Cpp:Building A Simple Tile Engine

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Overview

In this tutorial series we are going to build a simple tile engine in C++ using SDL.

Requirement

To keep the tutorial focused on its subject, it is assumed that you have knowledge of the following technologies: C++, SDL and XML. The game engine we use in this tutorial is taken from this article: Simple Engine Framework Using SDL.

Before we get started you need to do the following things:

• Download the base files [here].

Table of content

• Building the engine (Easy)
  • Part 1: Defining the interfaces
  • Part 2: Creating the base entity
  • Part 3: Creating tiles
  • Part 4: Creating the tile manager
  • Part 5: Creating units
  • Part 6: Creating the unit manager
  • Part 7: Creating the game manager
  • Part 8: Putting it together
• Building the editor (Easy)
  • Part X: Building a browser based XML map editor
  • Part X: Building a browser based XML map editor
  • Part X: Building a browser based XML map editor
• Extending the engine (Medium)
  • Part X: Pathfinding
  • Part X: Simple scripting
  • Part X: Implementing artificial intelligence
• Something (Advanced)
  • Part X: "Fake" Shader Effects