Hey everyone! I've taken some advice I've received on this forum and not only have I decided to not use a game engine for my first few games but also I have decided to start with a Tetris-Style game for my first game. I've worked out a lot of the behind the scenes logic and have created a single block sprite to use as I figure I would need to make all of the shape images out of 4 block sprites that way I can get rid of part of a shape and leave the remaining blocks if need be.
Upon doing some research I was able to figure out that some of the older games, such as the tile-based RPG's, use a multi-dimensional array to represent the mapping logic and then link each array digit to a tile set. I figure I could do a similar thing to my Teteris game, using an array of 1's and 0's. This would give me full control of the mechanics as I can just play around with the arrays to get the desired results I need. The problem I'm having is all the research I'm doing to figure out how to link my sprites to my array-map link to how-to's on using game engines or frameworks where a lot of the code is built in already.
Does anyone know of a good resource I can use to help me learn how to code, from scratch, linking my block sprite to my array? Any help is appreciated!
