Tile dreamer: Game tiles made easy

Abstract

The Tile Dreamer is an integrated tool for creating and managing tiles, being two dimensional recurring constituent components of commonly deployed in structuring tile-based game terrains. The application consists of four basic subsystems: (a) the main tile editor for constructing tiles; (b) the bitmap ripper, automatically computing the least number of tiles for any given bitmap; (c) the connectivity checker, to test how tiles actually fit together to form larger regions; and (d) the tile bitmap builder, to put together a final set of tiles as a single bitmap. We discuss how the design of game tiles through the Tile Dreamer tool becomes easier and more efficient. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2007.