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Dynamic Terrain Texture

I've been looking at a 2D physics game called 'Hill Climb Racing' (Android and iOS) and was wondering how they went about texturing the terrain? I've had a think about it and I've come up with ...
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2D Tile Game - Smooth Biome Terrain Transitions

While working on my 2D tile based game, I encountered a problem. I use Perlin Noise to generate the terrain. Some biomes (Desert, Forest, etc) have different flatness values depending on terrain, ...
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Hills in a topdown game

I'm making a top down rpg game and was wondering if it was possible to show hills on a map instead of having everything completely flat. I've thought about changing to an isometric view, but if it can ...
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Infinite 2D Terrain

I was wondering how to create infinite 2D platform terrain. I've read about perlin noise and I have an idea I'd like to illustrate below. However, I have no idea how to achieve this. Are there any ...
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Trace with 2D terrain

I currently have some 2D terrain in my game defined by 2D coordinates with lines drawn in between them (linear interpolation too keep it simple). Now I want to cast a ray from anywhere above the ...
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Non-GPU Noise for 2D side-view terrain generation?

I really couldn't find a correct answer while scowering all the forums for Noise Generation. My goal is simple, I really want to have two distinct layers for my terrain, a white layer representing ...
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2D Terrain Generation [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How can I create a random “world” in a tile engine? I need some advice as to how I should go about coding a 2D Terrain Generator for a game written in C. I ...
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Good practices to hold terrain data in a 2D networked game

I am working on a client-server architecture game, its a 2D top view adventure. My main focus for the map system right now is to have editable terrain, that will actually change in realtime to other ...
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Terrain Generation for Tile-Based 2D Platformer

I'm currently working on a tile-based 2D platformer similar to Terraria in some ways, although I'm having difficulty with the terrain generation. I have some basics done, although they do not come out ...
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How to create 2D game terrain?

Last month, I experimented a lot in game development using cocos2d for the iPhone, especially on moving and modifying sprites. However, vertices and polygons are still new stuff for me. I developed ...
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What's the most efficient way to find the intersection point of a missile and a bitmap terrain?

Following up on my earlier question about finding the slope of a 2D bitmap terrain I now need to know the best way of finding the point on the 2D terrain that the missile hit. Obviously, I can see if ...