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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.

Efficiency, simplicity and clarity are key goals.
Fully keyboard driven modal editing. Mouse support is secondary.
GUI software made in Zig with raylib.
Configurable (format unknown).

Installation

Runtime requirements: raylib.

Precompiled binaries

https://builds.sr.ht/~kikoodx/kble

Manual compilation

Build requirements: Zig master branch, raylib. For Arch users, zig-dev-bin and zig-git are available in the AUR.

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

Press escape to close the program.

Command line argument

Not available on Windows. Accept a path to KBLE file to open. If the file doesn't exist, the given path will be used for saving. Defaults to level.kble if no argument given.

$ kble #level.kble
$ kble sample.kble
$ kble $HOME/projects/kble/sample.kble

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

File (read/write):

e: read (load) level
w: write (save) level
See kbleformat.md for technical informations.

Modes:

<return>: normal mode, default
i: free selection mode
v: rectangle selection mode
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

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

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