Cybiqon Lab

Notes from the workshop

What we are building, what broke, and what the numbers said. Written by hand, published when there is something worth saying — not on a schedule.

tagged Procedural Generationshow all

date
words
7 601
read
39 min
sources
10 sources
levels
500 levels
in band
419/500 in band
bot vs human
r +0.14
verbs
8 verbs
tests
894 tests
prototypes
10 prototypes
views
8 views

Eight bots played all 500 levels. They were measuring the wrong game.

We built eight bots to play a 500-level arcade game and measure how hard each level is. They played it 720 pixels wide. Phones are 412. Levels do not scale, so the shipped game was roughly twice as hard as the game being measured: 172 of 500 levels in band, not the 421 we were reporting.

Games · Procedural Generation · Testing

date
words
4 405
read
23 min
sources
10 sources
tries
91 322
levels
150 levels
rewrites
2 rewrites
views
34 views

Our puzzle generator lied about difficulty. Twice.

Reversing a solved puzzle by K random moves does not give a K-move puzzle. Our first generator produced 14 usable levels from 91,322 candidates; the second, 14 from 16,249. This is the multi-source BFS that finally measured difficulty correctly.

Games · Algorithms · Procedural Generation