Lucas Fehlberg

The original concept for this game was a roguelike where the layout would be preserved, yet randomly generated so it could be infinite, so that speedrunners could memorize layouts and use that to their advantage, although I would later add a mode that caused the generation to be random every time as well. This was my second overall project and the one I consider to be in the most "complete" state, out of my early games. 

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The first major hurdle in making this game was how to handle procedural generation. I landed on making a "puzzle piece" system, that would place whole rooms and hallways, and any overlaps between ground and walls just became ground. After that, I could make players, enemies, weapons, bosses, etc., each with their own forms of scaling as the player descended.

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While it didn't get as far into making the game as I wanted, I still am really proud of what I managed to do despite not knowing much about game development at the time. It was a really good project for getting me into game dev, and was at the time, my most systematically complex project that I had worked on.