What is Tidy Tile-Mapper?

Tidy Tile-Mapper is an Editor Extension for the Unity Game Development engine. It allows you - the master artist and all-around nice individual - to quickly and enjoyably create levels for platformer/top-down styled games - Think Alex Kidd or Wonder Boy - but in glorious 3D.

Here's a super-fast rundown of the deal with Tidy Tile-Mapper.

	Construct your Blocks A block is the building-block of your game maps. It may contain many block-sets, representing different orientations (e.g corner blocks, lone blocks, diagonals etc). Each block-set contains multiple variants - to allow you to add a little spice to your maps (e.g grass, grass-with-flower etc).
Paint your Maps Using the Blocks created in the Block Editor paint your Block-Maps. Use the Paint tool to click-and-drag your selected Block around the map. Use the Paint-Random function to randomly alter the variants of each block as they are placed. Use the Cycle tool to (Cycle - left click) click and cycle through available Blocks. Use the Cycle Variant (Cycle - right click) to cycle through the available Block Variants.
	Publish and Play Click 'Play'. Success! Your map is now trim and terrific, able to be tested instantly. Alternatively, click 'Publish Map' - a prefab will be created, stripping all working blocks and data from the map - ready to be used in your glorious tile-based creations.

More to come - stay tuned, stay excited!

-Joshua McGrath