A tutorial on building side-view game environments from 16×16 tiles within a 16-color palette. It walks through a rocky-grass ground set (color blocking, tilted edges for depth, clustering, and detailing), platform support tiles that sit just behind walkable surfaces, and simple multi-layer backgrounds meant for parallax without cluttering the foreground.
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