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Zortch

Zortch Maxinum against The Alien Brainsuckers 路 By mutantleg

No mention of level editor or soundtrack.

A topic by MarkskeleboneXD created Nov 17, 2023 Views: 338 Replies: 8
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Just wanted to start this off by saying that I am a HUGE fan of the game. I've bought it for 7 of my friends and installed the demo on 7 pcs at my school. Why? Because it's funny. Anyways, after looking through the games files for a few minutes in search of the soundtrack, I found out there is an entire level editor just sitting there in the files. As far as I can tell, there is absolutely zero mention of this anywhere, and I think that's kinda stupid. The game could benefit a lot from having a level editor and maybe Steam workshop support too if possible. On the topic of the soundtrack, could you consider putting it up on Spotify or Youtube? In my opinion the soundtrack's good enough to sell separately on steam as a way to support the developers. I get that it's available here on the itch.io page, but I don't think that many people even know the game has an itch.io page. Hell, the only reason I do is because I'm so stupidly obsessed with the game that I decided to install it (or its demo) on 7 SCHOOL PCS. That's all. Thanks for making Zortch!

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hmm.. I guess I should add the soundtrack to youtube (but not so sure about spotify) 馃
the level editor is really just a dev tool and it's provided without official support (which is why there was no mention)

anyway I'm glad you enjoyed the game 馃憤 (and thank you at least 14x times 馃槈)

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Fair enough. Is there a chance for support to be added at some point? I really do think the game could benefit from Workshop support. Zortch has the most smooth movement I've ever seen in a game ever and I was left wanting more after finishing the game the first time. 

And also, you're welcome 14 times! I'd be happy to buy the game another 8 times but Steam's banned me from buying gifts with wallet funds now. 

Developer

there was some progress with the workshop support - so far I found an external tool for uploads
only one big obstacle I found is that steam likes to download the workshop stuff to it's own folder
and I need to figure out a way to grab these paths using their API  etc.
(and also add support for the game to able to load maps and textures from anywhere and properly restore those in save files)

of course you can already share custom levels (the workshop is just a extra convenience)
it's just there aren't any custom maps yet 馃

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Hell yeah! Happy to hear you're working on it! One more question, will there be any documentation for the editor?  It'll be really hard to learn to use it without some.

Developer

so far there is only a shortcuts.txt (it's a developer tool so there is no gui and you need to use hotkeys and built in console to do things)
I managed to make a small tutorial on how to make a pool: https://imgur.com/a/xEsuI6N
and there are several scattered replies on this very itch.io forum (feel free to ask anything yourself)
I guess I really should compile all of these together into one big tutorial some day 馃

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Alright. Thank you for your time!

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Is there a way to split walls horizontally? 

Developer

sure, here I made a quick tutorial: