zys Posted January 7, 2014 Share Posted January 7, 2014 HiI am making a game of tanks and looking for a nice and easy way to create maps with assets.So I am looking for preferably a javascript editor that outputs a map in JSON format.The game (you can check it here http://tankbattlefield.eu.pn) is still in dev but already have many working stuff.However the map is hand coded and is not as good as I hope.If anyone has suggestions and ideas on Tools that help me make it better, please do not hesitate to reply. Thank you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rich Posted January 7, 2014 Share Posted January 7, 2014 I use a combination of either Tiled (if the game fits into a tilemap style layout) or Flash with JSFL export scripts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Posted January 7, 2014 Share Posted January 7, 2014 Did you try http://www.mapeditor.org/ ?Its a map editor for all kinds of games.But looking at your game it looks more like your map is just a collection of objects, positioned in space, right? By the way: what made you pick ESDF for moving your tank, instead of the WASD all other games use? It took me a minute to figure out why the tank wasn't responding correctly to my controlling behaviour Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zys Posted January 7, 2014 Author Share Posted January 7, 2014 I am not actually a game dev. I am just doing this on my free time, for the fun of it.So there are lots of tools that I don't know about. I will have a look at the link you provided. thx As for the map, yes actually it was done in a bit of a rush just to get a feeling of the game. But it is not good at all, especially that the angle of projection of each object is different. That's why I am looking for something to help put some order in the map. As for your question about ESDF keys, you are totally right (despite that there is a small line beneath the canvas that tells about the keys).The main reason behind this, is that I am living in France and to avoid writing code to handle QWERTY and AZERTY keyboards I have chosen to use keys that applies to both of them. Now that the game is starting to have some shape, I can spend sometime on "nice-to_have" things. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Posted January 8, 2014 Share Posted January 8, 2014 No worries - most people here are no professional game devs and are just coding games for fun in their free time. I didn't know about the different layout in france. Do you use ZQSD (equivalent for WASD) for playing regular video games, or your ESDF keys? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zys Posted January 8, 2014 Author Share Posted January 8, 2014 It is the ZQSD keys (ex: World Of Tanks)but as I said I used ESDF because this will spare me the burden of writing code for ZQSD & WASD Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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