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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. Their first game, Domino Adventures, is set for global release in 2025, with a beta launch targeted for Q3 2024.
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.
We’ll create everything we need to build our tiles and generate a board or two. Tile Script We’ll create two folders here. Because we are going to be updating and viewing the tiles in the editor, we need the @tool command at the top. The next two values let the tile itself keep track of its position.
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.
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Paul had written a Hello World that provided examples of: SoundEffect SetCursorPosition puts ( Put String) Being able to output strings at a specific screen console position, plus being able to see how it is done, was the start I needed. Full bitmap graphics, with tiles and sprites is also available. What Next? What do you think?
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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. This will however mean that later on we will need to do the check before performing an action on the tile.
Odds and Ends Gotta check every little thing, like the tiles-ASCII toggling animation, does that work? For the tileset animation I think it was as simple as having needed to set it to match whatever tile size the map is currently using, rather than always using the standard size. How about the map export function?
Tiles: Fix TileSet editor workspace breaking ( GH-55059 ). Tiles: Only add light occlusion for visible TileMaps ( GH-54435 ). Tiles: Fix selecting next/previous subtile in TileSet editor ( GH-55261 ). Windows: Open a new console window for the editor instances on Windows 11 ( GH-55925 , GH-55967 ).
While Cogmind’s tiles were designed to be fairly recognizable via general shape, that’s still not comparable to our existing familiarity with letters (on that note, this is also why Cogmind ASCII mode can be more easily enjoyed on smaller screens than tiles).
Auto-tiling in tile maps. Console support. Auto-tiling in tile maps. Godot now supports auto-tiling in TileMap, authored by Mariano Suligoy ( MarianoGNU ) and enhanced by Damar Indra. This new implementation is based on Tiled Editor 's Terrains and is fully compatible with previous TileSets.
seen as small bumps between tiles on a GridMap). Windows: Improve console handling and execute ( GH-55987 ). This changes the editor console handling to be like on Unix systems (Linux and macOS). So Godot doesn't open with a console by default, but you can see console output if you start it from a console yourself.
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open for full size) Okay so each tile actually occupies four times the usual amount of space, but what we mean here is that the cell dimensions are doubled. Instead there are many layers of cell data from different subconsoles that feed into a single root console which is then converted to the final image.
Some of the editors are also always shown with persistent buttons: Output console. Just add enemies, move them around, change their properties, add colliders, platforms, tiles, etc. This aspect of Godot was also improved in 2.0 with the introduction of a new bottom panel. On it, contextual editors can make a tidy appareance.
. “Semi-modal” 45-Row UI Layout Although players are free to continue using the full 60-row layout originally designed for Cogmind, anyone who does not mind sacrificing some convenience in exchange for greater cell size can use 33% larger tiles and text by switching to a 45-row layout. How do we reclaim our missing map height?
Core: Improve the console error logging appearance: ( GH-49577 ). TileSet: Fix selection of spaced atlas tile when using priority ( GH-50886 ). Core: Add support for numeric XML entities to XMLParser ( GH-47978 ). Core: Add option for BVH thread safety ( GH-48892 ). Core: Fix sub-resource storing the wrong index in cache ( GH-49625 ).
Core: Improve the console error logging appearance: ( GH-49577 ). TileSet: Fix selection of spaced atlas tile when using priority ( GH-50886 ). Core: Add support for numeric XML entities to XMLParser ( GH-47978 ). Core: Add option for BVH thread safety ( GH-48892 ). Core: Fix sub-resource storing the wrong index in cache ( GH-49625 ).
Core: Improve the console error logging appearance: ( GH-49577 ). TileSet: Fix selection of spaced atlas tile when using priority ( GH-50886 ). Core: Add support for numeric XML entities to XMLParser ( GH-47978 ). Core: Add option for BVH thread safety ( GH-48892 ). Core: Fix sub-resource storing the wrong index in cache ( GH-49625 ).
Core: Improve the console error logging appearance: ( GH-49577 ). TileSet: Fix selection of spaced atlas tile when using priority ( GH-50886 ). Core: Add support for numeric XML entities to XMLParser ( GH-47978 ). Core: Add option for BVH thread safety ( GH-48892 ). Core: Fix sub-resource storing the wrong index in cache ( GH-49625 ).
There's a decent debugger overlay with dev console too, for those who use those things. However, it has been designed for a fairly specific use case: tile-based pixel art platformers. I also liked how Haxe has decent autocompletion support in VS Code, which reduces (but doesn't quite eliminate) all the documentation hunting.
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