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Tile map is a technique of re-using small graphic pieces, tiles, over and over again to shape the game field.

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Cocos2d savegame cctmxtiledmap

my game features several tilemaps that are initially loaded from a tmx file and modified during gameplay. How can I save the changed tilemaps in a save game? Will NSCoding do the trick here or is the ...
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What can i use as a 3d Tile map editor?

I need to make grid based levels with 3d models for a dungeon crawler ( as a recent example Legend of Grimrock), but i need to have several layers and place entities with properties and position, ...
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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 implement fog of war in a tile-based game?

I have created a 2D Tile Based game. The game has a single path that the sprite can move on. I want to create to make the entire screen black except for where the sprite is. The sprite has commands ...
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Tilemap collision in component based entity system

I am trying to set up a collision system for a tilemap in my component based entity system, but having trouble with figuring out how to do so. Currently I have the following approach: My tilemap ...
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How to attach a sprite to a TMXTiledMap at a particular coordinate, in AndEngine?

I am trying to add a sprite at a "grid" location on the tiled map. The TMX tiled Map is like a grid, and you can access the size of the grid by calling mTMXtiledMap.getTileRows() and ...
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Tile-Based Platformer Infinite Terrain Generation

I'm using the LÖVE game engine (which uses Lua). My terrain generation works good. But I'm planning to make the terrain generate as the player walks so that the terrain will be infinite size. I'm ...
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How do I eliminate black bar artifacts in AndEngine/TMX plugin?

I used AndEngine gles1 along with the tmx plugin to generate my background maps. The image width is not fit to my virtual device, so I increased the tmx image size. Here is my code for the camera ...
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best structure to handle entities in an entity component based game engine

I am trying to develop a 2D entity component based game with multiple layers as tilemaps (front or back from the scene). I currently handle the tilemap layers in a 3 dimension array[z][y][x]. Each ...
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How to animate the Tilemap object in Libgdx? [closed]

I am facing problem to animate or move the object(Cell) of Tilemap??? Is there any solution for this???
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Working principle of an RPG map

I am currently thinking of building a basic browser-based 2D(that would eventually become 2.5D) RPG. I have planned everything and I think that would be able to accomplish the current goals, but it ...
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3D models on 2D tilemap perspective when scrolling

I am creating a small top-down game, where the player traverses a 2D tilemap, with an illusion of depth provided by 3D models for things like buildings or trees. Having gotten to the point where I ...
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How to manage multiple objects for a tile based game for collision?

So I'm making the tile-based 2D sandbox platformer...thing to get an idea of how to manage different elements of coding games. Currently I'm at the point where my collision system works fine for a ...
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Joining multiple tile-based maps in java [duplicate]

I'm currently developing a 2d mmorpg tile game, I've made a basic map system, and managed to get the map to scroll whilst keeping the player at the center of the screen. I am however completely ...
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Xna problem drawing tIDE map

So i was trying to add tIDE to my project but i hit a Keyntfoundexception map.Draw(mapDisplayDevice, viewport); Any help would be usefull here is the rest of the class: using System; using ...
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Help developing grid maps

I have been working with Tiled and Cocos2d lately but am having problems understanding how Im suppose to be doing the maps. Tiled is not an image editor, so I create my tileset in Gimp. However it ...
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Touch Gesture Map Movement

I really dig the way that the map is moved in Clash of Clans (https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/clash-of-clans/id529479190?mt=8)... I can recognize the pinch and finger movement needed for the zooming ...
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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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Tiled map seen from an angle

I have working code to display a tiled map. It's composed of a OrthogonalTiledMapRenderer and an OrthoGraphicCamera : camera.setToOrtho(false, WORLD_WINDOW_SIZE.x, WORLD_WINDOW_SIZE.y); ...
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Creating a BufferedImage with several smaller images?

I am making a 2D tile based game. The tiles render fine from a spritesheet and a text file. However, I am using a for loop to draw the map to the screen. When it refreshes, it slows down the loop, and ...
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Building placement in tilemaps (pattern matching)

I'm building a small rts and in my code I have given my buildings a pattern, much like you would pieces in tetris. In other words I want to place irregular shaped buildings on a map without buildings ...
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Creating and connecting rooms for a roguelike

I'm creating a Roguelike and I'm having constant troubles with map generation, it's just something I have a lot of difficulty wrapping my head around. I currently have my map as a 50x50 square of ...
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Should I load a game map as a tile map or as an image map? [closed]

