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I am the architect
Tails Corra
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Something I've noticed about my gaming habits, particularlly in my earlier years, is that I've always had a fondness for games with editors.
Usually single screen games like Dudes with Additude for NES or Jetpack on PC, where I could make a single screen level follow an imaginary narritive of events or just to see how much I can cram into the space given. Later with RPG Maker I'd often just concentrate on making entire worlds for the sake of exploring. Further still when I got around to messing around with Doom editors and simply create environments like castles and forts to explore.
How about dedicating a thread to games with robust or impressive editors, from racing games like Stunts on PC to game-creation-ary like Kodu on XBLA?
Also I wouldn't mind looking for some that would let me create structures and such to build and explore, if anyone has recommendations.
Usually single screen games like Dudes with Additude for NES or Jetpack on PC, where I could make a single screen level follow an imaginary narritive of events or just to see how much I can cram into the space given. Later with RPG Maker I'd often just concentrate on making entire worlds for the sake of exploring. Further still when I got around to messing around with Doom editors and simply create environments like castles and forts to explore.
How about dedicating a thread to games with robust or impressive editors, from racing games like Stunts on PC to game-creation-ary like Kodu on XBLA?
Also I wouldn't mind looking for some that would let me create structures and such to build and explore, if anyone has recommendations.
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The first one that comes to mind is Unreal Tournament 3.
I believe you can get the unreal engine free to mess around in if you so desire.
Umm little big planet's a good one for making levels too, a bit easier to use, and it's a platformer by default rather than an fps by default, although you can't edit into being something else like you can with Unreal.
If you just want to mess around with rpg stuff an old standby is never winter nights.
aside from that I haven't really run into games with editors in my normal foraging, except for maybe games which are basically 100% editor, like Dwarf Fortress.
I really need to check that out.
And by that I mean giant flying dongmobiles.
Though not packaged with the game, DA:O has a toolset you can get from the BioWare site. Apparently you can make your own cutscenes with it and do lots of fancy things with it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIIn0blcd6s&
From here.
It's already available in the Beta, which can be obtained through pre-ordering in several nations.
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oXbox title Pariah was poorly received but it came with a fantastic editor.
edit: Fuck. How could I forget? Tenchu on the Psone. Might've been the second one but the editor in that game was amaaaaazing. To date, best editor I've used and really simple to use. Would've loved to see something similar on current-gen consoles with the online world as it is now.
Personally, I began work on a remaking of the old orc stuff. Not exactly original, at first. I begun to tinker until I derived an entire narrative and backdrop for an intended campaign and reworked the faction until it wasn't new or old, taking ques from all the lore that came out since WC2. Being able to make an entire faction, with all the necessary ques to make it actually selectable as a race in the loading screen and having the tools to structure a campaign with all the trimmings was great. Been working on it since a couple years after WC3's release and still worked on it, until a recent patch rendered it unplayable.
Well truthfully I played it from the Maxi 15-in-1 cartridge I rented from a local video store when I was younger. I dunno, I guess I have a fondness for what one could call B-Games. I did eventually get a copy of the cart for myself a little over a year ago though.
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It does, and certainly way way more intuitive than UE3. Heck, look up "Crysis Physics" alone on youtube sometime and you'll find loads of videos showing people messing around with massive physics in the editor. The mass physics videos are usually done with a sort of time-lapse feature though to keep them smooth, but in general there are even things like custom physics levsl that you can play around in.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gNsCpweVQY
That's just phsyics stuff. Aside from mapping you can also do stuff like using it as a tool to model cityscapes:
http://digitalurban.blogspot.com/2009/10/cityengine-20092-released.html
http://digitalurban.blogspot.com/2009/04/return-to-crysis-sketchup-and-3d-max.html
If you want custom levels in particular, then Crymod.com has hundreds, and loads of guides on how to make them There's probably a few video tutorials on youtube as well, like I said it's pretty intuitive. The engine also naturally lends itself to natural and exploratory settings:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTuAw_i7ngI&hd=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAh5tlA0LHQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNMy9Bu5xXo
Naturally it still takes a while to create really in-depth stuff like that. The first three videos though I'd say you could do using just the editor and in-game assets, probably no additional assets needed. If you wanted to say, create a custom island and throw some soldiers on it and have them fight it out with some aliens, it's pretty simple. There's also a flowgraph system for scripting, similar to UE3's "Kismet" system.
Well, except Far Cry 2, that was actually made quite easy. The downside was that the actual MP gameplay was 'meh' so there was no real incentive to make good looking maps. Though I did build a nice sub pen-like map which took me several days and had started on a massive death star level. Never finished it..
Trackmania is an okay racing game + great track editor in which you can truly build some crazy stuff.
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I'll second Trackmania. It's basically a modern version of Stunts, including the editor. The community is huge, too; you can play for hours on a custom maps server which rotates tracks every 6 minutes or so, and never see the same map twice.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sirZhesdvT8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69L8wypCms0
(Or if you want to pay a fee... that Love game?)
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God yes.
me and my friend had so much fun with this back in the day. We'd agree to spend a weekend making a level for eachother and come together at one of our houses (good old memory cards) then watch the other guy play through it.
One time, I sat there and made an intricate gauntlet of a level, where the game would be over if you were spotted, and there pitfalls and traps all over the place. It was rock solid, and an epic journy to get through to the end. Afterwards, it was my turn. My friend claimed that the level he had made was EVEN harder than the masterpiece I had created. Again, he'd made a level where if you're spotted once, it was game over. Which made for some very tense gaming.
So I loaded it up. And I was dropped into a big wide open room with like 10 guys staring straight at me from the beginning.
We laughed for hours.
Oh and the water bots you could edit in... The very first proper level I created was full of guards stood facing away from water allowing for some crazy 'leap out of water stealth kills'.
Also, the mmo "Love" sounds right up your alley.
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You're after my own heart.
I still have my a few custom units (complete with custom icons) that I slapped together with the idea of making a Ranger Corps campaign for the time period between Warcraft II and Warcraft III.
WC3's editor is indeed very, very comprehensive.
We need a good new Tenchu game.
Tenchu 2 was such a great, great game.
The PS2 Tenchu was very good, but it just wasn't the same.
Oh man, seeing this reminded me of the good old days with the original Starcraft editor. I'm not much good with actually coding things, so the incredible ease of use of that one was amazing. I remember being able to make entire Diablo-esque RPGs within the original Starcraft editor.
Also, am I alone in hoping someone makes Cyrodiil in Crysis? How incredible would Oblivion be if it looked like that?
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Really, now that CryEngine 3 is going to be console compatible and free for non-commercial usage, I hope more devs are going to start taking it up.
It really is an exceptional engine, and the editing tools are easy to use once you get going. It's rare that you get those kinds of visuals in custom levels for other games. Granted it's all re-used art assets, but things like intuitive atmospheric settings (see the difference between Vanilla Crysis and Natural Mod. And that's just with changes to atmospheric and lighting conditions) and how you can craft the levels allows for some stellar stuff.
Games are defintiely a huuuge reason I am studying architecture. I'm fascinated with space, especially the imaginative, intricate designs in good FPS's, or just building awesome cities in RTS's. I used to play age of empires for hours just trying out layouts for towns, instead of focusing on armies :P
Nice. Minecraft is awesome. Well, for those of use that enjoyed playing with Lego. (and secretly still do!)
Made myself a cosy mountain cottage with a nice indoor swimming pool in the basement. Then I found out I couldn't save =(
That said, dwarf fortress is just a big editor, except that you can lose.
Since you used ClarisWorks for it.
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