Buffered Image for Image Tiles

Question

I want to create a game where I want to have many image tiles which will respond to the arrow keys. Should I use BufferedImage to create every individual tile?

Refer to: Java Game Playing Area Difficulty

Answer 1

RobotChase is a tile-based game that uses BufferedImage in this way. Alternatives include these:

• Implement the Icon interface, as shown in the examples cited here.
• Set a component's text to a suitable Unicode glyph, as shown here.