I’m quite new to creating games using API’s like Monogame as I’ve mainly been using Game Engines like Unity for most of the time so when it comes to actually creating a level for my game… I’m not exactly sure how to do it.
I was wondering if anyone has a recommendation of the best method for creating a level. I know about a program called Tiled but should I use that or create my own Tilemap system?
Assuming you mean 2D games…
Tell more about your idea, ability in coding [as in skill level], what your aim is, do you want dynamic loading, static loading? large maps? RPG? Platformer? top down? side view map?
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The more you tell, the better peeps on here can assist.
Good luck!
You can use something like Tiled, but creating a Tilemap-System yourself is quite easy - even for beginner-programmers - and also a great learning expirience. Also it’s easier to add features to your own system. Just start simple and then extend it to your needs
Thanks
And to answer your questions:
I haven’t really got an idea haha,
I’ve got about 4 years worth of experience in programming so I would say decent but not amazing,
I only need static loading and I don’t need that large maps as it’s simply for a platformer,
It’s also a side view map.
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Could you recommend any tutorials that I should look at?
There’s the age old classic for XNA, there are multiple parts to it.
For putting together your tilemap editor there’s several GUI libs and there’s also a PInvoke wrapper for DearIMGUI. There’s also a ImGuiSharp which is a direct to C# port of DearIMGUI, which is bugged as hell - though I have a fixed up version that I just haven’t tossed onto github yet.
It’s almost a straight drop in to use WinForms and if WPF is more your thing there’s WPFInterop which I’ve been pretty happy using.
I definitely recommend and prefer the immediate mode approach for tools GUI.
We are using Tiled as editor and an adapted version of TiledSharp (https://github.com/marshallward/TiledSharp)
Works like a charm and is more powerfull than you would expect.