How to write a custom tilemap implementation

[leNoah]

Hi, I was wondering how I would create a Tiled implementation, like STI but I'd like to write it myself because I like to know exactly how everything works. How should I do this?

thanks in advance, noah

[pgimeno]

There's a tutorial in the wiki that greatly helped me start understanding the concepts.
[wiki]Tutorial:Tile-based_Scrolling[/wiki]
[wiki]Tutorial:Fine_Tile-based_Scrolling[/wiki]
[wiki]Tutorial:Efficient_Tile-based_Scrolling[/wiki]
The latter delves into [wiki]SpriteBatch[/wiki], very important for tilemaps.