Tile Based Game Engines

Tile based game engines are incredible. With just a few different small rectangular tiles, a whole gaming world can be created. Currently, we are working on a tile based game engine in our game: Cross Country Running. The screen shots show how different base layers, fringe layers can be combined to create a beautiful and functional world.

Here are some documents and links that will help you create tile based games. The documents are not compiler or language specific (even though they do use some C/C++ code).

Reference Documents

tilefaq.txt - 33.2k

Tile-Based Games FAQ version 1.2 by Greg Taylor

tiletech.txt - 24.9k

Tile Graphics Techniques 1.0 by Jason McIntosh

Links

Amit's Game Programming Information

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