Randomized Overworld Layout — Handmade Hero — Episode Guide

0:00Recap and set the stage for the day

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0:00Recap and set the stage for the day

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0:00Recap and set the stage for the day

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1:08Demo our randomly generated dungeon placement

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1:08Demo our randomly generated dungeon placement

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1:08Demo our randomly generated dungeon placement

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2:17Pull up the original Legend of Zelda map¹

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2:17Pull up the original Legend of Zelda map¹

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2:17Pull up the original Legend of Zelda map¹

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3:20Note the proximity-ordered placement of dungeons in The Legend of Zelda²

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3:20Note the proximity-ordered placement of dungeons in The Legend of Zelda²

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3:20Note the proximity-ordered placement of dungeons in The Legend of Zelda²

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4:09Recap our plan to make each dungeon increase in difficulty as you go deeper into them

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4:09Recap our plan to make each dungeon increase in difficulty as you go deeper into them

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4:09Recap our plan to make each dungeon increase in difficulty as you go deeper into them

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5:21Consider how to motivate exploration of our overworld

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5:21Consider how to motivate exploration of our overworld

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5:21Consider how to motivate exploration of our overworld

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6:35Note the Legend of Zelda's difficulty cues that motivate overworld exploration

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6:35Note the Legend of Zelda's difficulty cues that motivate overworld exploration

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6:35Note the Legend of Zelda's difficulty cues that motivate overworld exploration

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8:24Why would you care about how you are traversing things?

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8:24Why would you care about how you are traversing things?

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8:24Why would you care about how you are traversing things?

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8:52hniojnuoujbnh If you think C++ is bad and C better, then why don't you just use C instead of C++?

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8:52hniojnuoujbnh If you think C++ is bad and C better, then why don't you just use C instead of C++?

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8:52hniojnuoujbnh If you think C++ is bad and C better, then why don't you just use C instead of C++?

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9:44Why would you care about how you are traversing things? (cont.)

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9:44Why would you care about how you are traversing things? (cont.)

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9:44Why would you care about how you are traversing things? (cont.)

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10:50Exploration motivation ideas: 1) Enemy generators, with overlapping ranges

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10:50Exploration motivation ideas: 1) Enemy generators, with overlapping ranges

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10:50Exploration motivation ideas: 1) Enemy generators, with overlapping ranges

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14:29Exploration motivation ideas: 2) Temporary destruction of generators, which strengthen upon regenerating

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14:29Exploration motivation ideas: 2) Temporary destruction of generators, which strengthen upon regenerating

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14:29Exploration motivation ideas: 2) Temporary destruction of generators, which strengthen upon regenerating

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15:39radavandar So what you get in return for taking out a generator should be worth increasing the long-term difficulty

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15:39radavandar So what you get in return for taking out a generator should be worth increasing the long-term difficulty

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15:39radavandar So what you get in return for taking out a generator should be worth increasing the long-term difficulty

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16:50wheeel Is there a way to tie the overworld difficulty to the dungeon difficulty system, or is it better to keep separate?

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16:50wheeel Is there a way to tie the overworld difficulty to the dungeon difficulty system, or is it better to keep separate?

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16:50wheeel Is there a way to tie the overworld difficulty to the dungeon difficulty system, or is it better to keep separate?

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17:04Consider making multiple and different routes overlap different generators

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17:04Consider making multiple and different routes overlap different generators

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17:04Consider making multiple and different routes overlap different generators

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19:39Consider using the dungeon generator for enemy generators

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19:39Consider using the dungeon generator for enemy generators

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19:39Consider using the dungeon generator for enemy generators

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20:12Augment world_room with a DebugColor for AddWorldRoom() to set

22:15Our orphanage outline is red

22:40Fix CreateOrphanage() to pass green to PlaceDebugMarker()

22:55With our green orphanage and yellow dungeons, plan to place red enemy generators

23:52tinspin By the way, is Handmade Hero going to get multiplayer?

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23:52tinspin By the way, is Handmade Hero going to get multiplayer?

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23:52tinspin By the way, is Handmade Hero going to get multiplayer?

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25:14Set up CreateForest() to generate enemy generators, augmenting world_generator with GeneratorCount and GeneratorLocations

29:04dandymcgee Your game design woes are the essence of my existence as a programmer. I feel your pain in my soul

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29:04dandymcgee Your game design woes are the essence of my existence as a programmer. I feel your pain in my soul

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29:04dandymcgee Your game design woes are the essence of my existence as a programmer. I feel your pain in my soul

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29:33Consider specifying the notion that "these points in the world should have this many overlapping generators"

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29:33Consider specifying the notion that "these points in the world should have this many overlapping generators"

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29:33Consider specifying the notion that "these points in the world should have this many overlapping generators"

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31:25Introduce world_gen_location and world_gen_location_type, to replace DungeonLocations and GeneratorLocations in world_generator

35:14Update CreateDungeon() to use our new world_gen_location, introducing GetLocation()

37:47ponkkiz Anyone know if this error highlighting is public or is it Casey's own thing?

