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The Advanced Game Developer's Toolkit: Create Amazing Web-based Games with JavaScript and HTML5
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The Advanced Game Developer's Toolkit: Create Amazing Web-based Games with JavaScript and HTML5

by Rex van der Spuy
July 2017
Intermediate to advanced
193 pages
4h 46m
English
Apress
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© Rex van der Spuy 2017

Rex van der Spuy, The Advanced Game Developer's Toolkit, 10.1007/978-1-4842-1097-0_2

2. Using Tiled Editor

Rex van der Spuy1 

(1)Toronto, Ontario, Canada

If there’s only one piece of software that every game developer should learn how to use, it’s Tiled Editor (www.​mapeditor.​org). Tiled Editor is an industry-standard open source application that lets you easily create a visually complex layout, and then export that layout as a JSON data file that you use to build your game world. Because Tiled Editor just outputs data, it works just as well for making games with any technology, like C#, Java, or Objective-C, as it does for JavaScript. And it’s not just for games – you can use it whenever you need to design a complex layout ...

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