Tidy TileMapper: Streaming Maps - the update!

Streaming maps! The new (long-overdue) addition to Tidy TileMapper.

Submitted as at the 5th of September, glorious year of 2012 - so it should be live for download within a few days.

Enjoy!

-Joshua McGrath

Tidy TileMapper: Dynamic Background Generation and Click-to-paint game logic

A quick "In development" video for a few future Tidy TileMapper updates.
I'm excited!

-Joshua McGrath

Tidy TileMapper: Character Controllers - Coming soon!

Yes yes. I've had a vision.

A vision of the future of "Tidy Tile Mapper" - and by proxy, the future of the human race itself.

I'll summarise it in a quasi-"vision statement" right here, for your entertainment:

"One click: Map

Two clicks: World

Three clicks: Player

Four clicks: Play!"

I think that conveys what I want to do here. I want to extend the "have fun and paint" philosophy that I try to have "Tidy Tile Mapper" bring to level-painting, and bring it to the entire game-creation process.

So over the next few weeks, I'll be releasing paint-able game components - character controllers, event triggers, and so forth.

So look forward to that! I certainly am.

-Joshua McGrath

Tidy TileMapper: Version 1.1 - Three dimensional manoeuvres in the dark.

Tidy Tile-Mapper Version 1.1 has been submitted to the Asset Store and will be available momentarily - excitement of all excitements!

In the meantime, take a look at the video above - where my sultry early-morning tones will guide you toward your Soft Selection aspirations.

-Joshua McGrath

Tidy TileMapper: It's mysterious.

Tidy Tile Mapper has been approved by the excellent individuals at Unity and is now large, in-charge and available for purchase on the Unity Asset Store.

During the fevered wait for this approval, I've been working on Tidy Tile Mapper V1.1 - the evocative results of which you can see above.

This was achieved using the new "Soft Selection" tool for moving individual blocks. I won't give too much away (I'll save that for another husky video) - but I will say - If there is anything you'd love to see in the next Tidy Tile Mapper release, get to typing! Leave us a comment. My "To Do" list is beginning to frighten me with its emptiness.

As always, gentle folks:

Stay Crunchy.

-Joshua McGrath

Tidy TileMapper: In Moving-Picture Form

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

Introducing: Tidy Tile Mapper

What is Tidy Tile-Mapper?

Tidy Tile-Mapper is an extension for the Unity Editor.

Tidy Tile-Mapper - it's the answer to your as-yet unuttered prayers.

Of course, more will be added to this post.

This is merely a post to cement the use of the "Tidy TileMapper" label, so we can make the Tidy Menu you see to the left.

Tidy!