I've been working on my first game recently and have gotten to the part where I need to consider how I handle creating my game world and configuring how levels are even created. I've been thinking of ways I could go about this, but I'd like some ideas and maybe some example tutorials on how others have done similar things for Godot 4.0 in 2D.
The game I'm working on is basically aiming to be similar to Barotrauma and FasterThanLight combined, but on a smaller scope since I'm generally new to programming games. My current idea for world generation is to create an invisible grid or chunks that will have a chance to spawn X object or Y enemy, and that chunk gets marked as having spawned that enemy and parsing parameters to affect the likelihood of another object or enemy spawning adjacent to that chunk. E.G Asteroid spawns in chunk -> Adajcent chunks are more likely to spawn with smaller asteroids.Is this a good method to go about this?
The problem with this is that I don't really know how to create a system like this in code, and I don't want to invest a lot of time and backtrack/scrap it for another method down the line since I don't have to much free time to program, so if anyone knows any tutorials or examples or something lmk!
Besides that though, do you have any ideas as to other methods to achieve similar effects? Are there other simpler ways besides hand-crafting large levels?
Game looks like this
