Finally getting somewhere I’m happy with on this one! Rooms are loaded from a text file and can be switched between during gameplay, the idea is finally taking some form! Every room is based on a prototype shape, each rooms tileset is randomly generated. The idea is that all the things that aren’t that important can be randomly generated, and I can make the content with fairly broad statements. For example, the three rooms I have at the moment are created from the following text file:

begin
 name = test1
 proto = test
 east = test2
end

begin
 name = test2
 proto = test
 west = test1
 north = test3
end

begin
 name = test3
 proto = test
 south = test2
end

They’re all currently based off the same “prototype” room (so they share the same shape) but there will be more prototype rooms. They will of course have more things in them, for example, chairs, bookshelves, NPCs. NPCs that are vital to the plot will be explicitly added via text files but I don’t see any harm in having a couple wandering about.

It is a bit funny playing as a different character sprite each time, since the player’s sprite is randomly generated like the NPCs. It does in a way make me want to implement some sort of A Scanner Darkly plot with the whole concept of “scramble suits”, but I don’t know how that will fit in with the plot….