A little peek behind the curtain on Cosmogelica's infinite scrolling...

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A little peek behind the curtain on Cosmogelica's infinite scrolling...
OK the procedural background layer generation is BRILLIANT honestly. I never thought of doing it that way and i totally should
like one of the things i've always struggled with with my shooter projects is "how to make good effective backgrounds without requiring a ton of manual painstaking and brittle work" and, well, that is certainly one approach to take that still looks really nice and provides some degree of infinite variety within a tileset, and is also very flexible with lots of different ways you could structure levels. Nice work.
yea!! I really should make a video about how the game uses a bunch of chunks to build the level. The ground units that appear on the chunks allow me to have hand crafted level elements, but presenting them in a random order and having variance in enemy spawn based on difficulty allows it to feel fresh every time (I got the idea from Finji's Overland, where you get a ton of hand made stages, but there's a bunch of randomized elements on those stages, meaning you get cohesive level design but also a fresh experience with each run)