Complete roguelike tutorial using C++ and libtcod - part 3: dungeon building

Complete roguelike tutorial using C++ and libtcod -originally written by Jice Text in this tutorial was released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported and the GNU Free Documentation License (unversioned, with no invariant sections, front-cover texts, or back-cover texts) on 2015-09-21.

part 1: setting up part 2: map and actors part 3: dungeon building part 4: field of view part 5: preparing for combat part 6: going berserk! part 7: the GUI part 8: items and inventory part 9: spells and ranged combat part 10.1: persistence part 10.2: game menu part 11: dungeon levels and character progression extra 1: about editors and IDE extra 2: debugging extra 3: scent tracking extra 4: makefiles extra 5: more generic items

In this article, we will improve the Map class to generate a real dungeon with rooms and corridors. We'll use a very simple dungeon generator, using a straightforward way to connect rooms together. This will result in "winnable" dungeons (no room disconnected) but with a slightly chaotic look. For a better corridor connection, check the libtcod C++ samples in the libtcod/samples/ directory.

libtcod functions used in this article

TCODRandom::getInstance

TCODRandom::getInt

TCODBsp::TCODBsp

TCODBsp::splitRecursive

TCODBsp::traverseInvertedLevelOrder