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Certain rooms can only connect to other certain rooms. That’s the basic model, but I’ve had to add a lot of special conditions to this to make things work appropriately.

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For example it’s more likely your living room or bedroom will feature windows compared to a study. It’s more important for some rooms to feature windows than others. This is important for most larger rooms, maybe less so for smaller ones.ģ). Important for larger rooms, for example the living room. I currently have 3 main means of ranking how appropriate a room placement is:ġ). Repeat until either all rooms are placed or there is no space left. After it has tried every available space, it will sort the list using the ranking and pick the most successful attempt, and place the room there. It will then save this placement location and ranking in a list. It will rank how successful or unsuccessful this has been using the rules.

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It cycles in order of how ‘important’ they are, eg the first entry for an apartment is a living room, followed by the bathroom (I think they’re pretty much the most important rooms!) The game will then loop through every available free space and simulate positioning the room there. Next, the game will cycle through a list of defined rooms, each with their own pre-defined rules. In this example with an apartment, it will section off a bathroom, and if there’s room, bedrooms, a kitchen and for much larger floorspaces even a study, shower room, dining room etc.

This is as far as my input goes and where proc gen takes over: I have a ‘generate interior’ button that uses some wizardry to generate dividing walls. Buildings can then be generated from a bunch of these floorplans. Instead of that though I’m defining the floor space, of say an apartment, within the floor of a building. The idea is that I design lots of individual floorplans that are sectioned off into different addresses- kind of like in SimCity where you lay out residential, commercial and industrial zones. I set to work on a separate tool that lets me design floorplans, while also letting me preview what the procedural generation can do.

I decided to concentrate on ‘floors’ as the point where designed elements intersect with the procedural generation. The location hierarchy in the game from large to small looks like this:Ĭity > District > Block > Building > Floor > Address > Room > Tile But for the moment I’ve been focusing on the interior blueprints themselves.īuildings in Shadows of Doubt are split into floors, then divided into ‘addresses’, and within them ‘rooms’. Time will tell how compelling that can really be, and I’ll be writing a lot about this in the future. With my citizen generation system, I have a lot of what I need in place to drive environmental storytelling. The environment is not only part of the player’s world, but someone else’s. Books lying around that you can read snippets of. What makes a location in a game interesting? With a narratively-focused game, I find that environmental storytelling can really make a location feel compelling. It’s perhaps the toughest aspect of the project, but I’ve had a long time to think about it and progress is going well.

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I’ve had to think very carefully on how to go about creating this: I need a way of generating huge numbers of apartments, offices, cafes etc that have enough variation but also don’t require a huge amount of individual design work. One of the most ambitious parts of this project is the huge number of explorable interiors and their complexity. Read previous dev blog entries here.įor the last few weeks I’ve been working on an important part of the game the environments. Citizens go about their lives independent of the player as you watch from the Shadows, in search of crucial information. A unique mix of procedural generation and hand-crafted design enables every room of every building to be explored. Shadows of Doubt is a detective stealth game set in a fully-simulated sci-fi metropolis! There’s been a murder and it’s up to you to solve it by any means necessary, with the condition that you keep a low profile.

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