Tile Studio can be used together with ANY programming language, since the output is completely programmable! You can program Tile Studio to output your maps, animation sequences, bitmaps, palettes, etc. in any format and include the output directly into your source code!

Tile Studio II is now available: Tile Studio II

February 21, 2017 - Tile Studio source code now on Github!

The source code has now been moved to Github, now under the MIT license.

September 26, 2012 - Another update

This is another quick update with some extra features and fixes:
• There is now an opacity slider at the top, so you can set the opacity of most drawing tools (when drawing on a transparent area, the opacity is always 100%).
• Added a simple kind of onion skinning: right-click on a different tile at the bottom to see it vaguely through the current tile.
• Added Tile | Replace Color Under Cursor (Ctrl+R).
• Added View | Used Color Patterns (Ctrl+P), shows the patterns you've used before, you can select (left mouse button) or remove (right mouse button).
• Select next or previous clips in the map editor with Ctrl+Shift+Alt Left or Right.
• Added RGB Color Conversion Scripts (tile editor, bottom right).
• Quotes in .tsd files can now be '...' or '...' instead of only '...'.
• Added Tile | Use As Alpha Channel (Shift+A).
• Added <Counter1>, <Counter2>, etc. (up to 99), automatically increment.
• Added option !StartWithEmptyTile for if you want the first tile in your tileset to be blank (use at the top of your .tsd file).
• Import Palette in the palette manager works correctly now. You can also set up a default palette by naming it DEFAULT.PAL (F8 to switch to palette).

Download ts.zip (or just replace ts.exe).
Tile Studio II is being planned now, if you have suggestions how to make the program better, please list them at Tile Studio Forum - Open Discussion.

July 27, 2008 - Quick update

This is a very early alpha version of 3.0, and it doesn't have many of the features that I planned for 3.0, but you still might find it useful.
• You can now type lists of anything you like (Ctrl+F10), which you can then export using #list ... #end list. For example, you could make a list of sounds for your game: [Sounds], JUMP, COIN, FINISH (each on a separate line). Then you could export #list 'Sounds' 'n' ',n' ' and inside that you can use <Item> and <Index> (also <ItemValue> if your list items are integer numbers), for example: const SND_<Item> = '<Item>.WAV';. If you have multiple lists, you can also add the name of the list as a prefix, for example <SoundsItem>. You can even use the same list recursively, then add a number (0, 1, ...) at the end: <SoundsItem0>. You can also use lists (with 0 or 1 item) for conditional compilation or as global constants.
• Also, you go through a text file line-by-line (#readtextfile ... #end readtextfile) or a binary file byte-by-byte (#readbinfile ... #end readbinfile) to export it in some way. For text, you can use <TextFileLine> (<TextFileLineValue> in case it is a number) and <LineNumber>. For binary files: <BinFileChar>, <BinFileByte> and <BinFilePos>.
• You can now use IFaTHENbELSEc in numeric expressions! The result is b if a is not zero, otherwise c (note that ELSE is always required). Further keywords are NOT, EQUALS, ABOVE, BELOW, AND and OR (only works for numbers though, not for strings). For example:
  const <MapIdentifier>: array[0..<MapHeight * MapHeight - 1>] of <IF (TileCount ABOVE 255) THEN 16 ELSE 8 : 'UInt%d'> = ...
• In edit mode, the coordinates of shapes you draw are now logged (at the bottom right). This is meant for drawing animations, where you want to make slight changes per frame. On a new frame, you can press SHOW to see where you drew each shape before.
• Other changes include (limited) .PCX support, replace current tile sequence in map mode (Ctrl+Shift+F7), new #sequenceframe ... #end sequenceframe (same as #sequencedata, but goes through each frame duration+1 times).

Download ts.zip (or just replace ts.exe), enjoy!

December 1, 2006 - New BlitzMax example

I just made a complete new example of scrolling layers in BlitzMax, which is far easier than the previous examples. It includes a new definition file BMXPNG.tsd: tilemap.zip.

