Beginner Question about game design: Why use Tiles?

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BarryB

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Posted: 7th Oct 2003 14:46

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Hi,
I want to create a platform game.
It's not commericial and the memory/speed requirements are small.
Is there any reason I should use tiles for creating the background/foreground objects instead of images?

I though it may be just to same memory?

Are there any other advantages/reasons?

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Pincho Paxton

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Posted: 7th Oct 2003 16:06

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The idea of tiles is that they are repeatable. They are jigsaw pieces that can be used more than once. A full screen of grass can be made from 1 tile 32*32 pixels in size. That's low memory, and small download. You can use full screen pictures if you want, most of these game tiles come from the days when computers had low memory.

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ESC_

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Posted: 7th Oct 2003 16:11

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Yeah, as Pincho said, it's much smaller, but it also allows for easy collision and editing, since you don;t have to re-edit the image, and recode the collision every time you want to change a little detail

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BarryB

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Posted: 7th Oct 2003 18:11

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Thanks Guys, That's clears up a few misconceptions I had.

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Erusuwasu

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Posted: 12th Oct 2003 09:43

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Does anyone have a complete code snippet which shows how tiles work? Or know of a good tutorial where I can learn. I get the concept, but I'm not quite sure how to put it together in code? Thankyou for any help