Zune WYSIWYG Editor

[ChrisMims]

Why doesn't someone get to work on one of these? With no emualator, it would definately eliminate most of the problems with these games. Seriously, it's too annoying and too tedious to deploy the game to the Zune for every single test!

n.b. truck: don't bash this w/r/t the request template; it wasn't originally in this forum

[AFlakjuju]

so basically its for testing the games on ur pc instead of ur zune right?

[gbabey]

Is this a request? I'm a bit confused - you want a WYSIWYG editor for any zune game made? That's not going to happen. Maybe you could describe in a bit more detail what you are talking about?

Although I do agree an emulator would be nice for development, so slow to deploy, step through and then inspect variables all on the zune.

[ChrisMims]

For example, if you have played the Platformer Starter, you may have noticed how the levels are created. A .txt document contains letters, numbers and symbols, stating where certain blocks, gems and enimies will be, including where the character will start and where the stage exit is.
I think that it would be a great idea for someone to make something like this:

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.........GGG........
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....GGG.......GGG...
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.1................X.
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To do this, you would only need to specify the block size, import the picutres and assign a letter, number or symbol to each picture. That way, when you expot it as a text document, it will automatically write the code based on the position of the the pictures and blank spaces. That should, at least, simplify platform games. I'll try to get to work in a small progam that is capable of doing that.