Procedural Generation Applied to Metroidvania Level Design

Gasión Medina, Simón

Procedural Generation Applied to Metroidvania Level Design

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Gasión Medina, S. Procedural Generation Applied to Metroidvania Level Design. 2025. handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10230/71475

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Abstract

The Metroidvania genre is a growing trend in the video game industry, with a wide range of acclaimed titles. It is characterized by the importance of good level design to correctly guide players in their progression. The task of designing a cohesive and engaging map structure, along with enough content to populate it, leads to infamously lengthy development cycles in both indie and major studios. This work aims to lay the groundwork for introducing procedural generation tools to the workflow of a level designer working in the development of a Metroidvania title, reducing the development time. To that end, a procedural generation algorithm for Metroidvania map structure and content is proposed and partially implemented into the Godot game engine following a set of requirements derived from a preliminary study into level design for Metroidvania video games.