Logic Simplified

JULY 23, 2025

From Consoles to Culture: A Brief History of Pixel Art Let’s rewind to the days of Pong and Pac-Man , when graphics looked like they were coded on a microwave. With award-winning titles and multi-million sales, this tiny-tile art form is powering a modern indie revolution. We can help! link] Then came the glory days. Yes, cubes.

Pixel

PreMortem.Games

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Planning out code structure was exceedingly difficult, nobody had experience with it and official documentation was sparse to say the least, according to Hermann. Keep spending extra development time to make the DOTS code work, or spend a big chunk of time switching and make it up by being more efficient later?

Dev

Cocos

JULY 18, 2023

I’ve posted this similar stack overflow post: tiled - Loading and rendering a Tilemap TMX using Cocos2d-x v4 C++ - Stack Overflow In short, I have a very simple test scene in C++ Cocos2d-x-4 that is loading a tmx file generated from Tiled. xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> > <map version="1.10" tiledversion="1.10.1"

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Real Programming

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Programmers use coding tools to help them debug, test, and create software. Let’s look at a few of the best coding tools for high school students to see how RP4K’s older pupils get a leg up. Vim is a developer-focused text editor compatible with most programming languages that help with key binding customization and coding efficiency.

Code

Cocos

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Hello, Im new to both cocos2d and c++ im making a game I already did the menu and when I click enter i need a game scene to be implemented, im working on the game map now, and when I write it on my code as the following: bool GameScene::init(). {. //////////////////////////////. // 1. super init first. Layer::init()). {. return false; }.

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Designer Notes

AUGUST 10, 2021

The big change that always gets mentioned when going from Civ 4 to Civ 5 is one-unit-per-tile (1UPT), which is interesting as 1UPT is purely a mechanical – as opposed to thematic – change. Generally speaking, opinions were divided over (although largely in favor of) the success of one-unit-per-tile.

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Retro Game Coders

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Dungeon game written in C/C++ for the Neo6502 Bit of Background Before We Code the Neo6502 In my Neo6502 review I promised I would come back and write about how to code for the machine. Neo6502 emulator for macOS The second issue was which language should I code in? Get all the latest code and files on Github. Yes please!

Writing

Cocos

JUNE 25, 2023

That really depends on your project code, I do think it might be related to how you scale your board, normally you won’t make each tile a node, so that means you will listen to the event on the whole board, and do some detection on which tile should react. Wide guess is the problem is happening on the detection calculation.

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The Liquid Fire

APRIL 11, 2024

As we need to find all possible tiles a unit can move to, A* quickly bogs down because it is designed to find a single path from point A to B as quickly as it can, but finding a path from A to B-Z is a lot of individual paths. static func GetDirection(t1: Tile, t2: Tile): var dir:Directions.Dirs var toTile:Vector2i = t1.pos

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Cocos

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Every tile (dark brown) in the background is a sensor, sensing the diamond type whenever a diamond “touches” the tile’s collider. So each diamond is sitting above another stone until the diamond below stops existing, in which case every diamond above is falling down to a hidden ground below the bottom tiles. Nothing special.

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The Liquid Fire

DECEMBER 7, 2023

We’ll create everything we need to build our tiles and generate a board or two. Gdscript Before we get into any code, we need to take a quick look at some syntax. Now for the unfortunate news, code display on the web isn’t always straight forward. Tile Script We’ll create two folders here.

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Cocos

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Can I ask what cocos2dx version your using I can report code looks. looks like you using windows ? Don’t understand why the is an enter key have you programmed for a key keypress routine. if you look in the director of cocos2dx there at CPP test in your cocos2d-x-4.0testscpp-testsClassesTileMapTest.

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AWS Games

AUGUST 13, 2024

With a beta launch of its first game “Domino Adventures” (a casual mobile game in the connect tiles space, with an RPG twist) just months away, Harmony also needed a solution that could be implemented quickly. Even better that it’s built with the two most popular programming languages, Python and JavaScript.

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Retro Game Coders

JANUARY 31, 2024

Agon C/C++ Compiler: AgDev AgDev is a port of the TI-84-CE calculator C/C++ tools for Agon Light and it uses the extremely capable and mature LLVM to generate Z80 and eZ80 ADL code. I won’t go into all the general-purpose C code and game logic here, I will keep that in the main series. My existing C code uses Conio.h

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Editor: Add one-way indicator to tile collision editor ( GH-67283 ). Editor: Improve tile editor selection appearance ( GH-60892 ). Note: This breaks compatibility intentionally, but we missed merging relevant transition code in this beta ( GH-70244 ). Shaders: Optimize code generation of visual shader particles ( GH-69900 ).

Beta

The Liquid Fire

DECEMBER 29, 2023

A lot of people asked about making 2D maps and how to use different types of tiles like water vs dirt. For this lesson I created a couple of simple images to use for tile maps. This asset will be sort of abstract data, and can be “skinned” with specific tiles at a later point. They are available in this package here.

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The Liquid Fire

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

link] [link] [link] [link] [link] Prerequisites Some knowledge of code is definitely going to help here. I’ll be writing most code in Godot’s Gdscript, so familiarity with that or Python will help. In the Scene panel right-click on the Tile node and click Add Child Node. Under UV1 we need to set the scaling.

Point and Click

Designer Notes

AUGUST 2, 2021

In the original version, one player discovered that the optimum strategy was to cover every fourth tile on the board with a city, a mind-numbingly boring strategy that was always the best choice. Namely, building an urban improvement and producing a specialist on any tile extend the city borders in all six directions.

