storm33229

While helpful in a general sense, your reply is a little to high level and design oriented. I am asking for a more detailed technical discussion, so if you can expand on your implementation section that would be really helpful.

I am working on creating a procedural dungeon generator. I'm off to a decent start, but it seems that AAA titles like Diablo 3 and Torchlight use some fairly complex systems to achieve their results. For where I am at now, this is very evident when I use my current algorithm in 3D instead of a simple 2D grid.

In the 2D example, the algorithm looks promising - this is deceiving; when viewed in 3D it is obvious that this algorithm will work only for throwback RPG's (think Might & Magic, Doom 98, or more recently Legend of Grimrock). There's nothing wrong with that, but it's not near the level of complexity I want to achieve.

I'm looking into this: http://www.uoguelph.ca/~jbrown16/Vvaltchanov_c3s2e12.pdf

Any suggestions, articles, papers, etc. are greatly appreciated.