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In my last Faxanadu update I had already hinted at the fact that you need to understand how to leave screens if you want to understand which tiles are used for a certain screen. This is because the level design of Faxanadu is an inductive process. The tiles used in a screen depend on the tiles used in the screen before. The same is even more true for the colors used to paint a screen. Before going on with explaining how a screen is drawn it's therefore necessary to know about the different ways of entering and leaving a screen. This update deals with the doors, the next update will deal with scrolling.

One might assume that there are just two ways to leave a screen, through a door or on one of the four edges of the screen. Nothing is that simple in Faxanadu though. There are (at least) five different ways to leave a screen, three of them are about leaving screens through a door, the other two are for leaving a screen on one of its edges. That's the five ways I've uncovered so far at least and they're sufficient to draw all screens correctly in my level editor.
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