Patterns of identical shapes (often squares or hexagons) that have no gaps. They usually represent the playfield in various games.
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More smaller maps among which player can travel
I am developing 2d game, where maps are tile based, small about 20x20 tiles and player can travel between a lot of maps (in my game rooms) like this. The maps are connected sometimes verticaly and ...
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Flash AS3 sidescrolling tiles optimization
I'm trying to make a sidescrolling game in Flash that will run on a low performance laptop.
While studying the subject from Tonypa I saw that he builds a Bitmap by making copys of the BitmapData of ...
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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 ...
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Keeping player aligned to grid in Pacman
I am making a Pacman game using XNA. The game is tile based, with each tile being 32 pixels. As the player moves, I need to know whenever it is perfectly on a tile (ie position of 32, 64, etc...) so ...
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Tile based platformer, using larger tiles?
So for my tile based platformer, It has a grid of tiles Occupying 1x1 block for each one.
However, What if I want larger tiles? Maybe doors, tables, etc. They wouldnt fit in a 1x1 tile, so what I ...
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create a simple tilemap programatically
i am working on a tile roguelike
i got some of the basics working using this tutorial
http://www.raywenderlich.com/1163/how-to-make-a-tile-based-game-with-cocos2d
but i want to be able to create a ...
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Slick2D Isometric TiledMap Rendering Problem
I created a Tiled Map using the Tiled Map Editor. In the Editor it looks like this:
Desired State
In my java program it looks like this:
Actual State
My java code is:
public class Game extends ...
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Canvas tile grid, hover effects, single tilesheet, etc
I'm currently in the process of building both the client and server side of an HTML5, canvas, and WebSocket game.
This is what I have thus far for the client: http://jsfiddle.net/dDmTf/20/
Current ...
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How to calculate FOV with four-walled tiles?
I'm working on a 2D tile-based game. I'm trying to calculate FOV and I've implemented walls so they don't take up an entire tile. Instead, they just take up a side of each tile. Similar to:
class ...
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Tiled game: how to correct load background image?
i'm a newbie. I'm trying to develop a 2d game (top-down view).
I would like to load a standard background, a textured ground... My "world" is big, for example 3000px X 3000px.
I think it is not a ...
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Coordinates on the top left corner or center of the tile
I'm setting up a tile system where every tile has x and y coordinates. Right now I assume that the top left corner of the tile is positioned on it's coordinate on the screen, x = tileX * tileWidth and ...
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Implementing a tile-based game
Which data structure should be best used to store a pile of tiles from which a player can pick a random tile?
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What is the best practice to move sprites using mouse order in Tile games?
I am trying to make my first Tile-game using XNA. I have no problem drawing the map layers using TiledLib from codeplex, but, now I want to give sprite an (order) to move to a specific position on ...
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Problem with Ogmo Editor (is Tiled Editor a solution?)
I made a level editor for a puzzle game with Ogmo Editor and gave it to our designer/level designer. When he downloaded and started Ogmo, his CPU went to 100%. I looked at my CPU usage while Ogmo is ...
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Character jittering with this tile based collision code
I have been trying to get my collision code working for hours now but with every resource I have tried my character still jitters. First I tried using the platformer sample but my character still ...
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Storing large layered tilemap
My game consists largely of "sea" tiles with sections of tiles that form "islands". The sea tiles are all exactly the time.
The map itself is pretty large and only going to get larger. I'm trying to ...
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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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Generating background tiles for a side-scroller with variable player speed
I'm currently working on a side-scroller which lets the player alter their speed and I wondered how should I properly generate and control background tiles for such a kind o game. I'm using Flixel but ...
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2D Tile-based Collision Detection
I've been planning an indie game project for a while now. I'll summarise it for you so I can get right to the question.
It's done entirely using the latest version of XNA through Visual Studio. ...
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3answers
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Getting isometric grid coordinates from standard X,Y coordinates
I'm currently trying to add sprites to an isometric Tiled TMX map using Objects in cocos2d. The problem is the X and Y metadata from TMX object are in standard 2d format (pixels x, pixels y), instead ...
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Loading and unloading “chunks” of tiles in a 2d tile engine with 2d camera
I am making a 2d tile based game in C# and XNA 4.0. I am having trouble loading and unloading "chunks" of tiles(blocks). The whole world is randomly generated and is infinate on both axis. How would I ...
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How do I make magenta in my PNG transparent in HTML5/Canvas/JS?
I'm putting together a simple hex map to use within an HTML5 / Canvas / JS game and before I get round to sorting any custom graphics, I was wondering if anybody knew how to make the pink/magenta ...
