Improve Procedurally Generated Levels

[benpm]

Procedural levels need to be:

• Fun! They can't be too frustrating and need to have a variety in platform patterns
• Take between 15 and 30 seconds to complete (to give players a chance to do it two or three times before the minute is up)
• Simple and linear enough

[benpm]

Some fun race element ideas:

• Levels that involve some amount of climbing
• Moving platforms, moving pitfalls
• Teleportation
• Maze-like levels

And 'macro' parameters:

• Difficulty
• Approximate time to complete
• Horizontal-ness

[benpm]

Here's my writeup of level gen