Text on tiles, tilemap brick blasters

[jjwallace]

I am completely lost when it comes to how to use tile maps.

I want to have blocks and shoot them with balls, each ball hit subtracts 1 from the text overlaying the tile block.

Is there a way to overlay a text on every block?  do i need to write my own tile map engine for this?

Any samples of what im trying to build?

[jjwallace]

got this working with regular sprites.  Going to try and load a json from there and have levels.  Would still be interested in how to get seperate sprites built from a map itself.