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When the character enters another part of the 'world' you could swap the tile-sheet with a different one (eg. As mentioned previously, this should not be necessary as you'll probably be able to keep the tile-sheet in memory. I suggest you avoid loading bits of the map during gameplay to prevent lag.

Last but not least, a tile-based map is also much easier to edit and tweak later on because you can always fire up the editor, change some things and save a new data-file.

obstacles) or a swamp where movement of the character could be slowed down. This allows for different tile-types like walls or lakes (i.e.

Having a data-file that describes your map also allows you to add terrain-information easily.

Since you'll have your map divided into really small chunks (depending on your tile-size), you can easily add/remove rows/columns while the character is moving through the world.

You just have to load a tile-sheet and data-file with indexes to build a potentially endless map. Personally, I'd build the map using a designated tile-editor like TileEd.

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Any links, resources or tutorials on the subject would be greatly appreciated as well as direct answers to our question on how to do it efficiently. I'm not sure about these ideas and thought that I might as it here. Today, he told me he wanted to create a simply 2D array map that contains data about every grid in the game and is a constant save-to-disk operation for data that we don't need. What I mean is, instead of just checking a rectangular area for data to load, we simply section the map into many tiny chunks that load and de-load data as we move from map-portion to map-portion. I played some Zelda from the SNES and saw that, during the shift of a map, the content could be loaded just then. First we had four large sections, but realized we could simply break it down into many tiny sections. We figured this won't hold for long and decided to partition the map into sections. Our first impulse was to create a large map and a circle around the player in which content will be loaded. We have been discussing methods of creating a large world-map that the player can traverse without straining the memory capabilities of our machine. It will be top-down in the style of pokemon or zelda (just the perspective). My friend and I have started creation of a 2D adventure game. The server's screen should become tinted red to indicate connection.I apologize for the subjective 'best' keyword. If a server is opened after the client, press B on the client to connect. If a client is opened when a server is running, as long as both machines are on the same network, it should automatically connect to the server.

On Windows, change the line in a from Network = Network('localhost', 9999, tonumber(args) or 0) to Network = Network('localhost', 9999, 1) then run the game as you normally would.

On OS X or Linux, run the following in Terminal: path/to/love DnD-Map-Explorer/ 1 (1 being the argument that enables server mode).

NOTE: To start a server, do the following:

B - Connects to the server (if in Client mode).

L-Shift - Hold and move mouse to the edge of the screen to pan the camera.

L - Hit twice to draw line with currently selected color, once to choose begin point, again to choose end point.

K - Hit twice to draw outlined rectangle with currently selected color, once to choose first corner and again to choose opposite corner.

J - Hit twice to draw filled rectangle with currently selected color, once to choose first corner and again to choose opposite corner.

D - Hold down to draw with currently selected color.

Drag the whole folder /DnD-Map-Explorer onto your love executable.

On the command-line, run /path/to/love Dnd-Map-Explorer/.

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Download the source (check the releases page).

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