Fixed the infinite loop! Hah.
Random maps now generate in under 3 seconds.
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So I got the random map algorithm working now. Not smooth yet but it generates perfect mazes at least.
I’m still working out how to save the exits. It’s either going into one field or separated into up,down,etc or by north,south,etc.
Writing an algorithm to make a random maze is pretty annoying. Especially when you want the maze to come out a certain way. There’s a lot of backtracing involved.
To give it a more open feel, I’ve decided to overlay two separate mazes on top of each other. Let’s hope this works.
Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
Here is a dinosaur,
I drew for you
By Douglas Adams, age 9.
A pocket knife is about the most massively useful thing any young man can have. Partly it has great practical value – you can hunt with it as you bound across the cold taigas of Jaglan Cappa; you can open beverages and sip them on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches of Renthar VII, inhaling the intoxicating sea vapours; pry loose the seven breasted whore of Babel; battle the Beast of Trafalgar IX (a sincerely reluctant opponent, it hesitates to attack as it is daftly afraid of occuring social faux pas – but very ravenous); remove splinters and thorns incurred from rummaging through boreal forests, and of course peel an apple.
More importantly, a pocket knife has immense psychological value. For some reason, if one discovers a young man with a pocket knife, he will automatically assume that he is also in possesion of a sash, merit badges, regulation brown short pants, short sleeved khaki shirt, toothbrush, flask, compass, map, ball of string, mosquito repellant, poncho, space suit, etc., etc. Furthermore, they will happily offer to buy original buttery flavoured kettle corn from said young man. What this person will think is that any boy who can handle a pocket knife can rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and can light a fire with two twigs and a rock is clearly a boy to be recokoned with.
Disclaimer: Douglas Adams didn’t actually write this.
I got the algorithm working! We now have plot course. Combat and trading are in the works next.
