sharing

Once you are happy with a level, you can share it with someone else by sending them the map.spacestation8.png file. There are several ways to do this. You can attach it in a comment below, send it directly to them, or file a ticket on GitHub and include it there.

One thing to note is that some social networks like Twitter may compress the image. This will break the tilemap parser unless the image is pixel-perfect at 160 x 132 or 160 x 142.

The default map template looks like this:

As you can see, a map is comprised of a 20 x 17 tile grid where each tile is 8 x 8 pixels. The top row is ignored, and for map images that are 142 pixels high, the last two rows (18 and 19) are used for the game's sprites.

There are 40 sprites which you can also modify if you want to reskin the game. Each sprite is fixed to a corresponding element in the game, so while you can re-skin the graphics, you will not make new ones or change the internal sprite mapping.

The last thing to keep in mind when modifying the sprites, or even using a drawing tools like Aseprite to modify map files, is that you will have to use the following four colors (#2D1B2E, #574B67, #937AC5, #F9F4EA) .