- Steam App
- Monsters and Monocles (328510)
- Event type
- patch note
- Published
- 26 June 2017 - 20:59:36 UTC
- Source
- steam_community_announcements
Short Version: We’ve started an initiative to rework all the map generation in the game, and the mansion is the first zone to get changes. There is a new branch called “testing” that you can download now that contains the work to date. Our next update will focus on adding even more content to the mansion. Long Version: For a long time now Craig and I have felt like the map generation isn’t quite where we want it to be. We have a list of features that we’d *like* to see in the maps - unique/rare one-off rooms, NPC places, trap rooms with more design than “randomly placed spikes,” rooms with unique visuals, and more. We’ve made several efforts to prototype these features in the existing map structures, but were never really happy with the results, and the effort to author a single space of the type was so great that we would likely fall well short of the variety that we want to see. As a s...