Dungeon Generation in Enter The Gungeon

I have played so much of this game, and I admit I didn't even think they were procedural after a while.

Pretty cool to see the devs chime in at the bottom.

I absolutely love this game and I seriously always enjoy a good break down of game design (especially of awesome games like Enter the Gungeon). Some of the best design happens in the background and when combined with engaging game play, makes the whole process seamless.

I would like to know more about his recompile process. Is there a Unity tool?

Two other games with VERY interesting procedural Dungeon Generation:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/506870/Unexplored/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/410350/Antegods__Stonepun...

Based on algorithms outlined in these two papers here:

https://dlnext.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3235765.3235821

Measuring quality of grammars for procedural level generation

Abstract:

"Grammar-based procedural level generation raises the productivity of level designers for games such as dungeon crawl and platform games. However, the improved productivity comes at cost of level quality assurance. Authoring, improving and maintaining grammars is difficult because it is hard to predict how each grammar rule impacts the overall level quality, and tool support is lacking. We propose a novel metric called Metric of Added Detail (MAD) that indicates if a rule adds or removes detail with respect to its phase in the transformation pipeline, and Specification Analysis Reporting (SAnR) for expressing level properties and analyzing how qualities evolve in level generation histories. We demonstrate MAD and SAnR using a prototype of a level generator called Ludoscope Lite. Our preliminary results show that problematic rules tend to break SAnR properties and that MAD intuitively raises flags. MAD and SAnR augment existing approaches, and can ultimately help designers make better levels and level generators."

And:

https://ir.cwi.nl/pub/28418 "Wonderful design: Applying Appraisal Theory to Procedural Level Generation"

Abstract:

"Procedural level generation for games is an active field of research with successful applications. However, how to generate content that embodies design intent is still an open research question. Level designers lack abstractions and tools for authoring generated artifacts for affecting emotion. We propose a novel pattern language for generative level design inspired by Appraisal Theory. Its patterns enable designers to add meaning, depth, and cohesiveness to the resulting content, and modify artifacts to make the content more engaging. We illustrate how these patterns can be implemented in a generative grammar for level generation for an adventure game. Formative evaluation of generated level content demonstrates the feasibility of the approach and suggests points for further improvements. Future work could focus on other elements which seem important for affecting emotions, including pacing, perception, and expectation."