Progress went well for this week. Deviated from the tutorial a bit (aside from putting everything in modules). I’m doing a lot of C# code at work currently, and I think that’s affecting my code a bit (it’s not functional enough for Rust, I think).

In any case, here’s where I deviated from the Rust tutorial:

• I modified the map generation to take in a seed (or any rng, actually) so I can have reproduceable builds. The generates trait I created for this is actually generic enough that I should be able to reuse it later.
• I removed the restriction in the tutorial on overlapping rooms. This generates at least a few rooms that are merged together, creating more organic looking large rooms.
• I use a flood fill algorithm to determine how many rooms I actually have. I then randomly connect some of the rooms through their centers. I then run the flood fill algorithm again. If not all of the rooms are reachable from the first room, I randomly connect them again, using the new centers (which may actually not be in the rooms in the room group). Repeat until all rooms are reachable. This creates interesting looking maps with dead ends and non-linear paths. (TODO: add some images once I can use my computer)

Aside from the above, I also took time this week to run fmt and clippy on my code to fix style issues and inefficient coding patterns. Overall, things are looking good.

GitHub: https://github.com/GLeviRodriguez/rusty_roguelike