Exploring the PSK: Adding a New Tileset

As we’re leading up to the first public showcase of the Platformer Starter Kit, we thought we would take some time to walk through some of the features of the Kit, and how to use them.

The Kit includes several tile sets for you to use in your game, but how would you use a new tileset?

Here are the steps:

• Include the image in your Actionscript project
• Create a tile sheet for your tileset
• Create a new tilemap (.tmx) that uses your tileset
• Add the tilemap to your level file
• Add tile collision information for the tile map
• Test the new tile map in-game

Let’s look through each of these in turn:

More information coming soon!

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