How to make a zelda-type map with spritekit in swift

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Created Oct ’16

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I dont know what its called but its the same type of map that zelda and pokemon used to use in the old nintendo games. Everytime I google it I keep getting "side-scrolling mario-like screen how to's".

I'm thinking it would be one very large image and zooming in to just a small piece of the screen some how. I dont want to change backgrounds just stay with the same one. If I can use the square blocks to paint the map in .sks file would be nice too. Obviously I would change maps by going into houses or caves (like pokemon) but I would like it to expand as far as possible until I decide to switch to a new map.

PS. Please Swift only

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Tellis V OP

Nov ’16

It's called an over-head tile-based map / background / world.

With XC8 you can use the tile-map editor to do the heavy-lifting of your world. Then, add your player as a spritenode, then add a camera as a cameranode--center your camera on the middle of the screen (don't have it follow the player).

In your .update() you can check for your players position (such as a tile location) and then scroll the camera by however much you want.

So if you have a world that is 100x100 tiles, and each "screen" your character walks around in is 10x10 tiles, then when your character's position moves to a tile that ISN'T in view, you move the camera 10 tiles in that direction... your 'scrolling' effect ala Pokemon / Zelda 1.

You can do the same thing without tilemaps as well, but it would be much simpler.

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