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[happymonster]

I can think of tile, object, cell, unit, piece..

What would you use?

[Moth]

Personally I go with cell! I save "tile" as a term for graphic related functions and personally when I think of the term "unit" it brings entities rather than spots on a grid to mind.

[happymonster]

Yes I agree actually.

Any other terms you can think of?

[s0]

i used "square" for single tiles in my own roguelike and "cell" for the chunks i used for levelgen

[Moth]

There's also "space" and "block" though block might be another one that gives the level gen chunk vibe.

I can only think of level gen chunks being referred to as "chunks" because I played too much minecraft

[s0]

i would have named them chunks but the word just didn't pop into my head when i first wrote the relevant code, so the name "cells" stuck.

[ProgramGamer]

I guess you're pretty much decided at this point but yeah cell sound better imo.

[Layl]

I like "pages" more than "chunks" for world loading/generating.

[JK]

Just call it a tile. I.e. that's exactly what it is. Even if your game is text based, the term tile signifies an individual piece of a map. The original rogue actually has tile-based movement, albeit with small single-character spaces.

Source: I've made a mini text-based roguelike  before.

[s0]

Just call it a tile. I.e. that's exactly what it is. Even if your game is text based, the term tile signifies an individual piece of a map. The original rogue actually has tile-based movement, albeit with small single-character spaces.

Source: I've made a mini text-based roguelike  before.

"square" is boardgame terminology and because tiles ARE usually squares and roguelikes are kinda virtual boardgames to begin with...

[Moth]

also no one's saying roguelikes don't have tile-based movement, it's just that the term tile is generally correlated with graphics stuff rather than mechanic stuff. anyway its just all personal preference ofc

[JK]

Just call it a tile. I.e. that's exactly what it is. Even if your game is text based, the term tile signifies an individual piece of a map. The original rogue actually has tile-based movement, albeit with small single-character spaces.

Source: I've made a mini text-based roguelike  before.

"square" is boardgame terminology and because tiles ARE usually squares and roguelikes are kinda virtual boardgames to begin with...

I wasn't making an argument against your point. "Square" is entirely valid too. When I played board games with my friends, we usually called them "spaces" anyway haha

[baconman]

I use "tile" as the block itself; "chunk" as a group of blocks that are being mapped, and "cell" to identify the rooms (especially since GML refers to "rooms" as different screens altogether).

[gutterpunk]

Cell, because I code top down roguelike like I code a Game Of Life. Which is probably a mistake.

[Dragonmaw]

cell, and "prefab" for pre-constructed level chunks