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37:47ponkkiz Anyone know if this error highlighting is public or is it Casey's own thing?

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37:47ponkkiz Anyone know if this error highlighting is public or is it Casey's own thing?

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38:17Introduce GetClosestLocationTo() and GetClosestDistanceTo() for CreateDungeons() to use

43:53Set up CreateWorld() to call all the location creation functions, respecifying world_gen_location_type as plain ints rather than flags

48:36Rename CreateForest(), CreateOrphanage() and CreateDungeons() to Layout*(), and introduce CreateMonsterGenerator() and CreateItemRoom()

51:08Introduce PushLocation()

53:04Implement GetClosestLocationTo(), and make CreateWorld() push the orphanage location first

59:38Infinitely loop in our location placement code

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59:38Infinitely loop in our location placement code

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59:38Infinitely loop in our location placement code

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59:50Scour our location placement code for problems

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59:50Scour our location placement code for problems

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59:50Scour our location placement code for problems

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1:01:34Enable GetClosestLocationTo() to handle exclusion types, introducing Matches() and FlagOf()

1:05:14Hit a write access violation

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1:05:14Hit a write access violation

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1:05:14Hit a write access violation

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1:05:51Hit the Gen->LocationCount assertion in PushLocation()

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1:05:51Hit the Gen->LocationCount assertion in PushLocation()

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1:05:51Hit the Gen->LocationCount assertion in PushLocation()

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1:05:59Fix LayoutOverworld() to increment PlacedDungeonCount(), relieving it of using dungeons as an exclusion type

1:06:19Run successfully in -Od

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1:06:19Run successfully in -Od

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1:06:19Run successfully in -Od

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1:06:35Run successfully in -O2

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1:06:35Run successfully in -O2

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1:06:35Run successfully in -O2

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1:06:47Consider generalising our half-annulus point-picking code

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1:06:47Consider generalising our half-annulus point-picking code

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1:06:47Consider generalising our half-annulus point-picking code

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1:09:07Drop frames

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1:09:07Drop frames

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1:09:07Drop frames

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1:10:24Quick break

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1:10:24Quick break

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1:10:24Quick break

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1:10:30afk

1:12:08Return and eyeball the dropped frames counter

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1:12:08Return and eyeball the dropped frames counter

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1:12:08Return and eyeball the dropped frames counter

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1:13:35Introduce PickPointInAnnulus() and world_gen_annulus

1:22:46Our dungeons remain dispersed along a half-annulus

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1:22:46Our dungeons remain dispersed along a half-annulus

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1:22:46Our dungeons remain dispersed along a half-annulus

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1:22:54Make LayoutOverworld() generate item rooms using PickPointInAnnulus()

1:24:54Hit our max iteration assertion in PickPointInAnnulus()

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1:24:54Hit our max iteration assertion in PickPointInAnnulus()

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1:24:54Hit our max iteration assertion in PickPointInAnnulus()

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1:24:59Fix LayoutOverworld() to strew items along a different annulus

1:25:34We now have item rooms, but can still hit our max iteration assertion in PickPointInAnnulus()

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1:25:34We now have item rooms, but can still hit our max iteration assertion in PickPointInAnnulus()

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1:25:34We now have item rooms, but can still hit our max iteration assertion in PickPointInAnnulus()

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1:26:02Consider improvements to PickPointInAnnulus()

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1:26:02Consider improvements to PickPointInAnnulus()

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1:26:02Consider improvements to PickPointInAnnulus()

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1:27:29Switch PickPointInAnnulus() to use a random angle and distance, to discard fewer points

1:30:13Locations are placed behind the orphanage

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1:30:13Locations are placed behind the orphanage

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1:30:13Locations are placed behind the orphanage

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1:30:42Augment world_generator with an OrphanageYLine for PickPointInAnnulus() to clip to, introducing IsInForest()

1:32:54Hit our max iteration assertion in PickPointInAnnulus()

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1:32:54Hit our max iteration assertion in PickPointInAnnulus()

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1:32:54Hit our max iteration assertion in PickPointInAnnulus()

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1:33:11Decrease MinDistFromExistingLoc from 40 to 20 for item rooms

1:33:17We successfully place locations

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1:33:17We successfully place locations

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1:33:17We successfully place locations

