Programming 2D Games

Flower Power

A butterfly flies over grass and flowers.

• Demonstrates a tile based game using orthogonal projection.
• The butterfly is controlled by the player.
• The map scrolls when the butterfly reaches the screen edge.

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Flower Power 3.0 (Bonus)

Vertical scrolling is supported. Collision between butterfly and post.

• Demonstrates a tile based game using orthogonal projection.
• The butterfly is controlled by the player.
• The map scrolls when the butterfly reaches the screen edge.
• Demonstrates using Entity collision in a tile based game.

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Oblique Projection

A checkerboard is drawn using oblique projection.

• Demonstrates oblique projection.
• The checkers have a reflection.
• The board and checkers are drawn from back to front.

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Isometric Diamond

A checkerboard is drawn using isometric projection.

• Demonstrates isometric projection.
• The checkers have a reflection.
• The board and checkers are drawn from back to front.

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Isometric Stagger

A checkerboard is drawn using isometric projection with the tiles drawn in a grid pattern.

• Demonstrates isometric projection.
• Demonstrates how to position the tiles to form different patterns.
• Different row and column drawing orders may be selected.

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Isometric Elevations

A terrain map is drawn using isometric projection.

• Demonstrates isometric projection.
• The tiles are drawn to represent different elevations.
• Demonstrates how to incorporate third party tile sets.

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Isometric Elevations Layers

A terrain map is drawn that uses multiple map layers.

• Demonstrates isometric projection.
• Multiple map layers permits structures that are taller than one tile.

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Tile Collision (Bonus)

A boat may be driven through a scrolling tile map. The boat collides with the tiles.

• Demonstrates using an Entity object to perform tile collision tests.
• The tile map is loaded from an external file.
• Zoom in and out with +/- keys.

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Isometric Selection (Bonus)

The checker moves to the selected square.

• Demonstrates isometric selection.
• The selection code is located in checkers.cpp

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