Hey everyone, Ben here,
It's been a while, so I wanted to share some updates on the upcoming update and go a bit more in depth into one of the upcoming changes, which I am especially excited for, the remade room generation.
First of, the update is still progressing smoothly, however it has gotten a lot bigger than originally anticipated, so it's taking a bit longer to develop than we thought it would. However it should still hopefully be finished sometime over the next few weeks, but no promises in that regard. I wanna make sure it's as good as it can be afterall!
Now to the more exciting topic, the reworked room generation. In case you didn't know, Revitas enemy rooms are entirely computer generated, they aren't put together by hand. The idea being, that that would make for more unique rooms and overall just more room variety.
However, I have heard from a lot of people that they feel like the rooms are a bit too boring or repetitive. Not even requiring things like wall jumps and overall just being pretty much empty square rooms with platforms in them.
So with that out of the way, I am happy to present some examples of the entirely reworked room generation that I have been working.
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As you can see, the new system emphasizes interesting level layouts a lot more than the old one. Sometimes it even requires you to use the wall jump or gun jump to reach areas efficiently. This should make combat a lot more interesting and give you new and interesting ways to test your platforming skills, while also keeping runs overall more varied!
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Hope this little preview of the new room generation system got you even more excited for the update, I certainly am. To end things off I'll leave you with a little teaser for something else coming in the update.
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Curious isn't it? Well then, until next time!
- Ben