Basic tile engine

Newbie & Debugging Questions
#1

Could someone provide a link to a good Tile Engine example, with file saving. I know there are alot of Tile Engine examples in different languages, but I was hoping for a simple Java example, that that can save a map, which is usually an array. The shortest amount of code possible, or a tutorial would be best. For graphics, I would like to use LWJGL.

#2

How about a simple text file where each character represents a tile?


0000000000
4003001301
1111001111
4000002000
1111111111



//read file
int y = 0;
for(String line : lines) {
    for(int x = 0; x < lines.length(); x++) {
        switch(lines.charAt(x)) {
            case '1':
                add(new Block(x,y));
                break;
            case '2':
                add(new Player(x,y));
                break;
            case '3':
                add(new Coin(x,y));
                break;
            case '4':
                add(new Enemy(x,y));
                break;
        }
    }
    
    y++;
}
#3

depends, what all are you going to have on your map? cuase that could change things.

if just walls, then make a 2d boolean array, and every step just check if spot is “blocked”. simple enough :).

#4

Not Java specific, but how about just using Tiled?

#5

Thank you for providing this! :smiley:

#6

@ antelopeDJ

A i just finished explaining my more complete example:

#7

Even better! The code provided in this thread helped me to understand how it worked, and yours seems to build on it. appreciate