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1:33:46Establish the notion of min distance from everything / specific, introducing world_gen_filter for world_gen_annulus to contain

1:34:59Enable PickPointInAnnulus() to apply our new world_gen_filter

1:39:53Locations may only be placed far from their same type but near different types

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1:39:53Locations may only be placed far from their same type but near different types

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1:39:53Locations may only be placed far from their same type but near different types

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1:40:33Determine to add the monster generators

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1:40:33Determine to add the monster generators

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1:40:33Determine to add the monster generators

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1:41:49Make LayoutOverworld() generate enemy generators, augmenting world_gen_location with OverlappingGeneratorCount

1:52:45Hit our max iteration assertion in PickPointInAnnulus()

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1:52:45Hit our max iteration assertion in PickPointInAnnulus()

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1:52:45Hit our max iteration assertion in PickPointInAnnulus()

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1:52:52Temporarily decrease MinDist from 10 to 0 for the monster generator filter in LayoutOverworld()

1:53:02Hit our max iteration assertion in PickPointInAnnulus()

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1:53:02Hit our max iteration assertion in PickPointInAnnulus()

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1:53:02Hit our max iteration assertion in PickPointInAnnulus()

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1:53:08Revert MinDist in LayoutOverworld()

1:53:27Try making LayoutOverworld() place monster generators at our annulus-dispersal centroids

1:53:56Crash on PushLocation()

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1:53:56Crash on PushLocation()

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1:53:56Crash on PushLocation()

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1:54:03Scour our monster generator placement code for bugs

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1:54:03Scour our monster generator placement code for bugs

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1:54:03Scour our monster generator placement code for bugs

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1:54:26Hit our Gen->LocationCount assertion in PushLocation()

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1:54:26Hit our Gen->LocationCount assertion in PushLocation()

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1:54:26Hit our Gen->LocationCount assertion in PushLocation()

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1:54:44Count up our locations

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1:54:44Count up our locations

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1:54:44Count up our locations

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1:55:11Make LayoutOverworld() add 1 to our MaxLocationCount for the orphanage

1:55:21Run successfully in -Od

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1:55:21Run successfully in -Od

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1:55:21Run successfully in -Od

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1:55:27In -O2, our monster generators are all placed in the same location

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1:55:27In -O2, our monster generators are all placed in the same location

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1:55:27In -O2, our monster generators are all placed in the same location

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1:55:52Try letting LayoutOverworld() place monster generators at the centroid of dungeons and item rooms without overlapping generators

1:57:21Our monster generators are placed better

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1:57:21Our monster generators are placed better

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1:57:21Our monster generators are placed better

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1:57:35Desire random location picking for monster generators

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1:57:35Desire random location picking for monster generators

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1:57:35Desire random location picking for monster generators

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1:59:34Let LayoutOverworld() place monster generators along their annuli

1:59:53We have plenty more locations

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1:59:53We have plenty more locations

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1:59:53We have plenty more locations

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2:00:10Increase MonsterGeneratorCount from between 12 and DungeonCount + ItemRoomCount in LayoutOverworld()

2:01:26Hit our max iteration assertion in PickPointInAnnulus()

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2:01:26Hit our max iteration assertion in PickPointInAnnulus()

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2:01:26Hit our max iteration assertion in PickPointInAnnulus()

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2:01:35Let LayoutOverworld() place monster generators around other monster generators

2:01:51Successfully place all locations

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2:01:51Successfully place all locations

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2:01:51Successfully place all locations

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2:02:44Increase MinDist from 10 to 20 for the monster generator filter in LayoutOverworld()

2:02:53Hit our max iteration assertion in PickPointInAnnulus()

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2:02:53Hit our max iteration assertion in PickPointInAnnulus()

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2:02:53Hit our max iteration assertion in PickPointInAnnulus()

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2:03:09Make PickPointInAnnulus() try 10× more points

2:03:20Successfully place all locations, with the determination to place paths next week

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2:03:20Successfully place all locations, with the determination to place paths next week

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2:03:20Successfully place all locations, with the determination to place paths next week

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2:04:29Plug the Handmade Hero pre-order³ and Molly Movie Club⁴

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2:04:29Plug the Handmade Hero pre-order³ and Molly Movie Club⁴

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2:04:29Plug the Handmade Hero pre-order³ and Molly Movie Club⁴

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2:07:16That's about it

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2:07:16That's about it

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2:07:16That's about it

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2:07:30technicbeam Saves me from having to watch Dune

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2:07:30technicbeam Saves me from having to watch Dune

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2:07:30technicbeam Saves me from having to watch Dune

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2:07:34Take it easy, everybody

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2:07:34Take it easy, everybody

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2:07:34Take it easy, everybody

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