[casual_games] School Related Request

[Tim Maly]

Metanet's N has a large level editing community and everything is free.

http://www.harveycartel.org/metanet/n.html

Tim

Nick Fortugno wrote:

> Hey there, everyone. As you may know, I have been involved in the 

> development of the game design curriculum at Parsons in NYC. Things 

> have been growing steadily, and we're going to be offering Game Design 

> 2 for the first time next semester.

>

> The focus of this class is level design, and I'm hoping that the class 

> will prepare students for professional level design work by having 

> them spend the semester building levels for a variety of games. So my 

> hope is to have a number of level editing ready games available for 

> school use.

>

> In light of this, I have two questions for the list:

>

> 1) Do you know of any good free or cheap, perhaps online, games that 

> have level editors? Preference goes to simple-to-use editors that have 

> some kind of save functionality, such that levels can be worked on 

> outside of class and viewed in it.

>

> 2) Does anyone have anything that they've worked on that they would be 

> interested in donating to Parsons for this purpose? Any old, forgotten 

> games with decent editing tools lying around? Aside from the joy of 

> fostering the next generation of designers, you'll get to see a pool 

> of prospective hires actually working with your tools.

>

> Feel free to reply to me directly on #2. #1 I think might make an 

> interesting list topic.

>

> Thanks in advance,

>

> - Nick

>

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> Nicholas Fortugno

> Co-Founder/CCO

> Rebel Monkey

> www.rebelmonkey.com <http://www.rebelmonkey.com>

> 347-731-0894

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