Adding "fog of war" reusing the procedural walls - Marcos' Mysterious Maze devlog #98

In this video I add a kind of fog-of-war to the game, reusing the procedural walls to occlude the inside of unexplored levels.
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[@noa_1104]

The idea seems great, but the specific result surprised me, haha. From the thumbnail I thought it's the other way around: when you see the light brown, then surely that means you can look into the room, while otherwise there's darkness ... Maybe there's quite a few very different possible approaches to this, but either way it definitely sounds logical to also add fog to the corridors.
Maybe you can do an actual fog like effect where everything else just fades out or is in shadow without modifying the geometry, I wonder

[@puzzlinggamedev]

I decided to use walls instead of fog because of the underground metaphor; I'm thinking about adding a "excavation" effect for the reveal of the levels instead of suddenly removing the fog-walls later, but I'm not sure about that yet. But what you say about the colors makes sense, I still have to tune many visual elements, including the color palettes :)

[@noa_1104]

@@puzzlinggamedev that sounds really good, especially animated … I would still find it odd if the surrounding area around levels didn’t also have foreground walls I suppose, even if those are a different color that might influence things a lot