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are most 2D games tille based? [closed]

So I'm beginning the planing phase for a 2D game that I hope to deploy for iPhone, Android, and maybe windows phone, and I am writing it in Cocos2DX and I'm looking around for map editors that I could ...
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Is caching tiles like this a good idea?

I have a 2d int array which represents tiles on level like this: 0000000000000000000000 0000000000000000000000 0000000000000000000000 1111111111111111111111 I have a tileset vector, where each ...
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How to display height information in tilemap

I want to create a hexagonal tilemap and show regions of different height in the same screen. What ways can you think about to indicate which height a tile is on. (current, lower, higher?) Several ...
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Pygame 2D Scrolling Map

I have currently a pygame program that stores tiles in a 2d list like [[1,1,1] [1,1,1] [1,1,1]] where the 1 is a tile object. I have the character centered in the middle of the screen, and I am ...
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Tilemap collision detection strangeness [closed]

I have used this code, or code very similar to it, to detect collisions between rectangle shaped entities and a tilemap for a long time. When I read the code it seems to me that it is impossible for ...
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Labeling Areas on a map

I've been wondering how you would go about labeling an area on a 2D tile map. What I'd like to do is associate tiles with an area i.e Forest Area, Desert Area, etc. Keep in mind this is an idea, so ...
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Storing huge 2D tiled map in a txt file

I'm working on a global startegy game that uses a 2D tiled map. The map is to be 8000x8000 tiles large (this size is fixed, the map stays the way it is throughout the game), since I'm covering a large ...
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How do I cap rendering of tiles in a 2D game with SDL?

I have some boilerplate code working, I basically have a tile based map composed of just 3 colors, and some walls and render with SDL. The tiles are in a bmp file, but each tile inside it corresponds ...
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isometric drawing order with larger than single tile images - drawing order algorithm?

I have an isometric map over which I place various images. Most images will fit over a single tile, but some images are slightly larger. For example, I have a bed of size 2x3 tiles. This creates a ...
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Is it possible to map mouse coordinates to isometric tiles with this coordinate system?

I'm trying to implement mouse interaction in a 2D isometric game, but I'm not sure if it's possible given the coordinate system used for tile maps in the game. I've read some helpful things like ...
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Compressing 2D level data

So, I'm developing a 2D, tile based game and a map maker thingy - all in Java. The problem is that recently I've been having some memory issues when about 4 maps are loaded. Each one of these maps ...
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Optimization and Saving/Loading

I'm developing a 2D tile based game and I have a few questions regarding it. First I would like to know if this is the correct way to structure my Tile class: namespace TileGame.Engine { public ...
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Google maps layer for strategic game

I found one web site http://e-sim.org/googleMap.html which is similar to my game idea. But I have no experience on game maps developing. Can anyone share ideas how to make similar functionality like ...
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How to properly scroll a 2D tilemap?

Hello and I'm trying to make my own game engine in Java. I have completed all the necessary ones but I can't figure it out with the TileGame class. It just can't scroll. Also there are no exceptions. ...
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improve Collision detection memory usage (blocks with bullets)

i am making a action platform 2D game, something like Megaman. I am using XNA to make it. already made player phisics,collisions, bullets, enemies and AIs, map editor, scorolling X Y camera (about 75% ...
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2D side scroller - How to implement X/Y movement?

I'm currently writing a small 2D, side-scroller-ish kind of game. I have a simple camera that follows the player around and the physics are ready. I'm using 32x32 tiles that build out the world, ...
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Best Method to Simulate Height in a Tiled Top-Down Game

What is the best method to simulate height for a top-down tiled 2D game? One way I thought was to make tiles which are supposed to be higher brighter, but I was wondering if there was a standard or ...
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How do I handle specific tile/object collisions?

What do I do after the bounding box test against a tile to determine whether there is a real collision against the contents of that tile? And if there is, how should I move the object in response to ...
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Java 2D Tile Map and Moving Sprites with threads

I'm having difficulties understanding how to use threads and I'm not sure if my basic structure is right. This is my Board Class: package mortifera; import java.awt.Color; import java.awt.Graphics; ...
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[2D] Finding largest possible straight lines around body

I've got a 2D-map, largely consisting of rectangular tiles, but with some none-rectangular objects mixed in as well (tilted lines on corners for example). Take this image as an example: I now ...