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Tile based map and collision; getting stuck
I'm trying to make my character move around a tile map with collisions. Everything works fine except for one thing. I show you a picture with the problem:
http://i.stack.imgur.com/ZWI7x.jpg
That is, ...
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How to stack units in a tile based game?
I'm trying to make it so that no more than 5 units can be stacked on a tile. I have a Tile class that creates each tile's preferences. Should I store the units in an array or arraylist in this class?
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How to store “chunks” of tiles or How to make my implementation work
I asked a previous question about the loading and unload of chunk data and people noted that my way of storing chunks is weird and I was wondering how I would go about doing it properly. @Byte56 ...
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Which platform and what strategies can I use
There's this game, that I've been wanting to make for quite some time. It's a project that I've started and had to abandon in the middle a couple of times. However, this time I'm determined to finish ...
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Tile based isometric depth sorting on different size objects.
I am creating a tile based isometric game.
The problem we are having is with depth sorting, we tried a lot of methods but none work.
They all do a great job but its not perfect, they seem to bug ...
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3answers
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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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2answers
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Path finding in grid for objects that occupy more than one tile
In a grid-based game I am working on, I want to add objects that occupy more than one tile of the grid. Are there any algorithms or techniques to find paths for this kind of objects?
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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 ...
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How create a respawn area in a tiled map
I'm creating a RPG game, I need to create a monster respawn area like the Pokemon games where if I walk through the long grass areas a Pokemon can appear. I already created the battle scene, I've seen ...
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What should I use (controls, methods) to make a 2D tile based map editor?
I'm making a 2d game where each tile is a square and it's viewed at straight angle, no skewing, no rotation, it's pretty simple.
Two weeks ago I tried using DataGridView, but as the number of rows ...
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2D Camera Acceleration/Lag
I have a nice camera set up for my 2D xna game. Im wondering how I should make the camera have 'acceleration' or 'lag' so it smoothly follows the player, instead of 'exactly' like mine does now. Im ...
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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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Calculating the number of tiles shown on an isometric map
I'm currently changing an existing computer game from a top-down view to an isometric view. The map consists of an infinite number of tiles. Only the tiles which are currently visible in the players ...
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Java tilemap not working, Think it has something to do with my image rendering
Hey can someone help me out, I've been trying to fix this for about 2 hours now, and I'm a noob when it comes to game programming and Java(only been reading and programming with it for a week now, ...
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Stitch a collection of images into a tileset
I have a number of tiles as standalone files that I would like to stitch together into a single tileset. Are there any tools that can quickly do this?
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2answers
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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 ...
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How to handle slopes/bridges in a 2d grid turn based strategy game [duplicate]
I was wondering about the following:
In a 2D turn-based strategy game (using some grid(i.e. tiles, isometric hexagons) as movement), what techniques do they use to determine where a character moves ...
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Non-square Isometric tiled maps
I'm beginning to make a tile-based 4x game, but I ran into a conceptual issue: My inspiration for this game are the Civilization games, particularly Civ 2, and I noticed something I was interested in ...
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Collision detection problems - Javascript/Canvas game
What I want to do:
I simply want the have a 2D array to represent my game map.
I want a player sprite and I want that sprite to be able to move around my map freely using the keyboard and also have ...
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Java - 2d Array Tile Map Collision
How would I go about making certain tiles in my array collide with my player? Like say I want every number 2 in the array to collide. I am reading my array from a txt file if that matters and I am ...
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How do I find which isometric tiles are inside the cameras current view?
I'm putting together an isometric engine and need to cull the tiles that aren't in the camera's current view. My tile coordinates go from left to right on the X and top to bottom on the Y with (0,0) ...
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tiled map - changing textures? (XNA HLSL)
I have successfully created a tiled map of various textures. Right now, i had a Vector4 in my own custom Vertex declaration deciding what texture each of the tiles should be. This is working ...
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Best method for 2 layer tile based map scrolling
What is the best general approach to implement scrolling for a 2D tile based game?
I need to scroll the map with a constant speed, lets say 2 pixels every frame (like in a top down shooter).
The ...
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Cocos2d+pybox2d vs Cocos2d-Iphone
Myself and two colleagues are working on making our first indie game for PC and, we decided to use Cocos2D + PyBox2D. We decided this based on what we've seen of Cocos2D-iPhone games, but I'm not ...
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Storing Tiled Level Data in J2ME game
I'm developing a J2ME game which uses tiled backgrounds for the levels. My question is how do I store this tile information in my game. At the moment it is stored as an array; with each number ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Collision detection with XNA and TiledLib
I recently started learning XNA and after getting annoyed with creating individuals rectangles each time I wanted to add something I went with TiledLib so I could more easily create levels using the ...
