So... Tilemaps and sidescrollers

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Trainwiz(Posted 2009) [#1]
Mostly I've been doing space games and whatnot, because I've been afraid of tiles. I don't really understand how to make a tilemap, only that it involves arrays and datablocks. But say I want to make just say, a maze sizescroller, but it's pretty big, how exactly does this work, would have I to type out hundreds of things for a larger level?


okee(Posted 2009) [#2]
Have a look at some of the map editors out there
I know Tile Studio and Mappy have code to load your
maps into Blitz.

http://tilestudio.sourceforge.net/
http://www.tilemap.co.uk/mappy.php
http://mapeditor.de.vu/