Echo Editor

Overview

The Echo Editor is a comprehensive GUI tool for designing and configuring games built on the Echo Engine. It provides an intuitive interface for setting up game basics, as well as creating tutorial and main levels via grid-based editors.

Key Features

• Game Setup Tab: Configure core game elements including title, fonts (regular and title-specific), icon, background music, base health, damage chance, win conditions (location and required items), tutorial completion items, and narrative texts (prolog, cutscene, game over, and win). Supports file pickers for assets and validation for inputs (e.g., integer checks, file existence, and extensions like .ttf, .png, .mp3).
• Tutorial Tab: A 2D grid-based editor (33x20 cells) for designing single-floor tutorial levels. Add/remove rooms dynamically with adjacency checks to maintain connectivity. Edit room details like name, description, and findable items. Includes add/remove mode toggle and visual indicators for filled rooms.
• Main Level Tab: A 3D multi-floor grid editor (33x20 per floor) for building complex main game levels. Supports adding/removing floors and rooms with vertical (up/down) and horizontal connectivity. Room editing includes advanced fields like usable items, item interaction text, found items, and damage events.
• Export Tab: Export the configured game to a specified directory as a self-contained folder ("Echo_Game_Export") with all assets and configurations. Includes progress indication and instructions for running the exported game via Echo_runner.exe.
• Save/Load System: Persistent saving of configurations to a "Working_game" directory with auto-loading and highlighting of existing data. Supports text files for narratives (with path or direct input options) and asset copying/conversions (e.g., music to .wav via ffmpeg if available).
• Grid Connectivity Logic: Ensures level designs remain connected (no isolated rooms) during additions/removals in both tutorial and main editors.
• Resource Management: Handles bundled resources (e.g., icons, fonts) for standalone EXE deployment using PyInstaller-compatible paths.

Installation

• Download installer from here, and run to install most recent version.
• Go to the github page to download source code, report a bug, or read release notes.

Credits

• Developed by Nova Foundry.
• Licensed under CC BY-ND 4.0 – see LICENSE for details.