Unity and 7DRLs

[guest509]

That sounds great. Reusing current code and stuff from other projects is allowed and encouraged, in case you were wondering.

[PTrefall]

Yes, I've come to realize that Last year we started pretty much fresh, except for the feeble start of a dungeon generator

[PTrefall]

Btw, for anyone interested in using Unity3D for making roguelikes, there are now starting to appear some 3rd party extensions for it to help in the process:

Free:
ProD FREE: Procedural Dungeon Generator for Roguelik

Payed for:
ProD: Procedural Dungeon Generator for Roguelikes
Dungeon Crawler Starter Kit
Dinky Dungeon Level Generator
Dungeon Builder
RPG Starter Kit
ORK Okashi RPG Kit
Hack'n'Slash - RPG KIT
UniRPG, the RPG Maker
Grids
Daedalus, Random Dungeon Generator for Unity

[guest509]

Wow thanks man. I hope to see more people doing this. I'm pretty committed to gamemaker for the foreseeable future, but if I ever get nutty and make the jump Unity and all it's extensions is the way I'd go.

[PTrefall]

For anyone considering Unity for this year's 7DRL, here are some tutorials and how-to videos on using Unity3D that relates to roguelike development.
Quill18's TileMaps series
XDavidLeon's Roguelike Development in Unity part 1
XDavidLeon's Roguelike Development in Unity part 2
Nathan William's Unity Dungeon Generator
Recursive shadow casting
Creating Random Dungeons Series (C#)
Blog of Roguelike framework development in C#

[Darren Grey]

Unity have said they give out more trial codes for the 7DRL month again this year. I'll get more info up tomorrow.

[PTrefall]

I've started on a port of Eben Howard's SquidLib to Unity3D. I'll be using it myself for handling FOV this year. It's unfinished, but the Shadow FOV solver works at least + some other convenient things like Direction management and so on.
https://bitbucket.org/ptrefall/unity3d-rogulike-kit/

[Eben]

I've started on a port of Eben Howard's SquidLib to Unity3D. I'll be using it myself for handling FOV this year. It's unfinished, but the Shadow FOV solver works at least + some other convenient things like Direction management and so on.
https://bitbucket.org/ptrefall/unity3d-rogulike-kit/

 

[PTrefall]

Unity 5 introduces plugin-free web deployment:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSfakMeW0lw

[Inja]

Hey,
I'm working on a dungeon/map generation library for C# that should work in unity as well. It's still in early development but you can check it out on Github here https://github.com/odedw/karcero, and the documentation site here http://www.odedwelgreen.com/karcero (nothing really there yet). I would love some feedback about features you would want to see and other stuff.

[PTrefall]

Very interesting Inja, I'll give it a spin in Unity as soon as I can find some time!

Would love to be able to set a chance for generating loops in the dungeon, not sure if yours do? That's one of the things most of the Unity-available dungeon generators don't feature, they're usually all branches with no loops, which is horrible for roguelikes (well, for most games). Backtracking through areas already visited too much is bad :-)

[PTrefall]

Unity and procedural generation talk from Unite 2014:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySTpjT6JYFU&list=UUG08EqOAXJk_YXPDsAvReSg

[PTrefall]

ProD asset pack for Unity now has a Rogue Basin page. I think that says something for the direction it wants to go, though it still has a way to go before it's close to LibTCOD/ROT.js/SquidLib:
http://www.roguebasin.com/index.php?title=ProD

[PTrefall]

Unity 5 is now officially available, and their new licensing model is pretty slick! Personal license is giving you all of unity's features for free. Unity 5 gives, among a lot of other things, WebGL deployment possibilities. No more Unity Web Player!

http://unity3d.com/get-unity

[reaver]

On par with Unreal Engine going free it seems. Hmm, competition working well for the consumers I suppose.