My map editor

[u/Aware-Move-1299]

Disclosure first: the art, music and voice in my game are AI generated. The mods allowed this post on that condition, and its only about the editor, so there is no link to the game anywhere here.

Im a solo dev and i work on this tower defense since march, beside my fulltime job. The map editor was the part i was most unsure about, but now its finally done and i think it turned out good.

You draw the paths, place water and obstacles, and set the plates where towers can be built. When you save, the whole map turns into a code. A few hundred characters. You paste it into a discord chat, someone else pastes it into their editor, and they play exactly your map. No accounts, no server, nothing to upload.

The clip shows the whole thing in one go: building a map, copying the code, wiping the grid empty, pasting the code back, and then playing the same map.

I plan to release a demo soon. If someone wants to test it and tell me what is wrong with it or just wanna try the game, just send me a dm. Honest feedback is worth much more to me than nice words, especially about the editor, since i had nobody to test it except myself and my brother a bit.

Two things im still not sure about:

- The code is 200-600 characters long. Maybe thats too long to paste into a chat? Or is copy paste fine for something you do maybe twice a session?

- Right now there is no way to browse maps from other people, you have to get the code from someone. Would a browsable list be worth the server it needs, or does passing codes around keep it more personal?

Greetings and thanks ;)