Dungeon Generation in Diablo 1

BrokenFiction · Jul 19, 2019

https://www.boristhebrave.com/2019/07/14/dungeon-generation-in-diablo-1/

Really interesting technical write up on how levels were procedurally generated in Diablo 1.

I recently discovered that thanks to the discovery of various debug symbol files accidentally left lying around, several fans took it upon themselves to reverse-engineer the source code and clean it up into a good guess at what the original game is like. Thus began a week long deep dive into how exactly did lead developer, David Brevik, actually craft these levels. It may have taken away some of the magic of the game, but I learnt lots of techniques I think are applicable to anyone developing a similar game, which I share with you below.

Mitth'raw'nuruodo · Jul 20, 2019

Thanks for the link. A great read and interesting technical analysis / explanation.

Deleted member 3010 · Jul 20, 2019

Thank you for sharing this, I love those kinds of articles!

SnakeXs · Jul 20, 2019

Super awesome story, will dig into the link's content but this may interest you:

https://youtu.be/5tADL_fmsHQ

MPrza · Jul 20, 2019

Diablo 1 is rogue like?.

BrokenFiction · Jul 20, 2019

This is another great talk. The GDC postmortem on Diablo from 2016.

capitalCORN · Jul 20, 2019

MPrza said:
Diablo 1 is rogue like?.

Among the first ultra popular rogue-lites.

DanteMenethil · Jul 20, 2019

MPrza said:
Diablo 1 is rogue like?.

lol you serious?

Dungeon Generation in Diablo 1

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