Posted September 01, 2024 by st33d
After overhaulling shot altars, I looked at the level chunk system.
Chunks are like a deck of cards, and as levels go up we draw further down the deck. After a percentage of cards are drawn the deck is reset.
This can result in chunks appearing across multiple levels. Which I think is fine, except when it's a boss. Now bosses draw from a new type of deck. Cards are no longer drawn, but banned until all picks in the range for that level are gone. Then it clears all but the previous pick. No more repeat boss fights across levels, or in the same level.
There were other issues in the system that were limiting the pool of available chunks. These have been addressed.
Also:
As well as adding more chunks, my next focus is adding some more boss types. There needs to be at least a couple more to allow unique multi-bosses and better level variance. Look forwards to an even longer version number.