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Ed: Your 2D Game Level Design and Prototyping Tool

Unleash your creativity with Ed, the ultimate 2D game prototyping and level design tool. Design captivating 2D games anytime, anywhere. Ed empowers you to bring your game ideas to life with intuitive features and seamless integration.

Key Features for Efficient Game Development

Room-Based Metroidvania Support: Craft intricate Metroidvania worlds with ease. Define optional room sizes per level, name individual rooms, and assign page-specific tile properties. Export this data directly to your engine for seamless integration of your room-based game design.

Rule-Based Brushes: Streamline your environment creation with powerful rule-based brushes. Set up intelligent brushes for terrains, platforms, and other features by assigning rules to sprites, allowing the editor to automatically select the appropriate sprites based on their neighbors. Enjoy built-in support for bitmasking, 47-tile, and 4x4 tile terrains for quick and efficient level building. Draw or erase large areas with ease using thick brushes, dramatically accelerating level design.

Tile Definition Classes: Create unique and dynamic tiles with versatile tile definition classes. Customize animation settings, background and tint colors, and even override tile sizes and offsets. Assign variables and values to tiles and implement custom scripts for advanced behavior, giving you full control over your game's environment.

Comprehensive Sprite Management: Manage your sprite sheets effortlessly. Import and slice sprite sheets, remove opaque backgrounds by specifying a key color, and set up tile bitmasks and brushes directly within the editor. Export them to rule brushes for creating rule based dynamic environments.

Automated Terrain Generation: Accelerate your workflow with auto terrain generation. Automatically generate a complete 47-tile terrain set from a single sprite. Fine-tune corner radiuses individually and optionally stamp decal sprites on different sides. Export generated terrains as PNG files for further editing in your favorite image editors.

Dynamic Environment Swapping with Auto Brush: Rapidly prototype and iterate on your levels using auto brush functionality. White box your levels and convert them into high fidelity with ease. Instantly Swap between enviroments without having to redraw levels.

Multi-Layer Level Design: Create depth and complexity with multi-layer level design. Utilize multiple boards per level and leverage onion skinning tools for easy drawing across layers. Export levels as PNGs or ASCII-based scripts. Use Quads to add non-grid based 2D entities to your levels for enhanced detail.

Fully Customizable Boards: Tailor your levels to your exact specifications with fully customizable boards. Adjust grid size, horizontal and vertical gaps, background colors, alpha blending modes, and tint colors for each board. Add depth and realism for your levels with Parallax settings.

Pattern Creation and Drawing: Save time and maintain consistency by creating and drawing patterns. Define patterns from selected tiles and stamp them with precision. Use the rectangle or ellipse fill tool to quickly paint patterns across designated areas, creating repetitive structures with ease.

Integrated Pixel Art Tools: Bring your artistic vision to life with built-in pixel art tools. Import and create color palettes. Draw directly on grids, export pixel art as linked sprite sheets, slice them into sprites, and integrate them back into your game levels. Ed provides an end-to-end workflow for creating and incorporating pixel art into your games.

Direct Export to Unity: Streamline your Unity development process with direct export capabilities. Automatically generate sliced sprite sheets (Texture2Ds), data files, and levels in a Git-friendly format. The code-based output allows for easy integration into your existing game logic. Generate sprites for entire levels with the push of a button.

(Note: Ed is a level editor and not a game engine.)

Easily Readable JSON: Export your entire project as a ZIP package containing rendered sprite sheets and a comprehensive JSON file. Parse the JSON file in your favorite engine to bring your creations to life with ease.

Design Anytime, Anywhere: Ed is available on desktop, tablet, and even iPhone. Open your Ed files on your mobile device and design your game on the go with cloud sync integration.

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