Summary

We now have a working—if not pretty—level editor. In this chapter, we:

• Added multiple layers and other types of data to the TileMap class that we built for Robot Rampage

• Created a multi-project Visual Studio solution that shares code between projects

• Added a Windows Forms form to our XNA Game Studio project and modified the program's startup process to render the form to a PictureBox control on the form

• Implemented methods to allow communication between the Windows Form and the XNA game, including synchronized scroll bars, and updating member variables in the Game1 class in response to Windows Forms controls events

• Implemented methods to load and save map files through the BinaryFormatter class

In the next chapter, we will flesh out the Gemstone Hunter project and cover the basics of building a platform-style game using the maps that we created with the level editor from this chapter.