Hands-on Rust

Prefabricating Map Sections

Random dungeons are great, but sometimes you want to represent something specific. You might have a great idea for part—or even all—of a map. This has been used to great effect in many games. Games as varied as Diablo and Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup procedurally generate a large portion of their content—and intersperse pre-made sections called vaults.

Handmade Dungeons

Create a new file named map_builder/prefab.rs. Add the usual use crate::prelude::* and define your first prefabricated map section:

MoreInterestingDungeons/prefab/src/map_builder/prefab.rs

use crate::prelude::*;

const FORTRESS : (&str, i32, i32) = ("
------------
---######---
---#----#---
---#-M--#---
-###----###-
--M------M-- ...