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I have been making a tile (block) based 2D side-view game.

So far I have the basic rendering and world generation going. Each tile (block) has its own class for different actions or properties that block has. But I need a way to create these objects using a number.

So every tile (block) has its own id, and so I can use that id to create new objects. And for a inventory system.

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What's your question? – SubSevn May 29 '13 at 11:17
    
Designing levels? You can easily do that with strings. – Sri Harsha Chilakapati May 29 '13 at 11:18
    
Game Development? ask at gamedev.stackexchange.com – Sri Harsha Chilakapati May 29 '13 at 11:19
    
I don't think he's asking about level design. It sounds almost like he's just telling us how he creates objects (that is, "I need a way to create..." " so every tile has its own id"..) – SubSevn May 29 '13 at 11:20

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The way I do is hardcoding every Tile with it's number.

public Tile getTile(int id, int x_pos, int y_pos)
{
    switch (id)
    {
        case 0:  return new GroundTile(x_pos, y_pos); break;
        case 1:  return new SpringTile(x_pos, y_pos); break;
        ...
    }
    return Tile.getEmptyTile(x_pos, y_pos);
}

I doubt that you are creating tile based level for the game. If so you can use Tiled Map Editor

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Thanks Sri Harsha Chilakapati, I tried that it worked. But is there a more dynamic way of doing it? Like without hard-coding all the tiles. – Maxstupo May 29 '13 at 12:50
    
More dynamic way? You can use Reflection but I'm not sure of it. – Sri Harsha Chilakapati May 29 '13 at 13:17
    
Never mind, the answer you gave will work well. – Maxstupo May 29 '13 at 13:31

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