Game Creator
Selecting Create Game from the construction kit menu will bring up the Create Game menu. Here you can select an amount of levels and compile a game from them which will then be accessible in 1 player mode from 'Edit' game. The menu contains the following options; New Game, Add level, Remove Level, Game Attributes, Compile Game.
New Game: Resets all entered levels to start a new game compilation.
Add Level: Brings up the add level menu. A list of available levels will appear. Click on the tick at the side of the level to preview it. Selecting OK will add the currently previewed level to the compilation.
Remove Level: Brings up the remove level menu. The list of added levels will be displayed. Clicking the tick will remove the level in question. Clicking OK will return to the Compilation menu without harming the added levels.
Game Attributes: Be sure to go through here with any compiled game. Firstly you must give the game a name. This is the name that will appear for the game on the edit game select screen when it is compiled. Next you must select a 'Stage Select Mode'. 0 means the stages must be cleared before you can select them on stage select, 1 means you will always be able to select them. Next you enter the name which will appear on the credits screen under 'Level Designer', (since you was the level designer, not me).
Compile Game: Takes all the level that have been added and compiles a game from them. This may take a few seconds depending on how many levels you are adding. Your game an have up to 100 levels.
Game Management/Sharing
From the Cave Chaos directory, the custom games are installed into leveldata/compiled/ and are installed into their own folder with the same name as the game.
Removing a game must be done manually by deleting the folder of the game you wish to delete.
If you want to share your levels with someone, copy the folder for the game, and give the folder and contents to that person. Installing a game you received from someone else is done by placing the folder in the leveldata/compiled/ directory.
Cave Chaos will automatically detect what games exist in the edit directory, meaning you don't have to install a game inside the game. Just drag and drop the folder and its done.
Creator Tips
* The built in games (Easy - Insane) are made of 30 stages and 6 bonus stages (easy/normal). However a game can contain any number of levels and bonus stages. You could even not have bonus stages. A game can be up to 100 levels big.
* Be sure to create at least 1 bonus stage unless you include no bonus tokens in the levels. If there aren't enough bonus levels for all the tokens, extra bonus stage entrances will go to the final bonus stage.
* When compiling a game, be sure that all the levels are actually possible to complete!!!
* Have fun.
Made some levels?
Made an interesting compiled game? Why not submit it to Spam&Cheese. Go to http://www.btinternet.com/~simonmoore for more information.