[gameprogrammer] Re: Tile RPG??

Hi Daniel,

Have you ever noticed how in some RPG's you can see that the map is made up
of different squares of art?

IE they have 1 square that looks like metal grating lets say and they just
use the same square peice of art over and over to draw a walk way or maybe
they have a square that looks like sand and they put it down wherever they
want sand.

Thats what they mean by tiles (:

A simple tile system would be imagine we had a 2d array 5x5 with some values
in it like this:

***R*
***R*
***R*
*=RR*
*****

that essentialy represents our game's map.  You can kind of see how it can
be a map already.

Now, Imagine that wherever you see a '*', replace that mentaly with a square
of grass.  Wherever to you see an 'R', replace that with something that
looks like a dirt path.  Where you see the '=', replace that with a well.

Now, instead of just having a 2d array, we have a dirt path in the grass
leading to a well, and we used 3 different 'Tiles' on our map.

Does that make sense?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Daniel Greeson" <thecrow815@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <gameprogrammer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2004 10:44 AM
Subject: [gameprogrammer] Tile RPG??


> I am new at programming and really have a desire and creative mind for
game programmingand I was looking at a resource that has a tutorial at
making a Tile RPG with VB.  What does the tile mean?  just the way the
graphics are designed or what?  I know about all the different game types as
far as rpg, action, strategy, adventure, puzzle, etc.. but what is some of
the other differences of design.  I apologise to those who this question is
to basic of their experience.  God Bless
>
> ~just a trying programmer in the dark~
> ~Draven~
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