Y.A.M.E

Y.A.M.E stands for Yet Another Map Editor. For now this is a development title.

Primarily it aims to be a generic map/scene editor for any kind of 2D game.

The project is in a really early phase, which means it is still a prototype. Code base may change completey in the future.

Feature

The main features of Y.A.M.E have to be the following:

Layer support.
Support for tiled and non-tiled maps.
- A mix of both has to be possible.
Non-tile entities can be organized as a mesh.
Primitive shape (rectangle, ellipsis, line & polygon) support.
Entity grouping support.
- Users can define more complex entities by grouping up single entities.
  - E.g. a tree entity contains a wood entity and a bunch of leaf entities.
Smart tile support.
- Similar to grouping support, where users arange their tiles in a way, the editor knows how to align the tiles properly when brushing tiles onto the map.
Smart mesh support.
- Similar to the Unity 3D map editor, where you can define which texture has has to be rendered on a surface based on the surfaces angle.
Extension support.
- The editor has to give other developers access to all features it provides, so features which are not supported out of the box can still be implemented.

The whole editor is based on HTML5.

The following libraries, languages and tools are used:

Electron and Node.js as a basis
TypeScript for the buisinuess logic
less for styling the UI
PixiJS for the map rendering
Semantic UI for the GUI
gulp.js for developing and building
Common JS libraries such as jQuery, Backbone.js, bluebird, etc. check out the package.json

The project assumes that you have installed Node.js on your system.

If you do not have installed typescript, typings, gulp and electron globally, install them with

npm install -g typescript typings gulp electron

If you met all requirements, checkout the repo and run

npm install

npm run yame

will run the editor.