Tile-based video game - Reading Assignment

  1. Video game where the playing area consists of square graphic images(tiles)
  2. Tileset - the complete set of graphic images that the game consists of.
    3 A tile-based game is a method of drawing games used across genres.
  3. Warcraft 1. 2 All the mobile 2D games.
  1. What is a tile?
    A tile is a graphic image the scene is made of.

  2. What is a tileset?
    A tileset is the complete set of tiles available for use in a playing area.

  3. Are tile-based games a game genre or a technical method of drawing games used across genres?
    Tile-based games are a technical method of drawing games used across genres.

  4. Name some tile-based games.
    Civilization, Space Invaders

  1. A tile is most commonly a square piece of graphics used to build simple 2d-game representations
  2. A tileset is a set of tiles used in game creation
  3. Tile-based games are a technical method of drawing games used across genres.
  4. Megaman and Zelda - A link to the past (both absolute super gems, better than band token :slight_smile: )

Why cant I see Jelly the main character in unity assets folder to be inserted into the scene?

1. What is a tile?
Small, usually square graphic images that are laid out in a grid.

2. What is a tileset?
“The complete set of tiles available for use in a playing area”

3. Are tile-based games a game genre or a technical method of drawing games used across genres?
It’s just the tech, not a separate genre.

4. Name some tile-based games.
I didn’t want to write what’s in Wiki and what others wrote. So I might be wrong, I think, X-com: UFO Defense is tile based :slight_smile:.

  1. What is a tile?
    Small square graphic images laid out in a grid in the playing area of a video game.

  2. What is a tileset?
    The complete set of tiles available for use in a playing are.

  3. Are tile-based games a game genre or a technical method of drawing games used across genres?
    Technical method

  4. Name some tile-based games.
    Ultima, Civilization

  1. What is a tile?
    Tiles are the graphic images we use to make a tile-based video games (Think of them like the lego bricks of tile based video games).

  2. What is a tileset?
    A tileset is the complete set of tiles available in a playable area.

  3. Are tile-based games a game genre or a technical method of drawing games used across genres?
    Tile based games are not a game genre. The term “Tile-based games” refers to the method that a game engine uses for visual representation.

  4. Name some tile-based games.
    The best game I ever played when I was a kid was a tile-based game called “Zelda a Link to the Past”. Some other notable titles that are tile based are “Shining Force” for the Mega Drive and “Space Invaders”.

  1. A tile in video game is a graphic component of a square of pixels representing the background and ground of the game.
  2. A group of different tiles in a set - tileset - compose the different background elements or part of elements of an game environment.
  3. All kind of game genres can be chosen for for a tiled-based game which is a technique of drawing in tiles.
  4. The legend of zelda, rachet and klang, tekken

1. What is a tile?
A tile is a single graphical unit most often square that are the building blocks of a game and laid out on a grid to create a playable environment.

2. What is a tileset?
A Tileset are all the tiles that are available for use in any given playable area of a game.

3. Are tile-based games a game genre or a technical method of drawing games used across genres?
It is the technical method used to compile a game within a game engine.

4. Name some tile-based games.
Some of my favourite tile based games are Shining Force, Jazz Jack Rabbit and Sim City 2000.

1. What is a tile?

A small square graphic image with which together with many other tiles forms the structure in which the game will be played.

2. What is a tileset?

A tilesset is a collection of tiles which can be used to create more sophisticated forms of game asset

3. Are tile-based games a game genre or a technical method of drawing games used across genres?

These refer to the technology use to portray its visual representation, it is a technical method of drawing games.

4. Name some tile-based games.

  • Harvest Moon
  • Sonic
  • Pokemon
  • Worms
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1. What is a tile?
A tile is a small square graphic image.
2. What is a tileset?
The complete set of tiles available for use in a playing area is called a tileset .
3. Are tile-based games a game genre or a technical method of drawing games used across genres?
It is a way to display the visual representation of a playing area.
4. Name some tile-based games.
Ultima online, Civilization

1. What is a tile?

A tile is a small square (or rectangular, parallelogram, hexagonal) graphic image.

2. What is a tileset?

A tileset is the complete set of tiles available for use in a playing area.

3. Are tile-based games a game genre or a technical method of drawing games used across genres?

Tile-based games are not a distinct video game genre; rather, the term refers to the technology a game engine uses for its visual representation.

4. Name some tile-based games.

Blades of Exile, Panzer General, and Age of Wonders.

  1. Tile is a visual reference to the design language of a website (or other design deliverable). They help tell a story through fonts, color and style collections, and when viewed in combination with wireframes, site -maps and other UI elements, they define that story in an accessible, client-friendly manner.

  2. A tileset is a collection of raster or vector data broken up into a uniform grid of square tiles . Tilesets are used as a core piece of making maps visible on mobile or in the browser; they are also the main mechanism we use for determining map views.

  3. A tile-based game is a type of video or video game where the playing area consists of small square graphic images referred to as tiles laid out in a grid. That the screen is made of such tiles is a technical distinction, and may not be obvious to people playing the game.

  4. Civilzation, Ultima Online, Age Of Empires

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1. What is a tile?

A space that represents a graphic image.

2. What is a tileset?

A cluster of tiles available in the game world.

3. Are tile-based games a game genre or a technical method of drawing games used across genres?

A technical method of drawing games used across genres.

4. Name some tile-based games.

Civilization (Civ 3 was my favourite one), Ultima III, Mega Man (NES), The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (SNES).

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1. What is a tile?
Small squares (or, much less often, rectangular, parallelogram, or hexagonal) graphic images referred to as tiles make up a tile-based video game. That the screen is made of such tiles is a technical distinction, and may not be obvious to people playing the game.

2. What is a tileset?

The complete set of tiles available for use in a playing area is called a tileset .

3. Are tile-based games a game genre or a technical method of drawing games used across genres?

Tile-based games are not a distinct genres rather, the term refers to the technology a [game engine] uses for its visual representation.

4. Name some tile-based games

Space Invades (1978)
Galaxian (1979)
megaman
Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
Civilization 2

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1. What is a tile?
A tile is a small square (or, much less often, rectangular, parallelogram, or hexagonal) graphic images laid out in a grid.

2. What is a tileset?
The complete set of tiles available for use in a playing area

3. Are tile-based games a game genre or a technical method of drawing games used across genres?
Tile-based games are not a distinct video game genre rather, the term refers to the technology a game engine uses for its visual representation.

4. Name some tile-based games.
Ultima III and Civilization

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1. What is a tile?
A small, usually square, graphic that represents a playing area.

2. What is a tileset?
the complete set of graphics that make up the playing area.

3. Are tile-based games a game genre or a technical method of drawing games used across genres?
erm, the second one…

4. Name some tile-based games.
POKEMON YELLOW!
Diablo
AXIE infinity

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let me just rephrase, axie infinitty land play, that is about to launch

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Tile-based Video Game - Reading

  1. A tile is a playing area consisting of small square or less often, rectangular, parallelogram, or hexagonal graphic images.

  2. A tile-set is a complete set of tiles available for use in a playing area.

  3. Tile-based games are technical method of drawing games used across genres. They are used for visual representation - allowing developers to create large complex game worlds efficiently with relatively few art assets.

  4. Some tile based games are

  • Ultima 111
  • Civilization, etc.
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  1. a small graphic square that, together with lots of other squares, is used to compone a gaming area

  2. a tileset is a complete set of the tiles used to compone a gaming area

  3. tile-based games are a technical method of drawing games used across genres.

  4. some tile based games I have been playing in the past:

  • Neverwinter Nights
  • Pacman
  • Civilization II
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