Which is better for game prototyping of a game map: a tile map or an image map? What are their respective pros and cons? Should I, in other words: Load the map as a png and set collision points ...
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Move a 2D sprite into an irregular terrain

With a tile based engine, in my knowledge, is not possible to move a sprite into an irregular terrain. So which are the techniques to use for implementing that? Maybe an hexagonal tile based engine?
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How can I draw a map that is stored in arrays [closed]

I have spent over 12 hours with no avail trying to successfully draw my map. The map is stored in an array called Tiles[]. Each value in Tiles can either be 4 numbers: Grass Stone Water Void (EMPTY ...
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Custom Content Pipeline with Automatic Serialization Load Error

I'm running into this error: Error loading "desert". Cannot find type TiledLib.MapContent, TiledLib, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null. at ...
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Difference between “staggered” isometric and “normal” isometric tilemaps?

The Tiled Map Editor v0.9 recently added support for staggered tilemaps in addition to its usual isometric tilemap support. What are the exact technical differences between these two types of ...
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SFML tmx map loader for isometric view

To load a tmx map in SFML which way will be flexible and optimal , use sfml maploader to load the map (http://sourceforge.net/projects/tiledsfmlloader/) or use tmx parser and then load it into SFML . ...
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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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Torque2D createTileLayer

The script reference "manual" is not much of a help. When I look up createTileLayer(tileCountX/tileCountY/tileSizeX/tileSizeY) it doesn't say more than it creates a new TileLayer. But, in what unit ...
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Torque2D, Class vs Datablock

I'm scripting my first game with Torque2D and have not fully understood the difference between "Class" and Datablock. To me it seems like Datablock is similar to a struct in C/C++ or a Record in ...
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Did old games like Golden Axe or Street or Rage use tilemaps? [closed]

I am wondering if old games like Golden Axe (genesis) or street of Rage (genesis) used tilemaps or background bitmaps for the levels. I could not find any resource that explain this and searching ...
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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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Where can I find a chess tileset? [closed]

I can't seem to find a chess tileset! Not even a bad one. I've looked in a few places but can only find chess pieces arbitrarily sized
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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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Looking for an elegant way to represent fixed parts of a randomly generated level map

I'm coding from scratch a small experimental game on a medium-sized random rectangular square tile map. (Say, a map of a dungeon.) There are several types of tiles (for example: floor, wall, monster, ...
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Road / river generation on 2d grid map

This is a newbie question, but here it goes: My map is a 2d grid, and I want to generate roads and rivers. The route from the starting to ending point must not be the optimal route in number of ...
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2D tilemap editor UI--how do I disable editing while save/load dialog is open?

I'm working on a basic 2D tilemap editor in C#/XNA. Currently, it displays the map through a picturebox through which XNA's output is being routed, and editing is accomplished through simply checking ...
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Isometric Tile maps in Cocos2d-x

Is there an specific isometric tile map handler in cocos2d-x? I can't find any.
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XNA C# Platformer - physics engine or tile based?

I would like to get some opinions on whether i should develop my game using a physics engine (farseer physics seems to be the best option) or follow the traditional tile-based method. Quick ...
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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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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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Elegant autotiling

I'm looking for information about how people implement autotiling in their tile-based games. So far I have always improvised it with a bunch of hardcoded "if ... else ..." statements, and now I ...
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Find connected hex of same color

I'm using Lua. I have a hex map. It is randomly generated into an table. hexmap[y][x].color = "red" I wish to find each "group" of hex's. i.e. all hex's of the same color that connect to each other ...
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Change the tilemap shown on stage in Flixel

I am building a simple platformer using Flixel, beginning with the source code from Flixel creator's EZPlatformer . I would like to adjust the level's tilemap when the player sprite enters/overlaps ...
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3d js map rendering

In the past I've done a 2D tile map using HTML, CSS and Javascript. Now I have the task of creating a 3D version using the same technologies - think of it like a space map where all planets have x/y/z ...
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Flixel level ceases to show on screen

I was following along with the EZPlatformer flixel tutorial(with some of my own modifications), and suddenly find that my level is not appearing on screen. I am unable to detect any changes I could ...
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How can I implement collision detection for these tiles?

I am wondering how this would be possible, if at all. In the image below: The light brows tiles are ground, while the dark brown is background, so the player can pass over those tiles. Here's the ...
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Problem displaying tiles using tiled map loader with SFML

I've been searching fruitlessly for what I did wrong for the past couple of days and I was wondering if anyone here could help me. My program loads my tile map, but then crashes with an assertion ...
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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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