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This wiki is meant for the more dynamic and collaborative pages on the Tiled website. Here is where we'll have tutorials, documentation of the TMX format, maybe some future planning, etc. Feel free to just start editing!

Articles

Right now there are only a couple articles on this wiki.

• Creating a simple map with Tiled - The basics about starting and editing a new map.
• Examining the map format - Here we take a closer look at what a map file looks like when you open it in a text editor.
• Writing your own plugin - How to add support for another map format to Tiled.
• Automatically generating maps from bitmaps - This article discusses two Python scripts that can be used to automatically generate Tiled maps from bitmaps.

External articles

The following articles may give you some ideas about how to use Tiled.

• Game map editing using Tiled - A short and nice introduction to Tiled.
• How to use Tiled to create Stendhal maps - This tutorial is made specifically for a slightly modified version of Tiled for Stendhal, a free and open source MMORPG.
• The Mana World mapping tutorial - This tutorial is made specifically for The Mana World, a free and open source MMORPG.

Support for Tiled maps by 3rd parties

For some libraries, somebody has already spent the necessary effort to directly load Tiled maps and decided to publish their work. Thanks a lot!

• XNA map loader by Kevin Gadd: http://www.luminance.org/code/2009/06/17/tiled-map-loader-for-xna
• Pygame map loader by dr0id: http://www.pygame.org/project/1158/?release_id=2063
• Slicks 2D comes with support for Tiled maps: http://slick.cokeandcode.com/javadoc/org/newdawn/slick/tiled/package-summary.html