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Light in slick is easy, see here: http://slick.javaunlimited.net/viewtopic.php?t=2769

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1. NPCs and dialogue are not handled by Tiled at all. That's all just my own classes and spritesheets.

2. The light is done by filling a polygon with a gradient going from slightly transparent white to complete transparent white (to give it the dissipating effect). The polygon has three points, one on top of the lighthouse which is always stationary, two others that just circle around the lighthouse a set amount of distance in between in each other. So basically a triangle spinning around the lighthouse with a GradientFill.

3. No UI lib, everything is self made and all UI will continue to be self made in the future.

Any update on this, Plissken?

Ah. Hm, yeah not really. I kind of stopped working on it to work on a platformer. My understanding of slick was fairly bad at the time of writing most of this and the code has really suffered. As of now nothing is really happening with the project.

Plissken the visual style of this game is very good.

For some reason, and I can't put my finger on it entirely, it looks much better than any RPG Maker game. I'd almost say, at least from the demo I saw on Youtube, this could be commercial-quality work.

I am embarking on the design of a tactical RPG and the video I saw on Youtube made me pick Slick2d over RPG Maker VX.

Thanks, but trust me the code is far from commercial quality. This was my first true attempt at game programming outside of scripting languages for other engines. I actually made it open source if anyone wants to check out what I had. You might notice some stupid things I did like hack my own camera together because I wasn't aware of the Graphics.translate() method and other silly things I did because of a lack of experience.

https://github.com/tlein/tToA

I'm also sort of redoing this engine whenever I have a lot of free time which you can also find on github here:

https://github.com/tlein/TopDownGame