Silverlight Game Design: (ii) scene editor for better game development

If one day glory tells me: "Kingdoms" series will end, I will not return to the use of the rest of the youth continue to interpret this Chinese history classic theme games, has been unable to count how many of my childhood memories, as if there had been a group filled with blood "dream simulation War" The player learns to play a game from scratch in order to be able to go on with a continuation. In the move often feel grateful, oneself can master some of the thin technology why not for everyone and use. From the heart of the passion ignited a new beginning, little by little to pick up the feeling of rebirth, still distant ideal behind the push I continue, look forward to one day, the classics can again shine the Earth:

Slverlight Scene Editor Online Demo: http://silverfuture.cn/

Seems to be rough, the function is still in the perfect, but I can't wait to share this 2D game "scene editor", a word describes it: though small spite. After the first tutorial, I often think about how to make a similar type of game like RPG or SLG easier to develop and easier to understand. We must start from the perspective of architecture, and the object-oriented thinking runs through all the Times. So at the beginning of the new year, the blank-level scene editor was born, what could it do? You may wish to look at the following picture:

The picture contains 4 screenshots of different games, from the ground topography analysis of its practices are traditional "tile". Friends who have done similar development know that, in a sense, this kind of work is a chore and not a flattering job, especially if you have not developed your own map editor. Many times the scene is often used is a beautiful whole picture, must be cut into n slices, free to play the whole art of puzzle box? Or test the programmer to write the algorithm? The advantage of doing so is to conserve resources, and better occlusion calculation; But in this age, time is the age of money, we should not kill brain cells in this field, we need to think more about how to innovate, how to give the same product follow-up version of the new feeling. In fact, the concept of using the whole diagram as early as n years ago has been used in desktop business game development, like the soft star of the "Angel Empire" series. A dynamic scene coordinate system, not only can the previous mention of the puzzle into a simple, and can make a game according to different scenes, different conditions with different gradient and arbitrary cell size; arbitrary tilt can make your game structure more perfect match the artist's painstaking effort, Even if the artist is happy to draw a different slant on each scene, we can easily deal with it without attaching a trace of interference to their artistic creations.