[Research] Spawning Boss At Far Right of Mapping Subworlds

[CollinHerber]

As an investigation ticket we need to figure out spawning the boss when the player reaches the the end of the subworld.
There are a few things that come to mind initially.

1: A biome that once entered that spawns in
The reason why I think a biome is because we will be able to place this anywhere, so maybe if we add underground mapping it doens't always have to be left-right and it's just wherever the biome is. This might be good if we go down the route of "need to explore to find the boss"

2: Simply checking for X coordinate of the player, when they get to somewhere within the X or further to the right we spawn it.
Maybe this is a step 1 and then biome generation comes later?

The purpose of this ticket is to explore options and see what we want to do and also start the discussion of subworlds.

[benj7126]

please bear with me as i blabber out my thoughts...

Maby we could just have one giant cave system, where all maps had a list of possible spawnable mobs, and it spawned them in clusters; and then had the boss at one of the spawnable locations... (somewhat like poe)

Im thinking something like what is on the image below, maby a few more turns n such / less empty space, but we could add abilities/active skills (thinking leap/slams, teleport, "sling shot", juts a high jump and some dashes, and so on) for fast vertical (or both horizontal and vertical) traversal to make the player zoom around and encounter a set amount of mobs...

I was looking at spawning more mobs on the maps but it being 1D just made it super cluttered, it was also only slimes, so no flying enemies, but still; terraria is very much so a vertical game, we have hooks and we jump to dodge a lot of things, bossing is done with like 10 rows of platforms...

Idk, but all in all, i at least vote for not having it just be 1 big line. (even if its curvy.)

(for making the thing i have show, we could designate random positions and save them outside of world gen as spawn points, fill everything with blocks and clear out the spawn points in a semi-circle, then just add paths so that all spawn points get hit, or something along those lines... | when the player comes near the spawn points, we will spawn the enemies (or maby just spawn all enemies at once, can we just not make them not despawn?) - i feel that having an infinite amount of mobs to slay is very terraria like, but kinda hurts a "strong point" of having maps... again, idk...)

*thought ideally a little more open, but i dont think thats impossible, would have to think a little about it first though.

[CollinHerber]

Yea for sure, the in a line thing was just kinda meant to be a POC where we could mimic the systems of going, finding boss, completing map, game loop.

I don't like the idea of "There are # of spawn, and the boss spawns in 1 of them, go find boss"
I do like having the boss location be "random" but not so random where there is the chance that they encounter it almost immediately. Part of completing the map should be defeating the monsters which get progressively harder along the way.

I do definitely love the cave system idea though, I totally intended on having both surface and cave maps, where surface maps would have a variety of buildings and such with loot and caves with traps and so on.

I love the idea of expanding the mapping system into a rather complex, iterated, feature but was just starting very mundane for now. Wonder if we can create a milestone system for this as I see this being one of the more complex systems.

[benj7126]

Well, boss location would ofc be one of the furthest away spawn points; but to make the boss actually be at the end, we could place the spawn location at a random edge, and then assign the boss the furthest away room, create a path to the boss, making smart people have an idea where to go) and then connect everything else semi-randomly.

Probably don't need to make the path to the boss separately as everything will be connected, but you never know...

(could make it linear as well, having to pass all rooms, but that seems kinda like it'd ruin the point of it all...)

[benj7126]

after having the lines, we just throw a little distance detection code on, and wala~
(this probably serves no purpose, but i just fealt like writing some shader stuff, i find it fun but often hard to imagine; dang visuals...)

[benj7126]

So, about mapping; will we have mobs spawn in clusters and have a limited amount (like poe maps and diablo dungeons), or have it like terraria where it spawns mob using spawn rate?
Effectively infinite mobs over time.

[CollinHerber]

I feel like having to maintain the counts of mobs for each of the maps and their variants could get kinda nuts.
But at the same time that level of granular control could be very nice.
I don't really have a strong opinion either way, maybe just go with the easiest to start and we can evolve if need be.
Could even have map types that have each option