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A Simple Tile-Based Game
Let's move from
Asteroids
to another classic game genre, the tile-based maze-chase game.
When you're discussing early tile-based games, undoubtedly
Pac-Man
enters the conversa-
tion.
Pac-Man
was one of the first commercially successful tile-based games, although it cer-
tainly was not the first of its kind. The maze-chase genre was actually well covered by bud-
ding game developers before microcomputers were even thought possible. Many minicom-
puter and mainframe tile-based games, such as
Daleks
, were crafted in the '60s and '70s. In
this section, we create a simple turn-based maze-chase game. Our game,
Micro Tank Maze
, is
based loosely on
Daleks
, but we use the tank sprites from
Chapter 4
.
Figure 9-10
is a screen-
shot from the finished game.
