I've decided to put out The Hit's crafting tool as an open beta. It's currently a bit buggy and very unpolished, but you can make stuff with it. I'm spending every available moment getting the game into a playable state, and I don't have time to do much creating myself, so I figured I'd see if anyone else wants to use it. I also desperately need some images to promote The Hit, and I'm too broke to run a competition, so there'll be beta keys and copies of the game for anyone whose creations I share.
The tool works a bit like a scalable Minecraft. If you want to use 1 meter blocks to make buildings, you can, but it's possible to shrink the unit size down to 1cm, so you can get some very fine detail. I'll be making the whole system available at some point, and the data format will be freely available as soon as I can figure out a good standard, so you'll be able to use anything you make in your own games or anyone else's games if they're using the same format.
Like I said, it's a bit buggy at the moment, so please don't expect anything too amazing. It also requires an XBox 360 controller, but I'll make sure I get WASD in there in the next build. I'll fix the scene loading as well, so it doesn't reset each time you use it. Colours are also coming soon, so you won't have to make everything in black & white.
Anyway, please download and check it out, and please please please share anything you make on here. Cheers!
http://www.indiedb.com/games/the-hit/downloads/crafting-test
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