Piece
Piece noun - A broken or irregular part of something that often remains incomplete.
Tile
Tile noun - Game equipment consisting of a flat thin piece marked with characters and used in board games like Mah-Jong, Scrabble, etc..
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- Lower-Deck Episode: Several absurd examples, from the perspectives of a floor tile, a gold piece, a wall, a piece of paper, a trap, and a door.
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Tile maps are kept in a small piece of memory on the NES mainboard, while tiles (or "characters") are kept in a "CHR ROM" or "CHR RAM" on the cartridge.
Source: Useful Notes / Video RAM - Shout-Out: A given, but notably, the Library in the Land of Love and Monsters has a different piece of dialogue for each tile on the map used by a bookcase.
Source: Videogame / Fandomstuck RPG
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