kble/README.md

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KBLE, a KeyBoard driven Level Editor

A work in progress level editor with extensive keyboard support. Designed for tile based 2D platformers. This is a work in progress program in unusable state.

Short term design decisions

Subject to change.

  • Fully keyboard driven modal editing. Mouse support is secondary.
  • GUI application made in Zig with raylib.
  • Configurable (format unknown).
  • LDtk inspired tiling rulesets.

Build instructions

Build requirements: Zig master branch, raylib. For Arch users, zig-git is available in the AUR.

$ # Clone this repository
$ git clone https://git.sr.ht/~kikoodx/kble && cd kble
$ zig build run

Press escape to close the program.

Default keybindings

Movement:

  • h: left
  • j: down
  • k: up
  • l: right
  • y: up-left
  • u: up-right
  • b: down-left
  • n: down-right

Verbs:

  • <space>: clear selection
  • d: delete selection
  • r: replace selection
  • +: increase scale (zoom)
  • -: decrease scale (dezoom)
  • =: reset scale

Modes:

  • <return>: normal mode, default
  • i: free selection mode
  • v: rectangle selection mode [not implemented]
  • c: camera mode [not implemented]

Mouse control

Right click and left click are the same, except right click reset selection before taking effect.

  • Click: free selection.
  • Shift + Click: rectangle selection.
  • Click while selecting: end selection.

License

Copyright (c) 2021 KikooDX

This project is under the MIT license. See LICENSE for more details.