I'm studying a little about procedurally generating levels and decided to start with a vertical scrolling game.

I would like to position some platforms vertically in my scene. So far, I've used a basic method: Random positions, with some maximum y-distance between them. However, that means platforms at the same height can still overlap. I would like to be able to have morethan one platform on each height:

I thought about using sets of platforms including unique platforms, combined platforms (2 or 3 per y, and so on), and randomly position those sets. However, this would not prevent the overlapping and I really would like to do it properly procedurally.

Even so, I cannot guarantee that each platform is accessible by the player character from the previous one.

How can I proceed?

I'm studying a little about procedurally generating levels and decided to start with a vertical scrolling game.

I would like to position some platforms vertically in my scene. So far, I've used a basic method: Random positions, with some maximum y-distance between them. However, that means platforms at the same height can still overlap. I would like to be able to have more than one platform at each height:

I thought about using sets of platforms including unique platforms, combined platforms (2 or 3 per y, and so on), and randomly position those sets. However, this would not prevent the overlapping and I really would like to do it properly procedurally.

Even so, I cannot guarantee that each platform is accessible by the player character from the previous one.

How can I proceed?

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I'm trying to learn a little bit about procedurally generating levels and I decided to start with a vertical scrolling game.

What I would like to do is to position some platforms vertically in my scene. So far, I was doing the basic, i.e., positioning them randomly using some y maximum distance between them. However, doing that, the platforms can overlap and I just have one platform at each generated y position. I just would like to be able to generate something like this using the proper technique:

I though about using a set of platforms including unique platforms, combined platforms (2 o 3 per y, and so on, to be randomly positioned. However, this would not prevent the overlapping and I really would like to do it properly procedurally. Besides, I cannot guarantee that one platform is accessible by the player character through the previous one, or if there is an accessible path.

I'm wondering how can I proceed.

Thank you.

I'm studying a little about procedurally generating levels and decided to start with a vertical scrolling game.

I would like to position some platforms vertically in my scene. So far, I've used a basic method: Random positions, with some maximum y-distance between them. However, that means platforms at the same height can still overlap. I would like to be able to have morethan one platform on each height:

I thought about using sets of platforms including unique platforms, combined platforms (2 or 3 per y, and so on), and randomly position those sets. However, this would not prevent the overlapping and I really would like to do it properly procedurally.

Even so, I cannot guarantee that each platform is accessible by the player character from the previous one.

How can I proceed?