Platformer with an Editor?

[ShadowTiger]

Can any kind and noble soul (Or soul-bearer of any other auric color... :p ) recommend to me from the most creative and favorable parts of their heads, ... a platformer game from any age or era that features an editor?


(A platformer with an editor, if you don't like to read.)


Many thanks. :) I immediately already have several ideas. Jetpack, Abuse, (Awkward editor, that.) and I'm sort of hoping for a Cave Story editor more capable and less similarly awkward than those that already exist.

[Anthus]

Man.. I remember an old-school Gameboy game with an editor. It was kinda limited though. You could make one screen levels and place keys. I don't think you could even jump. This is not my favorite by any means, but it is the only built in one I can think of off of the top of my head.

You could also be a bad enough dood and download Lunar Magic for Super Mario World. It is a nice full range editor (Everything from levels to overworld map, to graphics and palettes), but the community for it is full of stuck up ass holes.

[The_Amaster]

I'd reccommend Happyland Adventures. (http://www.freelunchdesign.com/games.php?id=2)
You can't change the sprites or anything, but the editor itself is fairly robust, if you actually learn it. (If you're initially underwhelmed, just read the documentation)

[erm2003]

Didn't some of the older Lode Runner games have a level editor built in? I think I remember doing that back in the day with a friend once. Tobias, was that the game you were talking about or is there something else entirely?

Jetpack was one of my favorites though. My buddy and I would go back and forth making levels and challenging the other to beat them. Good times.

[ZTC]

If I remember right, the Lode Runner series has the ability for level editing. As mentioned earlier, Lunar Magic is good for poking around a copy of Super Mario World. I just went through come of my computer games, and remembered that Jazz Jackrabbit 2 comes with a fully featured level editor. I almost forgot I had that game :0 Hello 1999... lol

[4matsy]

Two I play pretty often:

Super Mario War (http://smw.72dpiarmy.com/):
SMB multiplayer deathmatch.
The latest version on the website is the 1.7 April Fools' Edition, but the new 1.8 beta can be found in this forum thread:
http://forum.72dpiarmy.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=8843
Definitely get 1.8; they've added an absolute ton of new stuff since 1.7 (such as the new "world" mode, which is basically a tournament played via an SMB3-style overworld map).

Nebulous (http://toppler.sourceforge.net/):
Open-source port of old tower-climbing game Nebulus, a.k.a. Tower Toppler, a.k.a. Castelian.
Comes with 40 or so new levels, in addition to the original game's 16. Ball's levelsets are especially tricky...

[MasterSwordUltima]

Super Mario War would be perfect if they had online play.

[ShadowTiger]

Thanks for the replies, though I'm not really looking for anything multiplayer.

[Darth Marsden]

Duke Nukem: Manhattan Project. (http://www.geocities.com/dukempmaps/DNEP.html) A 2D platformer rendered in 3D. If you make a map-pack for this, I will love you until your dying day.

[ShadowTiger]

Ah yes, I had that. Was kinda fun. Got so monotonous though. :shakeno: Couldn't figure out the editor much, but I really couldn't be arsed, when the gameplay is all the same.