astray
A Lua library for procedural generation of mazes, rooms, and dungeons for roguelikes and dungeon crawlers.
What is astray?
Astray is a Lua library for procedural generation of mazes, rooms, and dungeons. It provides a flexible system for creating diverse layouts suitable for dungeon crawlers, roguelikes, and other games requiring procedural map generation. The library solves the problem of manually designing game levels by offering configurable algorithms that generate unique dungeons each time.
Game developers working on roguelikes, dungeon crawlers, or any Lua-based game that requires procedural map generation. It's particularly useful for indie developers and hobbyists creating 2D tile-based games.
Developers choose Astray for its fine-grained control over dungeon characteristics, simple Lua integration, and customizable ASCII output. Its modified depth-first search algorithm produces organic-feeling dungeons with configurable room placement and corridor behavior.
Overview
Astray is a lua based maze, room and dungeon generation library for dungeon crawlers and rougelike video games
Use Cases
Best For
- Generating procedural dungeons for roguelike games
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