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Two Questions Please Help


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By Matt8714 - 6/16/2005

1) I am making a game where i need a larger screen than i have so i can move around. I am making a Pokemon type of game..and i have no clue how i can move  so that its not just a 10 x 10 screen. Any input please

2) How can you make a server so that i can play a game i made with a computer next to me?

 

Thanks for anyone who can help

 

Matt

By DXGame - 7/15/2005

Start researching "tile maps". This is pretty much the norm now days compared to using a big bitmap to scroll around. A tile map is basically a 2D array filled with numbers representing a tile that gets blitted to the screen. Standard stuff going back to the Nintendo 8 bit days.

You can do it using standard BitBlt via VB6 but you probably want to research using DirectX instead. Much more flexable and faster.