Patterns of identical shapes (often squares or hexagons) that have no gaps. They usually represent the playfield in various games.
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Isometric rendering and picking?
I've been looking for a formula to plot (world->screen) and mouse pick (world->screen) isometric tiles in a diamond-shaped world.
The ones I've tried always seem to be, well, off.
What's the ...
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How can I create a random “world” in a tile engine?
I am designing a game that is working on a classic tile engine, but whose world is generated randomly. Are there existing games or algorithms that do this?
The procedural generation algorithms I have ...
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What is a good technique for 2D tile-based terrain generation meeting these requirements?
As a summer project I decided it would be fun to make a Flash game. Right now I'm going for something like the look of Terraria. It's been a lot of fun, but today I've hit a snag. I need a way to ...
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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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Random map generation
I'm starting/started a 2D tilemap RPG game in Java and I want to implement random map generation. I have a list of different tiles, (dirt/sand/stone/grass/gravel etc) along with water tiles and path ...
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Finding out which tile a mouse click landed in
I am working on an isometric grid based game and im having an issue trying to link a mouse click from the user to a tile. I have been able to split the problem into 2 parts :
Finding a rectangle ...
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How do I prevent my platformer's character from clipping on wall tiles?
Currently, I have a platformer with tiles for terrain (graphics borrowed from Cave Story). The game is written from scratch using XNA, so I'm not using an existing engine or physics engine.
The tile ...
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5answers
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How to create a hexagon world map in PHP from a database for a browser based strategy game
I'm trying to create a hexagon world map for my PHP browser based strategy game. I've created a table in my database with the following data per row: id, type, x, y and occupied. Where type is the ...
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Best Way to Create A Map for a 2D Game?
I apologize for the subjective "best" keyword.
My friend and I have started creation of a 2D adventure game. It will be top-down in the style of pokemon or zelda (just the perspective). We have been ...
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2D Level design/editing/saving questions
I thought about making a simple 2D Sidescroller game like SuperMario.
Then i wondered about how to save, load or create the levels for the game. The first thing i thought of was drawing a simple ...
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Best technique for drawing isometric tiles
I'm thinking about making a simple isometric game with HTML5 Canvas, and wondering what's the fastest way to render the tiles.
Since the tiles are diamond shaped, but drawImage draws rectangles, I ...
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2answers
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'Zoning' up areas on a large tile map, as well as dungeons
My game is having a map like that of Minecraft, in the way it's pseudoinfinite and randomly generated. And big. Say the user has explored a 1000x1000 zone (2D here), so that's 1,000,000 tiles.
...
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2D Top down view maps
I was wondering how this works.
Do you load the complete map when the game starts up, or do you load parts of the map at runtime?
And how would you save the maps? Would it be in XML or some binary ...
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How to Create a Grid for a 2D Game?
So I'm currently writing the engine for my videogame. I've almost integrated Tiled (I think) so I should have a map-creator here soon.
My question is, how do I actually make the grid? I'm really ...
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2answers
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Making a symbol appear on any colour
I'm developing an RPG/roguelike-style game. Instead of having maps like:
.........
.........
....@....
...h.....
Oh look, a dwarf.
I was having solid background tiles, So sort of a tile based RPG ...
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Repeat texture in libgdx
How to fill region with repeated texture? Now I'm using next method:
spriteBatch.begin();
final int tWidth = texture.getWidth();
final int tHeight = texture.getHeight();
for (int i = 0; i < ...
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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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Random seed function for map generation?
I am looking for a function to generate a random tile-based map as the visual boundaries of the map change (by going through the map). I want the map to be infinitely large, and have maze-like ...
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2answers
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How to create tilted (height) isometric tiles
This is perhaps best explained pictorially. I am trying to create a 2.5D isometric game. My vision is for the game to look something like my goal:
I am not a graphics artist, so I'm having some ...
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3answers
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Whole map design vs. tiles array design
I am working on a 2D RPG, which will feature the usual dungeon/town maps (pre-generated).
I am using tiles, that I will then combine to make the maps. My original plan was to assemble the tiles using ...
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2answers
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How do I tackle top down RPG movement?
I have a game that I am writing in Java. It is a top down RPG and I am trying to handle movement in the world. The world is largely procedural and I am having a difficult time tackling how to handle ...
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2answers
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How should I represent a tile in OpenGL-es
Let me start with I am currently learning OpenGl-es using Android.
I have been having the hardest time trying to design a simple and logical way of making tiles (2d flat polygons). The tutorials tell ...
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2answers
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Projectiles in tile mapped turn-based tactics game?
I am planning to make a Laser Squad clone and I think I have most of the aspects covered. But the major headache is the projectiles shot/thrown.
The easy way would be to figure out the probability of ...
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2answers
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How do I get the distance between 2 points on an isometric grid?
How do I get the distance between 2 points on an isometric grid? I'm creating a facebook isometric game (in as3), and when I move around a particular type of building, I need to know if it comes ...
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5answers
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Alternative to 2D array in a tiled-map structure
After searching for a long time, I'm surprised this question was not asked yet. In a 2D, tiled-map game, how do you handle the map ? I'd be glad to have your point of view in any languages, though I'm ...
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3answers
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Rendering tiles on 3/4 perspective
Using a 3/4th perspective, I'm trying to create a way to render cliffs where nothing is overlapped, and it creates an accurate representation of the elevation.
This is a rough mockup of how it might ...
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2answers
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Container classes in tile-based games.
I've recently begun working on a tile-based tactical game, and I have questions regarding a couple of key moments.
Is it feasible to organize the tilemap as an array of containers, which can hold the ...
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2answers
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Collision Detection, player correction
I am having some problems with collision detection, I have 2 types of objects excluding the player. Tiles and what I call MapObjects. The tiles are all 16x16, where the MapObjects can be any size, but ...
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1answer
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Tile coordinates
Simple question I have here.
Say my tile map is based on 32x32 tiles for an 800x600 image so let's say 25 tiles across and 19 down.
So now I have that cell 0 of any row contains the first 0-31 ...
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1answer
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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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3answers
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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 ...
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2answers
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How can I efficiently store tilemaps in work memory?
I've been working on different tile-based projects, but never really bothered with being efficient memory-wise. Each tile was represented by a tile class which would hold the following:
X and Y ID ...
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What is a good flat file format for storing a 2D tile map that can grow infinitely in any direction?
I am creating a simple map engine that will automatically expand in any direction with procedurally-generated content as needed.
What is a good way to store map data, anchored at a 0,0 origin so that ...
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4answers
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Tile editor for flash based games?
I am trying to make the age-old version of pacman. And only then that I realized that I need to spend a heck lot of time for making the tile matrix itself. It gets messy more and more.
I've also ...
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3answers
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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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2answers
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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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2answers
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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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2answers
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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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2answers
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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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1answer
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How can I change the path a sprite is following in real time?
Is there a common way to implement a character following path that is issued and replaced in real time?
For example: the character follows a path issued, and while it's on that path, if a new path is ...
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vote
2answers
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2d very large tile based game, zoom and pan considerations
what's a sensible way of implementing zoom and panning for my game?
each tile is very large, 100,000 x 100,000 pixels, with some objects possibly being only a single pixel at maximum zoom (small ...
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2answers
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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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2answers
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How to calculate the direction a ball must bounce
I have a tile engine I have made. I can detect collision between the ball(the player) and the tiles. When a collision is detected all the colliding tiles are stored inside a list. My question now is, ...
