Ball of Woe - Built with Tidy TileMapper

Hello friends, well-wishers, Tile-mapping enthusiasts.

We've done it! After five long months of development we have released "Ball of Woe" - built in Unity using Tidy TileMapper.

The project began as a basic test to assure that Tidy TileMapper handled three-dimensional upward-growing maps using the Runtime API (we make a lot of these tests on our side to assure that everything runs smoothly) but evolved, twisted and grew into a fully-fledged project.

Take a look at the promo video (above) and then - if your appetite has been whet, take a look at the longer development video below.

Ball of Woe has been currently released for iPad (we built and tested on the iPad 1, getting delicious frame-rates between the 50 and 60 mark - capped at 60 to preserve battery) - and is free.

So - feel free to get it from the App Store now.

And if you have any questions about how we did it - particularly: "Wait... I thought Tidy TileMapper was for building side-scrolling platformers?" - I'd love to give you more information - maybe in a video or blog?

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: Introducing Tidy Controllers

A short introduction to the latest update of Tidy TileMapper: Tidy Controllers.

-Joshua McGrath

Tidy TileMapper: Turning your models into Blocks

-Joshua McGrath

Top-down maps and Block Orientation.

Another tutorial for you today, my friends - this time demonstrating and explaining top-down mapping in Tidy TileMapper.

Hopefully this is helpful to you all.

-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 Tile Mapper: A Very Big World

A short demo utilizing the Tidy Tile Mapper Runtime API.
Something to wet your appetite for massive procedural worlds.

Enjoy!

-Joshua McGrath

Tidy TileMapper: Runtime API Demonstration

Hello friends,

The first release of the Tidy TileMapper Runtime API has been released and is now live on the Asset Store.

Take a gander at the video above, which gives you a nice taste of the functions achievable using the library.

Stand by for API documentation and example code - should wet your procedural-generation appetite.

-Joshua McGrath

Tidy Tile Mapper: How to create Custom Blocks.

Hello friends - at the request of the excellent community on the Unity forums, I've put together this tutorial video demonstrating the use of the Block Editor and the creation of custom blocks with Tidy Tile Mapper.

If you have any questions, please feel free to leave a comment.

Enjoy!

-Joshua McGrath

Tidy TileMapper: Official Video

Witness, and enjoy - the new Tidy Tile Mapper video!

100% less speaking, 100% more chiptune.

Soundtrack - "The Boss" created by Multifaros - see his excellent work here: http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Multifaros/

-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: In Moving-Picture Form