Free 2D level editor?

Its usually best to make these kind of things yourself, customized for your game.
Its not too hard, especially using C#.
Saying that, if you still want to use someone elses, ive heard that Tile Studio is alright.It can export to almost all the APIs out there so you should be right with it.
Here is the link to the homepage have a look at it and see if it works for you http://tilestudio.sourceforge.net/

Thank you, that should come in handy since I don't know any programming languages.

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Original post by W01f Thank you, that should come in handy since I don't know any programming languages.

Learn some (or better, learn one well) if you plan to get very far.

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Original post by W01f Thank you, that should come in handy since I don't know any programming languages.

What the... That's like saying, "This joystick's gonna come in handy since I don't know how to fly."

I'm a level designer, not a programmer. You don't need to know programming to make levels, I know this for a fact. There are other people to fill the programming spots.


[Edited by - W01f on January 27, 2005 4:30:56 AM]

So get them to make a level editor for you.

Well that's always a good idea for full customization, but I'm just looking into all other options. If I can save the programmer time so he can work on the actual game, I will.

While that might seem all good and well, in most cases if you're doing something even partly specialized(like a castlevania game), the programmer will end up wasting more time coding hacks to get around limitations of the editor, then if he'd just programmed one himself.

But, either way, good luck.:)

There are a couple others, but Mappy's probably the best.

http://www.geocities.com/rburrowsgc/robmpy.htm

It's constrained by the developers of your game. If they use a well known or commerical 2d engine, then an editor will probably already exist for it.

So look for a decent engine first if they don't want to program a level editor.