Design our maps please!

Right, we've got Psycho Fireman up to a playable state - so we want you DOING SOME WORK.

We've placed the map data into a wiki so you can create your own puzzles, we'll then take the best work for the official finished game.

Please help because, frankly, we're rubbish at this bit.

To play an example go here

How to create your own puzzles

Go to the wiki main page
Set yourself up with a user account
Create a new document with a unique name, say Awesomelevel
Cut and paste this text into the form.
Edit the map to make it a puzzle of your own design

A breakdown of how the map stuff works

X = Wall
P = Player starting position
V = Victim (a cat)
F = Fire
The aim of the game is to push the cats into the fire
To play a level you need to cut and paste the wiki URL. So if our level is http://wiki.robertmanuel.com/wiki/Awesomelevel - then we need to go to http://www.robmanuel.com/psychofireman/psychofireman.swf?url=http://wiki.robertmanuel.com/wiki/Awesomelevel to load it within the game
If there's more cats than fires then you won't be able to complete the game
Only place one player starting position into the game, placing two will make the universe collapse
Making maps that are landscape-shaped will look better, as that's the shape of the screen and the game stretches to fill
You can probably make maps that break the game. Very easily, in fact
That STARTMAP ENDMAP stuff is very important. Without it the game will not recognise your map

Next week

The game is far from finished: the graphics aren't coloured in, the tune isn't there, there's no way of playing more than one level without reloading, no restart and no visual tweaks to really sell the burning cats - we'll leave this stuff for the final week of polishing and selecting maps.

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How to create your own puzzles

A breakdown of how the map stuff works

Next week

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