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Javier López · Last edited by Javier López on Thu Jan 22, 2009 7:20 pm; edited 1 time in total

I have spent 40 hours in making this tutorial. I really hope it would be useful for some of you.

"We are going to learn how to create an in game map editor that dosen’t use tiles, but directly backdrop images that you can translate, tint, rotate, scale, etc, in different parallax layers and camera zooming. You can have several tilesets and you can of course to save / load the maps using XML files. This type of editor is used in games like Braid or Aquaria. For this tutorial we are going to use IndieLib C++ 2d engine, because their entity objects are great for having graphical objects which attributes can be modified in real time. And we are going to do it with style, using graphics from lostgarden.com prototyping challenges and Aquaria game."

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Please, can all you (forum members) vote up these links? This way the tutorial would be readed by more people and maybe the community will grow faster, thanks!

http://www.dzone.com/links/in_game_c_map_editor_tutorial_with_indielib_engin.html
http://digg.com/programming/C_map_editor_tutorial_like_in_Aquaria_or_Braid_games
http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/7oi41/in_game_c_map_editor_tutorial_with_indielib/?already_submitted=true
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http://gametuto.com/in-game-c-map-editor-tutorial-with-indielib-engine-that-dosent-use-tiles-but-pieced-images-like-in-braid-or-aquaria-games/

Video: http://vimeo.com/2769377

numlook · Joined: 09 Jan 2009 Posts: 21

These tutorials and your engine is impressive! I'm trying to learn C++ now so I can get in on this.

Javier López · Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2009 8:27 am Post subject:

Nomad · Joined: 11 Aug 2008 Posts: 62 Location: Kyiv, Ukraine

Wow!!!

That is huge )) Superb.

Adding a good and flexible editing to the IndieLib is my spare time digging. (Though i began with adding native os gui panels and controls)

Javier López · Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2009 8:28 am Post subject:

Gooooooooooood! Nomad is BACK! Smile

I'm happy to see you again here!

venomj · Joined: 21 Jan 2009 Posts: 1

Thanks Javier
This tutorial is very helpful to me.
Keep it up

Javier López · Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2009 7:18 pm Post subject:

km · Joined: 15 Nov 2008 Posts: 41 Location: Ukraine

Sure Javier.All my team members will vote
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Zappa · Joined: 19 Jan 2009 Posts: 32 Location: Romania

Javier López · Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2009 12:08 pm Post subject:

Thank you!

Javier López · Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2009 5:07 pm Post subject:

Someone told me that a modified version of this tutorial is being used in Haunted Hotel III Very Happy

I can't wait to play the demo.

venomjj · Joined: 10 Feb 2009 Posts: 94

I like the editor. You know it's this editor draged me here.
(I registered as 'venomj' and wrote my first post here, but forgot my password ever since)
Now I have developed a GUI system, I would like to add GUI to this editor and make it more user friendly.
Before that I'm fighting my way to input Chinese in my GUI.