WPF

For about a year now I've been somewhat quietly working on a new game project. This has been a really fun project based on the idea of the "Backrooms", a strange space where you go when you clip through reality. I fell down the rabbit hole when I saw a youtube video by Kane Pixels, and almost immediately wanted to build a game based on the idea. Right away I had some challenges to tackle. The world in the "Backrooms" is a sprawling maze that seems to go on forever, and generating an infinite maze in Unreal Engine was not a challenge I wanted to tackle. Primarily I wanted to create a rich gameplay experience based on this concept, and making this happen in a procedural world would be a huge undertaking. So I thought outside the box a bit, and realized that if I could create a maze big enough and use world partitioning to slice it up, it could seem infinite to the player. So the first step then was to see what it would take to actually generate a maze in code. It turns out that generating a perfect maze is pretty straight forward with a modified depth-first approach. Once I had a basic maze generator built, the feature set of the tool exploded as I was able to add more and more features to create a richer world. Check out the full article to join me on my journey from a simple 2D tool, to a more complex 3D tool using C# and WPF!