CHAPTER 12

Building the Level 1 Maze

This chapter covers the creation of the maze for Level 1 of DotGame. You’ll start by drawing tiles in GIMP, followed by importing them into the Unity project for DotGame. You’ll then test them by building a maze using your tiles and a placeholder character around in the maze. You won’t have real gameplay yet. Instead, you’ll develop the initial look and feel of the game.

Using GIMP to Make Tiles for Level 1

You learned how to make tiles in the previous chapter. Now you’ll put this knowledge to use by creating the tiles for a simple maze for Level 1. This isn’t necessarily going to be the first level in the final game but just a simple level to get you started.

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