Creating 2D Game Worlds In the Powerful (and Free!) LDtk

LDtk is a FREE, Cross platform, super streamlined and powerful tool for creating 2D tile based maps and worlds. In this video we will do a quick tutorial showing you how to use it.
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[@DeepnightGames]

Thanks a lot for your amazing video

[@holdthetruthhostage]

Been following this channel for a minute, I think what would be great is if you started to showcase some assets and templates from unity & unreal that allow you to build a game. With everything most people have to do I don't think everyone has time to make a game from scratch. Also it's not we are building it from scratch in using an engine so why not a template from an engine. Unity Assets To Start With Corgi game engine Game Ki Controller

[@ScaerieTale]

I love that despite how much LDTK has changed since this video was published, the core concepts are 100% the same. I've been meaning to learn LDTK for years now, and this tutorial is one of, if not the best, I've found for onboarding. There are some good ones for importing levels into different engines out there, but for LDTK 101 this is the best!

[@bistrobmusic]

I've been following this one and my goodness the developer has been updating it at a breakneck pace.

[@Bonniebelle_00__]

Really that's rare nowadays too

[@VibrGames]

I suppose it helps when it's a tool that the developer uses themselves

[@RiccardoBocci]

i hope this will bring some love to Haxe and its fantastic engines which are so ridicously underrated (especially Heaps)

[@ukrsolid]

Godot will be nice to work with this!

[@llareia]

I was interested to see where this was going to go the last time you covered it, and man it does not disappoint. I think they're taking this in an awesome direction! I'm going to have to check this one out myself.

[@irishbruse]

LDtk is awesome :)

[@ukrsolid]

Thanks for LDtk review!

[@SecretOp]

Thank you for covering this tool! I might just switch to it from Tiled for Unity 2D development.

[@EdSchroedinger]

this tool is amazing not least because it's own, beautiful aesthetic...

[@puzzlebeast783]

Great times to be indie developer! :D

[@NoskYTB]

How can i get this assets tiles, please.

[@fablewalls]

What 2D game engines will this export to? Will it export (I don't mean a simple .jpg) to GDevelop or Godot for example?

[@EcuadorianFlagShip]

I also want to know how well this fits into Godot.

[@arthritic]

@@EcuadorianFlagShip On board as well

[@simonjones90]

It exports to a json file which you have to implement in your game engine. There are plugins being developed for Godot to do a basic import. github.com/lrgilbert/godot-LDtk-import

[@holopengin]

It can export to Tiled, so if your engine has a Tiled importer and not an LDtk one it'll still be usable.

[@fablewalls]

@@holopengin - that's a cool workaround...

[@alexhooi7268]

looks great for planning out 3d maps too

[@Richard.Slater]

I loved this editor, is it possible to create games for nes and snes? Excellent channel, your videos are great :)

[@wishinghand]

I wonder how easy it'd be to combine this with Phaser. I'm completely a noob in game design, mostly just watching from the sidelines. Don't know if combining them would be trivially easy or impossible. And by combining I guess I mean making the maps and then programming behavior with Phaser.

[@buckyBitBoy]

Holy shit, this is ridiculous gorgeous

[@ThePC007]

Wait, isn't this just LEd, but released under a different name?

[@MisterWealth]

Can I use this for unreal engine?

[@ScaerieTale]

Wondering this too. There's a C++ plugin, but I have no idea if/how it works with Unreal. Hope someone out there knows because importing as PNG is going to be a pain

[@DeepnightGames]

@@ScaerieTale You can easily import the JSON itself by using the existing importers listed on the website. As of displaying levels, it mostly should be a matter of displaying rectrangle tiles from an atlas image. I don't know much about UE for this part, but you may ask on the discord :)

[@JonathanPriceArt]

I missed the humble bundle. Anyone know where one can buy those tile sets normally? Level design has always been the main thing holding me back from making any game projects and I see I'm going to need outside help to overcome that obstacle. This software looks great.

[@NoskYTB]

Same, Did you find any assets?

[@arcan762]

Will you cover more specific topics about the tool? This channel has done 3 quick "feature overview" type videos of LDtk in the last year that are all basically same thing, but nothing more in depth...

[@DrWho2008t101]

thanks

[@NapoleonBonaparteMAGA]

11:48 how did you grab that whole lights tile set?

[@guywithknife]

God I'm childish, "Wang tiles" always make me chuckle. Think there's something wrong with me 😂

[@leonpijudo6875]

Is it more appropriate for pixel art?

[@EcuadorianFlagShip]

At 2:47 he says the bundle was expanded, could someone explain? I bought this bundle a while back, do I get more stuff? What should I do?

[@trumpetbob15]

Go into your purchases on your Humble Bundle account and the new items should automatically have been added. Not sure if the new ones will be at the bottom or not though; you might have to check to see what you had already downloaded to see what is new.

[@EcuadorianFlagShip]

@@trumpetbob15 thank you !

[@Fransadiwinata]

can i use this for rpg maker mv?

[@arcan762]

The docs for this tool are pretty scant at best.

[@dashl5069]

I love "ehnooms"

[@j0j0dartiste21]

Can it export as image? That way it could at least be used in rpg maker

[@Cameo221]

Yes, there is a image export option. I have not tried it before myself, but it exists :)

[@DeepnightGames]

Sure, you can check the option in your project settings panel: this will output 1 PNG per layer, in each level.

[@pureheroin9902]

Enoooooooms

[@waterman7082]

(and Hard!)

[@botolo78]

I wrote this simple guide for LDtk if can be of any help approaching the editor

[@charlesselrachski34]

are you going to host and post your guide in codeberg ?

[@botolo78]

@@charlesselrachski34 it's on my GitHub io page, but I suspect I can't post links, because it disappeared 😁

[@Bonniebelle_00__]

@@botolo78 lol y so subtle 👀

[@IamMrSlimy]

Enoom.