Patterns of identical shapes (often squares or hexagons) that have no gaps. They usually represent the playfield in various games.
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1answer
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Problems implementing a Sign Sprite in Libgdx
I am making a tile based game in LibGdx. I am using the TiledMap in .tmx format. I want when my player reaches a tile whose property is set (tileType -> sign), he should see a Sign sprite and on ...
0
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1answer
82 views
How to implement tile enemies behavior? [closed]
I'm having a difficult time to understand , how to implement the behavior of an enemy in a tile based game,
movement
attack
behavior per enemy level ( higher level enemies should be hard to kill)
...
9
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3answers
312 views
Is it feasible for a Server to send nothing more than a tile-based area to a Client?
To start, I have a good amount of background in networking (hardware, routers, ex.) but very little knowledge past the basics of network programming. This may seem like a stupid question, but I want ...
1
vote
1answer
14 views
Seamless tiling with TexturePacker and Marmalade/IwGX
I'm looking for a way to get seamless tiling working, where the tiles are sprites off a TexturePacker sprite sheet, and the rendering is done with Marmalade's IwGX's streams. I also need to render the ...
0
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0answers
28 views
Android Dynamic 2D Map
My problem is, I want to create a 2D tiled map. Yes, I know it's been asked a lot. I've seen answers that propose the use of tiled however it only allows (or so it seems to me) to generate static maps ...
2
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3answers
785 views
Hide collision layer in libgdx with TiledMap?
I'm making a 2D game with libgdx, and I'm using its TileMapRenderer to render my map which I have made in the map editor Tiled. In Tiled I have a dedicated collision layer. However, I can't figure out ...
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0answers
23 views
Collisions using Tide editor and libgdx [duplicate]
Im starting using libgdx and the tide editor for maps. I have a doubt about defining the collisions of the tiles I draw on the editor. I would like to create tiled maps for a top down perspective ...
5
votes
4answers
208 views
Tile-based multiplayer game: server and client load
I'm developing a multiplayer tile-based game (imagine habbo) and having some trouble with the movement. The idea is to click on a tile (target tile) so your avatar moves there and everyone can see you ...
0
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1answer
89 views
Most practical isometric tile, or does it even matter? [closed]
I am asking for the most practical/convenient isometric tile. I have seen a lot of tiles, some like this (you have to zoom in somehow to see the pixels, sorry):
I know there are different types ...
20
votes
4answers
1k views
Is the Manhattan distance monotonic when used as heuristic function?
I have a square-based map. Only horizontal and vertical movement is allowed (no diagonals). Movement cost is always 1.
I'm implementing an A* algorithm on that map, using the Manhattan distance as a ...
3
votes
2answers
137 views
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 ...
0
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3answers
282 views
How to draw only visible tiles?
I have a big map with isometric tiles(3d camera), how can i draw only visible tiles ?
Whats the best way to do that ? space partitionning (octrees etc...)?
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votes
5answers
3k views
Designing a flexible tile-based engine
I'm trying to create a flexible tile-based game engine to make all sorts of non-realtime puzzle games, just as Bejeweled, Civilization, Sokoban, and so on.
The first approach I had was to have a 2D ...
4
votes
0answers
85 views
How can I achieve smooth shading / glow from one tile to another?
I've been working on a tile-based game in which some areas may be lit (currently seen), some may be black (never seen) and some may be dark (previously seen, but not currently seen).
Looking at the ...
1
vote
0answers
828 views
TileMapRenderer in libGDX not drawing anything
So I followed the tutorial on the libGDX wiki to draw Tiled maps but it doesn't seem to render anything.
Here's how I setup my OrthographicCamera and load the map:
camera = new ...
6
votes
2answers
163 views
Diagonal line of sight with two corners
Right now I'm using Bresenham's line algorithm for line of sight. The problem is I've found an edge case where players can look through walls. Occurs when the player looks between two corners of a ...
0
votes
1answer
55 views
Quick 3D sight calculation algorithm
I have a tile based board game where units move in 3D space on a 2D isometric view. When calculating attack tiles for a unit, how do I verify that they aren't shooting through a wall or a level too ...
0
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1answer
270 views
Scale DIV with tiles
I am trying to create a repeating background. I have a main DIV with a grid of small 16x16 DIVs. I am trying to scale the main DIV in CSS; when the small DIVs simply have a red background color ...
0
votes
1answer
65 views
How to store NPC movement data?
In my 2D tile-based game, I have NPCs that move around on a fixed path. I am putting the information about the NPCs in a .plist file that is loaded on startup. The thing is, I'm not sure how to format ...
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votes
1answer
60 views
Slick2D and TileD [closed]
I've been learning Java for a while, and with my aims of being a game developer later in life, I've came across Slick2D+lwjgl and following tutorials and making some little things. However; I don't ...
12
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2answers
5k views
Hexagonal grid/tiles tutorials
Are there any platform or language agnostic (preferably step by step) tutorials regarding creating hexagonal grid based maps/games? I'm mainly interested in grid/tiles basics and not advanced game ...
1
vote
2answers
556 views
Efficient collision detection - tile based HTML5/Javascript game
I'm building a basic RPG game and I'm looking at collisions/pickups etc now.
It's tile based and I'm using HTML5 and Javascript.
I use a 2D array to create my tilemap.
I'm currently using a switch ...
