbound.bsky.social · 12/09/2026While there's more to do, we now have a solution that is conceptually simple, runs under a second, avoids boring, long corridors, supports verticality, and produces interesting layouts with multiple choices. The next step is content and variety so you don't get lost in the grey. 100
elementbound @elementbound.bsky.social · 12/09/2026With this setup, it's easy to create room variations, have treasure rooms, minibosses, puzzles, optional challenges, etc. Un/fortunately, the maps are only as interesting as the rooms they are made of. 100
elementbound @elementbound.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Let's talk about those rooms. The generator works with a Mapset, which contains a bunch of room templates. These have all the data on how and where they should be placed, where to put enemies, and where could players spawn. They bring their own navmesh, so we don't need to bake. 100
elementbound @elementbound.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Same budget-system for items. With the difference that only a few rooms get any budget. The budgets are sampled randomly from a curve, that favors mid results, with the occasional jackpot. 100
elementbound @elementbound.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Still need to place enemies to fight. Each room gets a difficulty budget, which increases based on room depth - the further along you're on the map, the harder it gets. Enemies get picked randomly based on rarity, as long as they fit the budget. 100
elementbound @elementbound.bsky.social · 12/09/2026And since we now don't have to pathfind, we can freely do verticality. Could've been done before too, but probably much more compute intensive. Now we're just lining up doors, so if the room has an entrance both on top and bottom, the algo will try to fit a room on both. 100
elementbound @elementbound.bsky.social · 12/09/2026This switch also meant that instead of starting with a graph and turning it into a physical layout, we generate the layout, and create the graph from that. Much simpler to turn a sensible layout into a graph, than to turn a graph into a layout. 100
elementbound @elementbound.bsky.social · 12/09/2026NB that I've also switched from room count to depth as configuration. Instead of spawning 4 to 12 rooms, it now generates a map of depth 4. This eliminated backtracking, where you go through 4 rooms, and the only way forward is going back to spawn and taking a different turn. 100
elementbound @elementbound.bsky.social · 12/09/2026This was the time for riding down the bell curve. How about we just place rooms randomly, and line up their exits? Much, much simpler, way faster, always succeeds, no boring tunnels. Line up room entrances, and make sure rooms don't overlap. We have achieved legos. 100
elementbound @elementbound.bsky.social · 12/09/2026This is where things were getting *really* brittle. Since corridors can't overlap, the algo would often pathfind itself into an impossible situation. Ignore corridor overlaps, you'd get these long, winding corridors. Pulling rooms closer would mean the algo won't converge. 101
elementbound @elementbound.bsky.social · 12/09/2026This would sometimes not converge - it would keep nudging rooms without finding a good layout. But appropriate settings guaranteed a sensible layout most of the time. To get from one room to the other, we'll place corridor tiles. Find the shortest path using breadth-first search. 100
elementbound @elementbound.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Graphs tell you what rooms exist, but not *where*. My first attempt was placing rooms randomly in space and nudging them around until they make sense. Rules: - Push when overlapping - Push when too close - Pull when too far ( Footage greatly slowed down here ) 100
elementbound @elementbound.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Graph generation is simple and cheap here. Place a starting room, then fanning out until there's enough. At the end, make some random cross-links, i.e. links between rooms of the same depth. Depth here means how many rooms you have to visit starting from the entry room. 100
elementbound @elementbound.bsky.social · 12/09/2026I wanted to have a graph. It tells you what rooms exist, and their connections. This way the generator has an estimate on the order the players encounter rooms. This can allow placing "story beats" in order. E.g. putting a key in one room, and then locking the next room. 110
elementbound @elementbound.bsky.social · 12/09/2026I use a few exported properties which are checked regularly, but you can also do setters. I've implemented everything as a coroutine that regularly takes a break, so I don't crash the editor or freeze the game. Also added a stop button - more useful than you'd hope! 110
elementbound @elementbound.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Before we get into it, there's a crucial step I want to share - fast iteration. Godot's @tool scripts are great for this, they let you run code in the editor itself. This lets you make a change, click, and see the results. Much faster than starting the game every time. 110
elementbound @elementbound.bsky.social · 12/09/2026long time no post, let's do a writeup on procedural mapgen! 🧵 on how it went from a complicated mess to placing legos #godotengine #gamedev 2225
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elementbound @elementbound.bsky.social · 15/02/2025this hypercore? docs.pears.com/building-blo...docs.pears.comHypercore | Pears.com 000
elementbound @elementbound.bsky.social · 09/02/2025what makes you feel this way? for me its UI system is decent so far, so I'm wondering what am I missing 😄 100
elementbound @elementbound.bsky.social · 08/02/2025I know that feel, they usually take a few days 😄 For my own stuff I also post it as Github releases so people can always grab the latest version 100
elementbound @elementbound.bsky.social · 07/02/2025nvm got it 😄 github.com/SWCreeperKin...github.comGitHub - SWCreeperKing/numberclass-gds: gdscript version of numberclassgdscript version of numberclass. Contribute to SWCreeperKing/numberclass-gds development by creating an account on GitHub. 100
elementbound @elementbound.bsky.social · 07/02/2025is this available on github too? wanted to check source on how you did it 😄 100
elementbound @elementbound.bsky.social · 07/02/2025not the spicy thumbtack 😭 tbf I think the radioactive flavored RigidBody deserves a better spot 010
elementbound @elementbound.bsky.social · 29/01/2025beat you to it by two 😄 basing my addon on autoloads is a decision that didn't age that well 😄 110
elementbound @elementbound.bsky.social · 28/01/2025In case you're looking for icons for your custom nodes - you've found it 😄 I've made a custom icon pack, specifically to work with Godot's UI conventions, licensed as CC0! github.com/foxssake/ple... foxssake.github.io/plenticons/ #godot #godotengine 1123
elementbound @elementbound.bsky.social · 27/01/2025hey, someone recommended your post; I'm the author of netfox, a Godot addon for building multiplayer games, with lag compensation and other techniques out of the box. Like a higher-level multiplayer on top of Godot's. If you think it'd be a good fit, I'm happy to talk! github.com/foxssake/net...github.comGitHub - foxssake/netfox: Addons for building multiplayer games with GodotAddons for building multiplayer games with Godot. Contribute to foxssake/netfox development by creating an account on GitHub. 130
