Cave Boy - Minimal Labyrinth Walking Toy

[qubodup]

Cave Boy is a simple maze-crawler with only one level and hardly anything to do. I tried to polish the few things that are in the game by spraying audio files on them.



I started working on this project about 18 hours ago.

1.0 Download [Direct .love Link]

I'll welcome whatever comes to your mind about this.

PS: I wrote a little about Cave Boy on my blog.

[osgeld]

how are you generating the maze?

[whitebear]

I don't think you could call it generating (it's same every time)

[bartbes]

Reason why it is hard to do a random level generator for this:
You should still be able to navigate through the level.

So I guess that rules out random

[whitebear]

Well I'ts still quite possible and has been done before. (not for love though)

[appleide]

Nice voiceover!! Did you record it?

[osuf oboys]

Reason why it is hard to do a random level generator for this:
You should still be able to navigate through the level.

So I guess that rules out random

Any outcome involving randomness is random. You're thinking of the more specific term "uniform at random" (over set of possible levels). A method for generating random levels would be to see each room or intersection as a node in a graph and where edges denote connected rooms or tunnels. Such a graph could be randomly generated while keeping the necessary parts connected and not making the level too easy.

[bartbes]

[StupidNoteWhichAnnoysPeople]You can also buy 2000 PS3s, connect them and let them calculate 20000 different levels, of which one is then chosen by a worker, which is sent to the player. But that wouldn't be that practical.[/StupidNoteWhichAnnoysPeople]

On a (somewhat) serious sidenote: If I understand half of what you're saying, it sounds promising.

[qubodup]

Nice voiceover!! Did you record it?

Thanks! Yeah I did!

About the labyrinth/maze generation: It's relatively easy to implement. Just create a tree that grows inside the table until it fills out all fields with floor or walls. Special rules (like a percentage of a wall being deleted) will make it less linear. Then place the other entities on the map.

[Evil Telephone]

This is really cool, but for some reason on my system the sounds are really messed up. They sound all garbled and crackly. I wonder why that is.