Programming 2D Games

10

Tiled Games

In this chapter, we examine tiled games. Tiled games play on a map comprised of individual

tiles. Each tile contains all or part of an image (see Figure 10.1). e tiles are arranged to

form the game world, or map, as we will refer to it (Figure 10.2).

Many of the “platform” games on the various game consoles use tiles. Tiled games

come in several forms including side scroll, top-down, and isometric view. We will begin by

examining the advantages of a tiled game. en we will explore how to create tile sets and

edit game maps. Lastly, we will see how to draw our tiled game screen in dierent ways. By

the end of this chapter, readers ...