Fer Rodríguez Álvarez

Kitty Powers’ Matchmaker Makeover

Fer Rodríguez Álvarez

Game Programmer

Vigo, Spain

Fer Rodríguez is a game programmer graduated at ITU Copenhagen. He was one of the programmers for the indie hit ONE BTN BOSSES and is currently a developer on the live title Kitty Powers’ Matchmaker Makeover.

Talk

One Button, Infinite Bosses: Roguelike Fight Generation on Rails

In ONE BTN BOSSES, players only have one button to interact with the game. They can’t decide where to move, only how and when they do it. ONE BTN BOSSES features a roguelike game mode where fights are randomly generated but still need to be fair and engaging for players with very little agency. In this talk, I will go through what challenges came up when procedurally generating fights, how we approached and iterated on them, and what went right and wrong.