Well enjoy using the language it's great fun and it sounds like you'll be able to get a lot out of it with your skill set. Glad you found some examples.
So basically you use tiles to construct a huge game area, but clearly you don't draw all of it you just decide where your "viewport" (screen) is and draw only the visible tiles (including the ones half off the screen due to scrolling). If you want parallax, I assume that some of your tiles are transparent or won't be drawn at all. You simply make ANOTHER tilemap for them and move the viewport at a different speed from the main one when the player (ship) moves. Obviously you draw the slower moving tilesmaps first. You may even want a faster moving tilemap in FRONT of the main play area for overhanging stuff that the player goes behind.
Thanks for the congrats about my job. Yeah they are paying a good salary to make games + a bonus as an incentive to make them even better. To me I rather say I'd have BOTH big bucks and passion, instead of Either/Or ;-) This is a good life philosophy for many things, except for eating puddings if you want to remain slim.
So basically you use tiles to construct a huge game area, but clearly you don't draw all of it you just decide where your "viewport" (screen) is and draw only the visible tiles (including the ones half off the screen due to scrolling). If you want parallax, I assume that some of your tiles are transparent or won't be drawn at all. You simply make ANOTHER tilemap for them and move the viewport at a different speed from the main one when the player (ship) moves. Obviously you draw the slower moving tilesmaps first. You may even want a faster moving tilemap in FRONT of the main play area for overhanging stuff that the player goes behind.
Thanks for the congrats about my job. Yeah they are paying a good salary to make games + a bonus as an incentive to make them even better. To me I rather say I'd have BOTH big bucks and passion, instead of Either/Or ;-) This is a good life philosophy for many things, except for eating puddings if you want to remain slim.