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Paid Work / Can anyone code this behavior for me?[procedural level generation]

« on: August 21, 2011, 06:28:53 pm »

I'd love a behavior or set of behaviors or whatever that allowed me to procedurally and or randomly create worlds each time the game is started up, much like Minecraft or Terraria, on a 2D grid with tiles or actors or whatever so that certain tiles or actors(grass, dirt), are on a certain level, and so that caves and mountains and stuff are created together coherently, not just in a random spattering of tiles/actors. Is this even possible? I've tried many times myself and I just don't have the skill or knowledge for it. Thanks!

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Ask a Question / Can Stencyl do random/procedural level generation?

« on: June 08, 2011, 12:28:54 pm »

I mentioned this in the game ideas section with a game idea I had(heh), but I'd like to pose it here officially. Can Stencyl handle or do procedural and or random level generation? I'd like a certain set of parameters, like how the layers of the level should be created(something like Terraria), and I'm wondering if this is possible, and if it is, how to go about it. I'm new to Stencyl and I'd love to know. Thanks!

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Game Ideas / [yet to be titled]tower defense/sandbox/platformer

« on: June 08, 2011, 11:16:55 am »

So I've had this idea to make a game, inspired heavily by Terraria and Minecraft. If you've ever played either game, you'll know that there is a day/night cycle, and at night, monsters come out to get you, and will kill you if you don't have shelter. Once you get the hang of this and build a house or whatever for yourself, then you can slowly move on to exploration and creation and building your world. I happen to think that one of the most enthralling things about Minecraft or Terraria is the first couple of nights, when you're jut trying to repel the monsters and stay alive.

So my idea is to make this game where you spawn or whatever in the world, and have the day cycle to explore a little bit and gather resources(wood, stone, sand, etc.) to build a shelter, and then the first wave of monsters hits you. Each night the wave gets harder and harder(more and more enemies, more difficult enemies to kill), but as you repel them and explore, you gain resources to make more complicated and advanced defenses, like catapults and automatic crossbows and TNT mines and so on.

Ideally this would be a local two-player game, with the main player being the one placing blocks, and the other player being able to attack monsters and gather resources, but not die, or something like that. And if/when Stencyl gets multiplayer support, I'd like to of course let someone connect to your game and play along with you, but they'd have the same abilities that you would.

It sounds interesting to me, something I'd like to play, and It's rather ambitious for just starting Stencyl but I think I can do it eventually. The one trick, though, is world generation. Like Minecraft or Terraria, I'd like the game to "randomly" generate a world for you to play on, but with certain parameters like the layers of the world(grass on top, then dirt, then stone or sand or whatever, etc.). Is this possible in Stencyl? What are your thoughts on this idea? I'd like some feedback on the idea. Thanks!