November 16, 2006 - Version 2.55

This is another update with some fixed bugs and changes. Download the newest version from SourceForge or simply replace your ts.exe with the new version.
• Fixed: Replace Colors (Edit menu), Replace All didn't work properly.
• Added: Quick keys '0' - '9' for toolbox functions (pencil, paintbrush, ..., selection).
• Fixed problem introduced in 2.53: conflict between bounds and sequences (certain bounds would change into sequence code 00).
• Fixed: starting a new selection in the map doesn't change the bounds anymore.
• Added: Sequences can now have bounds. When exporting data, #sequencedata .. #end sequencedata can now contains variable <Bounds> (the bounds of the tiles used to make the sequence).
• Fixed: <MapCount> was still not working correctly.
• Fixed: config file not loaded when starting from other directory.
• Added: transparent color can be changed by editing the config file TS.TSC.
• Added: Paste half size image (Edit | Scaled Paste), perhaps more to come.
• Fixed bug introduced in 2.54: #bitmapfile used current directory instead of target directory.

July 23, 2006 - Version 2.54

This is an update with some fixed bugs and changes. Simply replace your ts.exe with this new version.
• New: You can now export tiles as separate image files (use #tilebitmap .. #end tilebitmap within #tile .. #end tile).
• #file now creates the target directory if it doesn't exist.
• New: Replace colors works differently now: first you need a color pattern containing the colors you want to replace (or make one with Ctrl + Right mouse button), press Shift + Tab (split color pattern), make a new color pattern with colors you want to use and then press the Replace Colors button at the top.
• Fixed: placing a mirrored tile in the map sometimes gave a range check error.
• You can turn the back / mid / front layer off in the map editor (View | Show Map Layer...), this is reset automatically when you switch back to tile mode.
• In the map editor, you can copy the current tile combination to the clipboard (and paste it as a new tile in the tile editor).
• Fixed: <TilesetBitmapWidth> and <TilesetBitmapHeight> are updated directly when you use #tilebitmap.
• New: You can set guidelines in the map grid (Map | Set Grid Guidelines...).

Tile Studio Tutorial
Tile Studio Drawing Tutorial (NEW!)

This tutorial is also included in the .ZIP file, so you can read it off-line.

• Tile Studio: ts.zip (unpack this into a new folder and start ts.exe)
• Source code: https://github.com/Wiering/Tile-Studio.git (Delphi 5 Source code)

Older versions are available on sourceforge.

And here are some examples of .tsp project files: examples.zip (includes Worms.tsp, Charlie.tsp and Sint.tsp). You can find the actual games (written in Clean) at the Clean Game Library site (Games section).

These examples contain a .TSP file (with the graphics and maps), a .TSD file (which specifies the output format for that particular programming language) and the source code for the project. Most examples also include a working executable.

Note that the .TSD files here are only examples. Normally, you would write a separate .TSD file for each project. But you could start with one of these.

If you have written a .TSD file for a specific language or library, which you'ld like to add to this list, please send it together with a working demo (source + executable).

Platform / Compiler	Framework / Library	Example
BlitzMax	None	tsbmx.zip / tsbm2.zip / tilemap.zipNEW!
DoCoMo's i-mode mobile phone	DoJa	tsdoja.zip
.NET 1.0, 2.0 and Mono	BooGame	examples
D	Derelict	tsd.zip
Flash / ActionScript	haXe	demo
Java	None	tsjava.zip
C (gcc, dev-c++)	SDL	tssdl.zip
Delphi	OpenGL	tsgl.zip
Clean	Clean Game Library	tscl.zip
MS Visual C++	DirectX	tsvc.zip
Delphi	DelphiX	tsdx.zip
C (DJGPP)	Allegro	tsal.zip
Blitz Basic	None	tsbb.zip
GapiDraw	None	Included in archive (folder samples/TileDemo)
DarkBASIC Pro	None	dbpro.zip
Turbo Pascal	None	tstp.zip *

* The Turbo Pascal example is different from the others, it demonstrates overlapping tiles and the use of palettes.

Tile Studio Forum - Open Discussion

If you have bug reports or feature requests, you can post them at the SourceForge page.

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Game development links:

Ambrosine's Game Creation Resources
IndieGamer Development Forums

Be sure to read the Tile Studio tutorials:

Tile Studio Complete Tutorial
Drawing Tutorial