0
votes
2answers
132 views
Displaying possible movement tiles
What's the fastest way to highlight all possible movement tiles for a player on a square grid? Players can only move up, down, left, right. Tiles can cost more than one movement, multiple levels are ...
0
votes
0answers
35 views
Need help with collision with player and tiles XNA [closed]
I have a player collision with the rectangle size 16x32
and the tiles are in 16x16 sizes. I have a problem checking collision with player touching 2(or more) tiles ontop of each other.
My code works ...
1
vote
3answers
182 views
Splitting tileset into individual tiles
I'm trying to split a tileset (from here) into individual tiles.
For debugging purposes I wrote some code to split the tileset into individual tiles and display them on screen, but some aren't being ...
1
vote
3answers
527 views
Collision Detection Problems
So I'm making a 2D tile based game but I can't quite get the collisions working properly. I've taken the code from the Platformer Sample and implemented it into my game as seen below.
One problem I'm ...
2
votes
1answer
90 views
Get average tile color
In my 2D game I have TileSet class that loads the texture and creates Rectangle[] array which stores each tile coordinates. Pretty basic stuff. Now I'd like to also calculate and store the average ...
0
votes
0answers
69 views
Why does Slick import Tiled object rectangles without width, height, and name tags?
I tried using Tiled rectangle objects as walls with Slick's TiledMapPlus class, but as I soon realized that each GroupObject would return 0 for width and height. The code I used looks like this:
...
0
votes
0answers
146 views
2D tile-based collision: avoid tunneling
We have a box that tries to move from A to B. In order to avoid tunneling we need to check if there is a collision in the path described by its four corners.
Let's focus on the bottom-right corner of ...
2
votes
1answer
160 views
How to know the boundaries of an isometric tile?
In a 4x4 square tile, it's easy to know which pixels are inside the tile's boundaries. I know immediately that the 4th vertical pixel is supposed to be drawn but the 5th isn't.
However, on a ...
2
votes
2answers
276 views
Implementing tile-based movement on 2D platformer
I'm trying to make a cinematic platformer, in the veins of the first two Oddworld games, Flashback, Prince of Persia, Blackthorne and so on. This article describes very well how this kind of movement ...
0
votes
3answers
219 views
How to create levels (tile maps) [closed]
I am new to game programming and I am having so much hard time learn on my own. My goal is to make a game with different levels.
so far my plan:
i have 2 classes
1 - main.java
2 - level_01.java
3 ...
1
vote
1answer
109 views
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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votes
1answer
203 views
Tile engine Texture not updating when numbers in array change
I draw my map from a txt file. I am using java with slick2d library. When I print the array the number changes in the array, but the texture doesn't change.
public class Tiles {
public Image[] tiles ...
1
vote
1answer
179 views
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);
...
0
votes
1answer
148 views
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 ...
1
vote
1answer
329 views
How to render a tilemap efficiently? [duplicate]
I'm using this code to load a tiled map, composed of 1000x1000 32x32px tiles:
map = new TmxMapLoader().load("levels/xyz.tmx");
camera = new OrthographicCamera();
camera.setToOrtho(false, ...
66
votes
8answers
14k views
How do you generate tileable Perlin noise?
Related:
Simple noise generation
Understanding Perlin Noise
I'd like to generate tileable Perlin noise. I'm working from Paul Bourke's PerlinNoise*() functions, which are like this:
// alpha is ...
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votes
1answer
190 views
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 ...
3
votes
1answer
1k views
How to create a 3D world with 2D sprites similar to Ragnorak online?
As far as I know Ragnorak Online is a 3D game world with 2D sprites overlayed. I would like to use this style in a game I am making in Unity, so I would like the player to be able to select little ...
-1
votes
2answers
463 views
How to make a map [closed]
For school my group and I are going to make a 2d turn based strategy game on android.
We are trying to make a simple version of Advanced Wars(screenshot1 Gameplay).
But we don't really know how to ...
1
vote
0answers
72 views
How do I make a custom tileset for Flixel that supports autotiling?
I've been Googling this problem for a while now. I'm currently porting one of my Java games to Flixel, and I want to use the original 16x16 tileset I made. In the original game I implemented my own ...
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votes
2answers
222 views
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 ...
1
vote
1answer
233 views
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
...
19
votes
1answer
894 views
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 ...
2
votes
1answer
48 views
pytmx: issue trying to get the correct texture rectangle for sprite for objetcs on map
:D Hello :D
I am currently developing a game engine. I'm using maps designed with Tiled and I placed several objects on a test map to develop the feature of loading objects as sprites/entities and ...
0
votes
1answer
160 views
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 ...
1
vote
3answers
175 views
XNA seams between 3d primitives in tiled terrain
Every time I draw two primitives side by side, in this case two quads, I always get this seam-like tearing effect right along the sides of them. I'd like to think there is just an easy fix, but the ...
-2
votes
3answers
493 views
Does Unity support 2D tiles/blocks? [closed]
I'm working on an XNA isometric game and I've already done lot of work. Since
XNA is going to be discontinued, I'm not sure if I should change engines or not. So I'm looking into alternatives.
I'm ...
1
vote
4answers
920 views
Tile-based maps in AS3
I want to make a tile-based platformer in AS3.
I want my game to read an external maps file (in xml or json or somethimg similar) to draw a tile-based map.
I've seen loads of tutorials for this in ...
