tilemap-studio VS tiled

> It still appears to have the issue with text flow I ran into years ago where text would overlap with the button outline, rather than increasing the button outline to accommodate the text.

OpenVSP probably uses 'vanilla' FLTK, but there is no such issue on screenshots of Rangi's Tilemap Studio[0,1], where custom FLTK widget themes used.

> That was the one thing I didn't like about it. It made the GUI's look kinda unprofessional.

JFTR, Take a look on AzPainter[2] and its toolkit on top of X11.[3,4]

[0] https://github.com/Rangi42/tilemap-studio

[1] https://hax.iimarckus.org/topic/7691/

[2] https://twitter.com/app4soft/status/1430517079346749440

[3] http://azsky2.html.xdomain.jp/soft/index.html

[4] http://azsky2.html.xdomain.jp/about_mlk_en.html

you knooow... if you used the decomp then tilemap studio lets you edit these tile-format graphics easily just sayin 👀

I built Twins of Caduceus (a snake-based game where you have to control two snakes simultaneously) entirely using Phaser 3. I've had mostly very good experiences with it as a batteries included framework (renderer, asset management, physics, input, etc.)

It's a shame that the map/level editor is a eternal subscription fee with no fallback license. That means you're relegated to either building your own map editor or using something like Tiled.

https://specularrealms.itch.io/the-twins-of-caduceus

https://www.mapeditor.org/

One can get exposed to auto-tiling in different implementations. If you're using a game engine like Unity or Godot, there are features automatically built into those packages to enabling auto-tiling as you draw and create your levels. Also, there are software tools like Tiled, LDTK, and Sprite Fusion, that are a little more tilemap specific and give you native tools for auto-tiling.

When you decide on the high-level design of the resume, start building your map in Tiled. You can customise the map from the basic game you already have or build your one from scratch - just try and see what works best for you.

A more sophisticated approach may be to use something like Tiled (https://www.mapeditor.org), but it typically takes a lot of code to to parse a Tiled map, so I wouldn’t start there. The exact needs of your game will dictate the approaches you use. Starting simple means you can make good, visible progress getting your game to work. And I’m sure that plenty of real games have shipped where the levels are just text files.

When I first messed with Phaser, I just used a 2D array to plop in my tiles, but that was very tedious. That's when I discovered the Tiled map editor! I was able to "paint" with my tilemap to create a map with various layers. I made a ground layer, a wall layer, an enemy layer, and a potion layer.

There is also Tiled from https://www.mapeditor.org/ as a tilemap editor.

and for the map creation side there is plenty of software ! this one is nice and open source and free etc etc : https://www.mapeditor.org/