# Looking to start making maps!

**URL:** <https://discourse.mapeditor.org/t/looking-to-start-making-maps/380>\
**Category:** Questions\
**Created:** [March 4, 2015, 2:07pm UTC](https://discourse.mapeditor.org/t/looking-to-start-making-maps/380 "2015-03-04T14:07:06Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Grayl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Grayl](https://discourse.mapeditor.org/u/Grayl)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2015, 2:07pm UTC](https://discourse.mapeditor.org/t/looking-to-start-making-maps/380/1 "2015-03-04T14:07:07Z")

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Hi everyone,

I’m an avid gamer and have for the longest time had intentions of creating my own game. I stumbled upon this page and it looks like this editor will be great in helping me create the maps needed. My only problem is I don’t know where to begin with the application. If someone could lead me to a getting started page or with some helpful insight it would be greatly appreciated.

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**Author:** ![bjorn](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/discourse.mapeditor.org/bjorn/32/1599_2.png) [@bjorn](https://discourse.mapeditor.org/u/bjorn)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2015, 8:48pm UTC](https://discourse.mapeditor.org/t/looking-to-start-making-maps/380/2 "2015-03-05T20:48:59Z")

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You need to decide which programming language, which target platform and which framework you want to use (not necessarily in that order, of course). Some suggestions:

- JavaScript / Browser: [melonJS](http://melonjs.org/)
- Lua / Desktop: [Löve2D](http://love2d.org/) with [Simple Tiled Implementation](http://love2d.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=76983)
- C++ or JavaScript / Mobile: [cocos2d-x](http://www.cocos2d-x.org/)
- Python / Desktop: [pygame](http://www.pygame.org/) with [Tiled TMX Loader](http://www.pygame.org/project-Tiled+TMX+Loader-2036-.html)

These are [many other options](https://github.com/bjorn/tiled/wiki/Support-for-TMX-maps) to choose from.

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**Author:** ![Grayl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Grayl](https://discourse.mapeditor.org/u/Grayl)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2015, 9:16pm UTC](https://discourse.mapeditor.org/t/looking-to-start-making-maps/380/3 "2015-03-05T21:16:02Z")

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Thanks for the reply Bjorn. I messed around with some things and began to understand adding Tile Sets and the basics of creating a Map. It is my understanding that everything is saved as a TMX file or am I mistaken?

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**Author:** ![bjorn](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/discourse.mapeditor.org/bjorn/32/1599_2.png) [@bjorn](https://discourse.mapeditor.org/u/bjorn)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2015, 9:56pm UTC](https://discourse.mapeditor.org/t/looking-to-start-making-maps/380/4 "2015-03-05T21:56:34Z")

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Yes, everything you set up and create in Tiled is saved in the TMX file apart from the external resources. Your images are referred to by their file name.

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**Author:** ![Grayl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Grayl](https://discourse.mapeditor.org/u/Grayl)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2015, 10:13pm UTC](https://discourse.mapeditor.org/t/looking-to-start-making-maps/380/5 "2015-03-05T22:13:10Z")

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Thank You for the quick replies. I really love Tiled so far. I was originally going to use this for Isometric mapping, but because I’m very new to programming and I feel just plain 2D will be challenging enough. I may ask a lot of questions in the coming days please bare with me. Thanks in advance!

-Grayl

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**Author:** ![rileyrg](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/discourse.mapeditor.org/rileyrg/32/1844_2.png) [@rileyrg](https://discourse.mapeditor.org/u/rileyrg)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2015, 11:30am UTC](https://discourse.mapeditor.org/t/looking-to-start-making-maps/380/6 "2015-03-16T11:30:13Z")

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Look to use something like libgdx which has importers for Tiled tmx files. There are numerous tutorials on YouTube.