Tools > 8BP LEVEL MAKER TUTORIAL
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This cart presents some information about how to make levels. It presents the information through sign messages in the game (in the first level). The second level illustrates how water works. The second level doesn't have any signs because you can only use 13 signs in the game, and i had run out of signs in level one.
This tutorial only makes sense if you look at level one and two in the map editor. You need to see what the messages in the signs in level one are referring to, and see how water works in level two.
You also have to look at the sprite editor to see the tile numbers that are mentioned in the sign messages, as well as search in the code for the things mentioned in the signs.
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Some things about making 8 Bit Panda levels that did not fit in the tutorial:
1) You cannot use the top 8 map pages (the top row, pages 0-7) for levels. When a level loads, it "unpacks" to the top 8 pages, and then "packs" again after it's finished. Therefore, the top 8 map pages must be left empty.
2) Levels can span multiple map pages, but the entire level must be in the same map row
3) You can only use three levels per isle and there can only be six isles. If you try to create a level 1-4 or 7-1, for example, it won't work.
4) Levels in the game appear in the order that they are in in the LVL table in the code.
5) Map page 61 (near bottom right of map editor) has the roads and levels of the world map.
6) Yellow letter A is player starting point at the beggining of the game.
7) Yellow letter B is player starting point after saves (red numbers adjacent to the B are isle numbers).
8) White numbers (tiles 61,62,63) are level numbers.
9) Red numbers adjacent to the white numbers are isle numbers. (White number 3 with adjacent red number 2 is level 2-3).
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To learn more about 8 Bit Panda, read the original cart's comments and code.
The comments and code on this cart are the same as in the original 8 Bit Panda cart. The only differences are:
1) the sign messages in the SIGN_MSGS table.
2) one comment i added at the top of the code about how to access the debug menu (i didn't create the debug menu; it's in the original game).
3) some indentations were deleted to make space in the code (to be able to add the sign messages and the comment).
4) In TitleTic function:
-changed the colors of the title screen
-changed the name and centered the name
-removed the text at the bottom of the screen
5) a couple of changes in the LVL table:
-the background colors and palettes of levels 1 and 2
-the length of levels 1, 2, and 3
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To see the original game, made by Bruno Oliveira (btco), go here:
https://tic80.com/play?cart=188
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Another good thing to read is an article Oliveira wrote, which can be accessed through a link on the 8 Bit Panda github page: https://github.com/btco/panda
Comments
 Skeptim
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I just had a quick look but that's cool! Making a level of an existing game could be a good way to start with TIC-80, especially for children. I think you should put it on the wiki Tutorials page https://github.com/nesbox/TIC-80/wiki/tutorials with other tutorials you made.
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