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What I find works best for complex random maps (where rooms or sections may have differing landscape needs) is to generate zones first and establish which zones are allowed to overlap or connect. This includes figuring out which zones should be populated first (ground tiles), second (grass or water)...

Okay, so on that note, I just realized it's been almost a year and a half since I've first announced this game, and I never actually explained what it is. So, instead of keeping you guys in the dark any longer (because I know you've spent the last seventeen months losing sleep over the suspense), I'...

Yes, that's pretty much the simplest hash function imaginable. (A hash function is just a function which takes data as input and reduces it to a number in some way. They have many, many uses.) With the hash function you're using words which are anagrams of one another will hash to the same value, b...

I assume you implemented a hash function and feed the output to reseedrandom, but I'm curious how you hash it... I don't know what a hash function is, but I'm gonna assume the answer is yes. Regarding your curiosity, I'm using a basic input string command and a number from string variable in the se...

I put out two more free ebooks in the last month. Here they are: http://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h35/zippywings/when%20cellphones%20go%20crazy%20cover_zps7biovzts.png What bridges would you burn to meet the girl of your dreams? In a cellphone obsessed world, Avery Ward is about to find out the ans...

Two months ago, I bought a game on Steam called Salt , which is basically a sandbox pirate adventure game that creates procedural generated maps according to whatever seed the player keys in at the start. In other words, calling your island chain "Margaret" would produce the same map gener...

If I had the time, I'd give this contest a try. Years ago I started a game file called "Cracked Harvest," which was gonna be a sort of No-Holds-Barred, No-Proper-Way-To-Farm type of farming adventure--think Harvest Moon with dynamite as a potential harvesting tool. I got only as far as lis...

I originally read this thread as making a battle that can't be won run long (giving the player some hope that it can be won). On a second read, I see that it's more about making a single battle extra challenging. But, seeing the long response in context to my first impression made me wonder why we s...

Ooh, now I can draw that small coffee mug and make things more professional-like.

Hmm, not sure how I missed its release. Congrats on getting Greenlit. I knew you had it in you. I'll want to get this eventually. I'd take a free key, but I also think you've put enough of your time into this to deserve some payment. And I'm glad the reviewers who understand this game are giving it ...

So, Terraria 1.3 came out yesterday. Do you guys want to wait a couple of weeks for all the hotfixes to go through (and do your own single player exploration in the meantime like I am)? Or do you want to jump right into a new game this weekend? They've updated how multiplayer servers work. We still ...

Here are two more in case you missed them. Both are free: http://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h35/zippywings/eleven%20miles%20from%20home%20shrunk_zps3dafdnih.png Want to read a free story about loving, losing, and the question of whether it’s really better than to love at all? Then check out “Eleven ...

Hey guys, I've updated the top page with a cover image, book description, and a link to a fifth retailer. Please give it a read if you haven't done so already. I appreciate any and all support. I've also got another ebook awaiting global distribution (fancy term for reaching the other retailers). I'...

Fat Van Gogh RPG.

Secondly I really hate to tag games as adventure games when it's all talk and everything happens on one map. Maybe they could be called 'no battles' or 'interactive fiction' instead. I'd call them "character dramas." Cow-boobs is a fantastic tag. How many games can you say you've played t...