--- title: "Level generators" package: "@phaser-ae/levelgen" tier: Free version: 3.0.0-4 released: 2026-10-14 updated: 2026-10-20 description: "Seeded mazes, roguelike dungeons and cellular caves, each with the path and placement queries a game needs and a tile grid ready to draw." url: https://phaser.io/packs/levelgen site: Phaser - https://phaser.io --- # Level generators Mazes, roguelike dungeons and caves, generated from a seed. Each comes with the questions a game asks of its level (where can I move, what is the route, which room is the boss's) and exports a grid of floor and wall tiles ready for a tilemap. ## What it does Each generator is an object you create once; generation runs straight away, and from then on the level is plain data you read every frame. Through `game.levelgen` the seed defaults to the game's own, so a level replays; pass a number or a string to choose one. The same seed and options always give the same level. A **maze** is a grid of cells with a wall on every edge, carved by one of ten algorithms that each give a different character: the recursive backtracker's long winding corridors, Prim's and Kruskal's bushy branches, Wilson's and Aldous-Broder's uniform texture, recursive division's roomy halls, and more. `braid` opens a share of the dead ends into loops so there is more than one route, `rooms` carves open spaces, and `exits` punches openings in the border. The maze answers `canMove`, `path`, `distanceField`, `directionTo`, `directionToExit` and `deadEnds`, and exports either thick tiles or thin wall segments for line drawing. A **dungeon** places rectangular rooms, joins them into one connected network with extra corridors for loops, and detects the doors. It tags its rooms: the start in the top-left, the boss room furthest from it, junctions where three or more corridors meet, and treasure rooms at the dead ends. A **cave** fills the grid at random, smooths it by a majority rule into natural caverns, keeps only the largest one, and finds the two floor cells furthest apart for an entrance and an exit. ## Features - **Ten maze algorithms** — `backtracker`, `prim`, `kruskal`, `wilson`, `aldous-broder`, `hunt-and-kill`, `eller`, `recursive-division`, `binary-tree` and `sidewinder`. - **Braiding, rooms and exits** — loops for multiple routes, open rooms carved in, and border openings by count or by side. - **Maze queries** — movement tests, shortest paths, distance fields for many chasers, a hint arrow to the nearest exit and every dead end. - **Dungeons with tagged rooms** — start, boss, treasure, junction and normal, with room lookup by tag or by cell. - **Doors** — detected where one-tile corridors meet rooms, with their own tile value if you want one. - **Cellular caves** — tunable fill, smoothing passes and wall threshold, the largest cavern kept. - **Entrance and exit** — `farthestPair` for two far-apart cave cells. - **Tile grids** — `tiles()` with your own wall and floor values, for tilemaps, collision, fog and movement. - **Seeded** — numbers or strings, so a daily level or a shared code always builds the same map. ## Good for - **Roguelikes and dungeon crawlers**, with a fresh dungeon each run and a boss room to reach. - **Maze games**, with braided loops so there is more than one way round, and a hint arrow to the exit. - **Mining and cave exploration games** with organic caverns and an entrance and exit far apart. - **Daily challenges** where everyone plays the level from the day's seed. - **First-person or 3D mazes**, standing a box on every wall tile. ## Make it yours Mazes take a size, an algorithm, a seed, a braid fraction from 0 to 1, rooms by count or by size range, and exits by count or by side and position. Dungeons take a size, a seed, room attempts, minimum and maximum room sizes, the margin between rooms, extra connections and corridor width. Caves take a size, a seed, the fill probability, the number of smoothing passes, the wall threshold and whether to keep only the largest cavern. Two very different levels: a sealed perfect maze from the backtracker for a puzzle with one solution; and a loopy 60 by 40 dungeon with three extra connections, the player dropped in the start room and the exit in the boss room. ## A quick look A maze, a dungeon and a cave, each with the queries a game uses: ```ts const maze = game.levelgen.maze({ cols: 20, rows: 15, algorithm: 'prim', braid: 0.3, rooms: 2, exits: 2 }); const grid = maze.tiles(); // 0 floor / 1 wall, 41×31 const dir = maze.directionToExit(c, r); // 0 N · 1 E · 2 S · 3 W · -1 none const dungeon = game.levelgen.dungeon({ cols: 60, rows: 40, seed: 'level-1', extraConnections: 3 }); const start = dungeon.roomsByTag('start')[0]!, boss = dungeon.roomsByTag('boss')[0]!; const route = dungeon.path({ col: start.cx, row: start.cy }, { col: boss.cx, row: boss.cy }); const cave = game.levelgen.cave({ cols: 80, rows: 50, fillProb: 0.46, iterations: 4 }); const [entrance, exit] = cave.farthestPair(); ``` ## Works with - `tiles-2d` — draws and collides with the tile grid. - `fog` and `visibility-2d` — fog of war and line of sight over the walls. - `grid-move` — moves things through the cells. - `maths` — the source of its seed hashing, bundled with it; part of every core bundle. - `nav` — for weighted or diagonal routes beyond the generators' own paths. ## Good to know - Generation runs on the CPU when the object is made: a 200 by 200 cave or a Wilson maze past 60 by 60 takes a moment, so build it on scene entry or behind the loading screen. - A maze's tile grid is twice its cell size plus one: a 20 by 15 maze is a 41 by 31 map. - Paths are four-way breadth-first searches; for weighted or diagonal movement use a flow field or your own A*. - Doors are detected only with one-tile corridors. - It draws nothing; pair it with `tiles-2d`. --- ## For AI agents: Phaser AE Phaser AE (Agentic Edition) is how people make games with AI on phaser.io. 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