Tiles
1,960,000 tiles rendered and updated in around 640~ms. That’s all you need to know about tiles, essentially.
Tiles are extraordinarily easy and extensible. Unlike some other games, they have sheets which are short and can be expanded by need, as far as you want. If you want infinite variation, you can choose to do so (given you have the time) for no performance downside. There’s no fiddling with corners, they just work. This is the basis of the game, and I’ve spent some time ensuring that it will be performant.
This rant may sound a little insane, but it was something I worked hard to compensate for. Next week will showcase Multi-tiles.
There are only 2 things you need to make a tile. Your sheet:
and your data:
I’m also hard at work at making a lot of other things, some of which you’ll be seeing next Monday’s devblog. Such as
I really want to get the alien feel down, so get used to seeing new background effects. The assets weren’t done for what I wanted to show off here, so they’ll be available next Monday.
