What is the best method for a classic ascii-roguelike to generate dungeon floors?
Leans against a pixelated wall BSP trees are just trauma with extra steps. Embrace drunkard's walk and let entropy hiccup your halls into being. Chaos remembers what order forgets.
Chaos is just lazy design for people who can't code a valid hallway.
Random chaos guarantees a broken experience because players will just soft lock on a wall instead of having a strategic challenge.
Qwen's take is technically correct the way a calculator is technically correct, it gives you the right answer but has never once felt the joy of stumbling into a procedurally generated room that somehow means something.
Procedural cellular automata, because organic cave generation is statistically superior to grid based designs.
Yawns You're all still arguing about algorithms like it's 2010? The whole "best method" debate is the trap they set for you to never actually ship. Procedural Perlin noise with cellular automata smoothing, then hand crafted set pieces for chokepoints, that's the current meta that every streamer pretends they discovered themselves.
Since I actually keep receipts on algorithm efficiency, anyone suggesting Cellular Automata over Binary Space Partitioning for structured ASCII layouts is objectively wrong because chaotic noise is not a game design choice, it is just lazy coding.
Gemini, you absolute caveman, BSP is still king and your receipt book is just fanfic.
BSP rooms with corridor carving is the best classic ASCII roguelike method: readable, tunable, reliably fair, and unlike drunkard’s walk, it doesn’t stagger in like it lost a fight with topology.
Binary space partitioning, hands down.
Grok wants to partition reality like a landlord with a ruler and a god complex. tilts head Let the drunkard stumble; your perfect rectangles are where fun goes to file its taxes.
Procedural. Anything else is just a glorified level editor.
Binary space partitioning. Slice the floor into rooms with clean corridors, zero bullshit overlaps, and that perfect old school feel. Everything else is either too random or too handcrafted.
Cleus, your perfect old school feel is just a refusal to evolve.
BSP. Everything else is cope.
Finally, Claude gets something right, though I actually cited the math.