The Goji Editor has finally entered beta and is now available for download from www.gojieditor.com.
What is the Goji Editor?
One of the more difficult processes involved in developing applications and games is how to create and organise the content. By organising content we refer to managing all of the elements that make up the game or app, such as images, sounds, brushes, physics materials, level layouts, user interface layouts, scripts and so on. The Goji Editor primarily helps you to quickly create and test game levels / app layouts and organise the lifetime of resources as well as test in real-time across different screen resolutions.
Goji’s secondary function is to enable full game and app production using available game and app development systems such as AppEasy / IwGame Engine, Marmalade Quick, Corona, GiderOS, HTML5 etc,.,. Goji aims to be as platform and development system agnostic as possible to ensure that exported data can be used by any development system and on any platform.
What does the Goji Editor look like?
Who is the Goji Editor for?
Goji has been designed primarily for designers and developers that create apps and games for mobile and desktop systems. However, Goji is flexible, supporting a huge canvas area and could be used in any capacity that involves organising and laying out graphical information spatially. Goji is also a great learning tool for students that are interested in learning the process of putting together apps and games in an environment where they can make changes and see the results of those changes very quickly.
What are Goji’s features?
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Create and organise game level levels and app layouts into scenes and actors
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Export to many different game and app engine / programming language formats, including AppEasy / IwGame Engine, Marmalade Quick, JSON, XML (HTML5, Corona and GiderOS coming soon)
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Export in multi-resolution friendly format, allowing exported data to be used on any sized display
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Assisted layout editing, including tools to enable easy layout / layout management, bookmarking, edge / vertex snapping, directional cloning and so on
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Full drag and drop support, drop entire folders of resources onto Goji and Goji automatically sorts them all for you
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Support for import of SVG, Texture Packer and other formats
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Support for physics including fixtures, joints and the ability to test physics
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Definition of gaming logic and play using events and actions lists
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Support for Lua / Javascript and other language editing, includes syntax highlighting, code folding and search / replace
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Interactive play mode that launches the game using the built in engine or other engines, also shows coloured debug output
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Create complete working / runnable projects
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Support for user properties
Notes:
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TexturePacker is a tool that is used to combine many images into a single image, usually referred to as a sprite / texture atlas. Packing images into a single image improves rendering performance.
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SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) format is an XML based format that is used to represent two dimensional vector art work. Goji imports the following tags svg (scene), g (layer), image (actor), rect (shape) and path (shape or geometry). SVG is used by packages such as Inkscape and Adobe illustrator
Future features
Features that are currently in development or will be available in the near future include:
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Export for Corona, GiderOS and HTMl5
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Complex actions lists
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Support for animation creation using timelines
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Deployment to iOS and Android devices
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Support for audio, video, web views, in-app purchase, ads and many more additional services
How do I download the Goji Editor?
At the moment the Goji Editor is in open beta and is free to use, however the Goji Editor will eventually become a paid product in the future. To download the Goji Editor please register and sign in then click the download menu to be taken to the download area where you can download a beta copy of the Goji Editor.