Level Editors

As we all know, every good game needs a level editor and mine is no exception. Here's what it looks like:


I knocked this up in Java / SWT in a few weeks and it already covers all the basic use cases. In fact, drawing the tiles was more time-consuming.

I was quite impressed by SWT. It's about a million times easier/quicker than Swing and I like the way it just looks like a native app. I did give the Eclipse Rich Client Platform a try to start with but that seemed to be one of the most impenetrably hard things I've ever looked at so I settled on SWT in the end. I also toyed with the idea of doing it in Python, but the sheer range of Windows Toolkits that are available for it put me off slightly.