LDtk
A modern, user-friendly 2D level editor for indie game developers.
LDtk (Level Designer Toolkit) is an open-source 2D level editor built by the director of Dead Cells, designed with 20+ years of game development experience. It offers features like auto-rendering tile rules, customizable entities, world layouts, and Aseprite support in a carefully crafted UI. The tool exports a well-documented JSON format and supports engines like Unity and Haxe, making it easy to integrate into any game project.
Developers design levels visually in LDtk, define auto-rendering tile rules, and export levels as PNG images and a simple JSON file for use in any game engine.
Indie game developers building 2D games
Background.
- Status
- launched
- Business model
- free
Founders
- Sébastien Benard
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