Carnage Orchestration For Beginners
Looking into your ears, I can tell you're the kind of person who's always liked
Ducks
but thought "I can design better levels than that" or "It would be great if the alien
recited poetry when he fell off the screen" or "That seagull would look so much better
wearing a bowler hat". Don't deny it. I know you.
Well, generous people that we are here at HS, we're giving you that chance!
The level editor used to create the levels in the actual
Ducks
package is now available for download, letting
you build your own arenas of duck carnage and/or salvation.
What Do You Get?
The Ducks Editor Suite will contain the following:
- EGG Builder: Pull graphics, sounds, levels and assorted other stuff out of
existing data files, including the main data file. Create new data files and fill them
with your own puzzles, animations, noises and whatever else you see fit.
- Level Editor: Design new levels from scratch, or muck about aimlessly with
levels which were designed by others. Customise background noises, available tools, duck
positions, graphics, objects, coloured lighting, special effects, par times, indestructible
areas... the list goes on. And then stops. As lists do.
- Sprite Editor: Finally available to the public! The most
recent version of the Ducks Editor Suite contains this gem. (NB: Work on this program was
never fully finished in the strictest sense of the word - it features only limited copy and paste and
there's no loading from image files - but it works and, much more importantly, it's downright funky.)
You can take a shufty at how these programs look when they're running on the
screenshots page. Fancy giving it a go? Great - simply
download it to your machine and get creating!
If you have any questions, you may want to ask the inhabitants of the Ducks forum.