Snow Captain on Nostr: Hmm, the new area generation prototyping for Seeds of Earth has been much more ...

Hmm, the new area generation prototyping for Seeds of Earth has been much more difficult than I had originally thought it would. I'm now planning on using a queue to build the space in multiple passes:
1. Put in the start node (entrance GrASP Node)
2. Enqueue primary nodes (things like asteroid fields, space stations, mega-corp vendor outposts, storage facilities, etc.)
3. Position primary nodes, rebuilding the queue when invalid conditions are found (such as unsolvable overlaps or other stuff I don't like tbd)
4. Pick some primary nodes to add secondary and/or secret nodes (like junk fields, enemy hangars, mini-bosses[?]), enqueue those
5. Position secondary/secret nodes, rebuilding or discarding invalid
6. <Redacted for spoilers>
I hope to make better progress over tonight and tomorrow, but the day is almost over already...



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