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Retro Game Coders

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Mhz, which is closer to the clock speed of the Amiga and Atari ST than the Atari or C64, and a lot faster than most of us are used to when coding retro games. Apparently the chip can even be overclocked to 16 MHz, but on the Neo6502 it is running at 6.25 Olimex UEXT connector Neo6502 Specifications: W65C02 processor clocked at 6.25

Demo

iXie gaming

JANUARY 11, 2023

In this piece, we shall be looking at the best 10 tools to use for game development, including tools to make art, code, and music. Visual Studio Code. This tool is an open-source code editor for windows, Linux, and Mac OS. It comes with a variety of features that aid fast coding. Below are the tools: 1. Conclusion.

Game Developer

The Liquid Fire

JANUARY 17, 2024

In that project, we had some unique challenges thanks to a non-square board where tiles were optional. In addition we had to consider tile heights – and whether or not a unit could jump as high as needed. In contrast, the pathfinding in this lesson will be for a 2D square board with no missing tiles.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 1, 2015

New features include: Rewritten Auto-Completion in the Code-Editor. Largely rewritten 2D engine, with support for: Shaders (Visual and Code). Largely rewritten 2D engine, with support for: Shaders (Visual and Code). Improved Isometric TileMap Support (proper Z ordering of tiles and children nodes). 2D Materials.

Polygon

Cocos

MAY 1, 2024

For now, I settled on the ground generation approach (piece of ground->bridge->piece of ground) At first I wanted to attach the code, but I think it would be better to try to explain the meaning of the generation. As soon as the script detects that a black screen will appear soon, the script generates ground.

Sprite

The Liquid Fire

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

The other is that the Axis components in the input manager are split up as one Axis each for positive and negative, and when we check the axis in code, we call a function with the two as parameters. save_game.store_8(tiles[key].height) pos.x, "pos_z" : tiles[key].pos.y, pos.y, "height" : tiles[key].height

Tile

Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Editor: Add one-way indicator to tile collision editor ( GH-67283 ). Editor: Improve tile editor selection appearance ( GH-60892 ). Note: This breaks compatibility intentionally, but we missed merging relevant transition code in this beta ( GH-70244 ). Shaders: Optimize code generation of visual shader particles ( GH-69900 ).

Beta

Real Programming

OCTOBER 10, 2024

It’s well known that parents want their kids to learn STEM skills like coding and math so that down the road they’re ready for the job market. Coding Is Math First of all, don’t be surprised that RP4K talks about how professional coders rely on their math knowledge every day. But what skills? And what jobs?

Software

Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 23, 2022

However, many of you still used these properties in code, preferring degrees to radians. So with this beta release *_degrees properties are restored for use in code and animations ( GH-70263 ). Some of the most notables feature changes in this update are: 2D: Simplify isometric tile shape polygon in TileSet to 4 vertices ( GH-70238 ).

Beta

PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Planning out code structure was exceedingly difficult, nobody had experience with it and official documentation was sparse to say the least”, according to Hermann. Keep spending extra development time to make the DOTS code work, or spend a big chunk of time switching and make it up by being more efficient later? “We

Dev

The Liquid Fire

MARCH 19, 2024

The original version of the code marked the class as abstract, which GDScript does not seem to have any concept of. I removed the check for whether or not a tile is valid from the original tutorial. My reasoning here is that it will allow us to move our cursor over empty tiles, without the need to create dummy empty tiles.

Scripting

The Liquid Fire

MARCH 6, 2024

Different creatures can be different sizes, and accordingly may occupy different numbers of tiles, or be able to reach different tiles (such as for attacking). At the top of the class I added a "tileSize" const that is set to 5 and represents the number of "feet" a tile on the game board spans.

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Tom Francis

DECEMBER 22, 2015

You make tiling vapour layers and stars/dust. It looks good but is awkward code-wise, everything’s hard-coded to a certain zoom level and I have to create a new special case instance for each zoom level. I find very close zooms are disorienting because there’s no background for a sense of speed. opacity layer.

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The Liquid Fire

MARCH 20, 2024

Although I imagine that for the most part the player will only be controlling medium sized units (which occupy a single tile), I also want to make A.I. Even worse is that our current iteration of the pathfinder does not include blocked tiles in its path map, so as it is now, I can’t see a path to an opponent.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

release, but here is a selection of some of the most interesting ones (minus the ones mentioned in the above highlights): Add constants from types in code completion (e.g. TileMap editor: Bucket tool - allow deleting and replacing of tiles. TileMap editor: Display fixes and enhancements on the tile palette.

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Retro Game Coders

APRIL 29, 2022

So far we have only used one sprite so my sprite bank now includes a background tile as Sprite 2 and the monster sprite as Sprite 3. Background Tiles and Beating the Sprite Limits. I use a couple of for loops, one for rows and one for columns, and repeatedly paste the tile sprite over and over. Full Demo Game Code.

Sprite

Grid Sage Games

DECEMBER 1, 2023

The concept is simple, though does require that text characters take up about half the width that tiles do, which can be a little restrictive at certain sizes. Notice how the tiles in this Cogmind screenshot each occupy two cells, delineated by the partial grid overlay. Big chonker tile has arrived. No crashes, just big tiles.

Engine

Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 20, 2015

Rewritten Auto-Completion in the Code-Editor. Largely rewritten 2D engine, with support for: Shaders (Visual and Code). Largely rewritten 2D engine, with support for: Shaders (Visual and Code). Improved Isometric TileMap Support (proper Z ordering of tiles and children nodes). 2D Materials. 2D Normal Mapping.

Polygon

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 30, 2017

Physics: Add one-way collision to tile-set/tile-map. TileMap: Fix infinite loop when trying to bucket-delete empty tiles. Display: Add "expand" option for window stretch aspect. GDScript: Backport advanced string format feature from the master branch. Physics: Backport move_and_slide API from the master branch.

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