Procedural Map Generation

Introduction

To keep gameplay unique and enhance replay value, the game map will be dynamically generated each playthrough. This means that players will have to adapt their strategy for building their militia and working force, as resources and enemies will not appear statically from game to game. In order to assist with this, the MapGenerator class has been developed, which features functionality to create and output a randomly generated map

Usage

Generate a map

Generating a map should be done in a GameArea class - for example - an implementation in the default ForestGameArea class:

 //Generate a map with the following specifications
    MapGenerator mg = new MapGenerator(mapWidth, mapHeight, citySize, islandSize);
    //Store the map
    char[][] map = mg.getMap();

    for (int x = 0; x < mapWidth; x++) {
      for (int y = 0; y < mapHeight; y++) {
        Cell cell = new Cell();
        if (map[y][x] == mg.getOceanChar()) {
          //Set ocean tiles to "tuft" textures
          cell.setTile(oceanTile);
        } else {
          //Set non-ocean tiles to "grass" textures
          cell.setTile(oceanTile);
        }
        layer.setCell(x, mapHeight - y, cell);
      }
    }

Save human-readable representation of the generated map as a text file