Alex and I are grateful for the support we've had from our testers -- the feedback has been super helpful. One valuable source of input has been players' use of the map editor. The "I wish I could do X in the map editor..." emails have given us a lot of new ideas.
Here are a some highlights of recent player-created maps. This one is "Hit Them Where They Live", by MophMoph:
The Wrong Neighborhood, by MophMoph:
King of the Hill, by MophMoph:
Space Lobby, by weasel:
Mars Bunker, by weasel:
Thank you, players! You can play these maps by clicking here. Click the "Play" button and select the "All Maps" tab.
It'd be cool if you could construct a URL that let you load up a player-created map, instead of going into the game and having to find it again.
Posted by: Amit Patel | June 04, 2009 at 11:21 AM
Yes indeed! Fantastic Contraption http://fantasticcontraption.com/ is the king of this idea and I definitely want to do it too.
Posted by: Rob | June 04, 2009 at 11:28 AM
Implementation of URL loading is hyper-easy. :) The code to make it automatically skip the menu is likely going to end up being more lines than the actual variable passing.
Also, blush! My "levels" are just tests of what I can do with the editor, they're not so much playable. :) We should have a "private" flag to hide works in progress from the public eye!
Posted by: Andy Moore | June 04, 2009 at 12:18 PM
Good points! I will make sure these features makes it into the next build although I'm probably going to add a backdoor to see Andy's unfinished levels since they have been so helpful :).
Posted by: Alex | June 04, 2009 at 12:58 PM