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Old 05-05-2013, 11:02 PM   #133
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Re: Do MUDs need to be "brought into the 21st century"

Actually, you can have 2D tiles whilst keeping an abstract number of entities. This is done in strategy games:

1) In Heroes of Might and Magic (which looks like a 2D RPG), you move around the world map and entities are grouped in one tile, represented by their leader, and there is a different screen for battle which shows all the entities.

2) In Civilization, the entities are individual but stack. No collision.

3) In Pokemon, you don't even see the creatures. Only NPC's.

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