UnexpectedGuest

I recently stumbled upon this awesome free online Dungeon Map Generator, which gives you really nice ready to use maps like this:


While trying to build such a generator from scratch, I quickly came to the conclusion that this one is in fact much more complete and complex that it appears at first sight (and you realize that once you've tried to build your own):

• Maps are not just orthogonal, they're nicely rotated
• Walls are sexy
• Rooms can be round
• Rooms have notes

So yes, I'm trying to build my own map generator (got the idea while playing the solo Dungeon Crawler 2D6 Dungeon, which is by the way as cheap as excellent) and after a few hours of Lua, right now my generated maps look like this (beware, it's all but as sexy as above):

There's a French proverb that says “when I look at myself I feel sorry, when I compare myself I feel comforted”.
Well, right now I'm much more sorry than comforted :)
So now I've got some work, first debug (the doors are badly placed, the corridors too numerous), rooms should be numbered in a clever way, and then make the output a little prettier (as far as the look is concerned there's definitively room for improvement).
And then generate levels interconnected by stairs :)

Why spend hours trying to do this when very nice free tools already exist?
Because “Its the not the destination, it's the journey.”
Peace out.

I recently realized that I really like the R's.
Model of my Mondraker mountain bike?
"Level R", check.
Model of my Honda car?
"Type R", check.
And even my motocross bike is a Kawasaki without R, I do love the 90's Honda models, "CR".
So love (at least mine) is definitely in the R.
(please pronounce "R" the french way (air) , so the joke is 100% complete)

Twenty years ago, I roamed the four corners and like everyone else, I took pictures of Antelope Canyon. You know, the ones where yours are always 100 times uglier than everyone else's?
It just so happens that, at the time, I still had a film camera, which doesn't like X-ray scans at airport security checkpoints, which of course I didn't know, in my naivety at the time (and still a bit this day).
As a result, once developed, all my photos of a once-in-a-lifetime trip are all speckled, and therefore terrible.
Furthermore, the light (or lack of it) in Antelope Canyon already makes this kind of photo natively difficult (plus people everywhere, no photo tripod).
So even if the result is personal and therefore emotional, it's undeniably ugly.
And here, 20 years later, playing with Topaz's tools (no, I'm not sponsored), I've come up with a rather nice result, even if inventing pixels inevitably distances the final result from the original reality.

Yes, 20 years... Life begins when you realize you've only got one? Yes :)