Hi - I need to build a bunch of levels for a game that involves mazes made of 2D block-shaped objects. What is the best tool to build levels? Lime? Gumbo?
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Ok well lime is actually just a file that helps you import worlds you made from the level editor Tiled. Tiled allows you to build complete worlds if you wanted to. Now, Gumbo just allows you to take your images and drag them on to the screen so you can find your x and y positions and it automatically writes the code for you including the physics aswell. For the maze game, if you just want it to be the size of the screen without any camera movement, use Gumbo. If you want your maze to be bigger than the screen such as 600 x 600 for example, use tiled and lime. With tiled, you can make the maze and then import it with Lime. Then add camera movements to your actor or whatever. Hope this helps!!! If you have any other questions, feel free to ask [import]uid: 122076 topic_id: 23115 reply_id: 92458[/import]
I’d say go for Levelhelper and Spritehelper found here: http://www.levelhelper.org and http://www.spritehelper.org
The creator is super fast at responding to questions and is eager to help anyone with their projects or answer questions regarding his software. I’m by no means a professional programmer, but I’m a professional digital artist and in less than two weeks, I’m now able to set up a sidescrolling scifi shooter with parallax and a joystick to control my spaceship. I really doubt I would able to get this far without the help of Levelhelper and Spritehelper, those tools really cut down on production time and are easy to understand.
Lime currently don’t work with Corona SDK although it someday will be a great tool to use, as of now, large levels makes the device want to die if made and imported into a game using Lime. [import]uid: 72520 topic_id: 23115 reply_id: 92557[/import]
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LevelHelper, SpriteHelper and now CoronaComplete are 3 must have tools imo. Bogdan is very professional and support is far superior to most. [import]uid: 7475 topic_id: 23115 reply_id: 92563[/import]