User blog:Sim533/Square Meal Level Creator

Hello everybody!

I have been researching levels from Nitrome Games as some of you probably known and have been able to finish one of the researchs. The research I finished is for the game Square Meal.

Square Meal has been released about 6 years ago by Nitrome, and is a simple platformer game where you have to defeat all the enemies. The game consists out of 50 levels.

Now, the fact is, creating levels for this game is simple (and gives us another subject to speak about on the Nitrome Blog), therefore, I have created a level creator that allows us to create levels for Square Meal. The interface is pretty poor and can be accessed from in your browser. Using following link, you can start to create a level.

http://fiddle.jshell.net/Sim533/S9pc6/show/

Creating a level...
Creating a level is really not that hard. Once, you have finished the border which is the hardest part, you can start doing the rest. First a quick overview on what the interface looks like...

The interface consists out of 3 parts. The level, the toolbox, and the footer with buttons:
 * Level: contains the level you're designing
 * Toolbox: contains the block you are currently using, and the all the other blocks where you can select from
 * Footer: contains a set of buttons to add columns, remove columns, add rows and remove rows. The functionality of those buttons doesn't need to be explained, I guess. There's also a fifth button; to submit your level to a Google SpreadSheet form.

Example:

Let's get started
You can create as many levels as you want, feel free to post questions, bugs, and suggestions on my talk page or in the comment box below.

 Sim533