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I am wondering does ImpactJS support the TMX and/or XML format from Tiled (mapeditor.org)?

No, it doesn't. Weltmeister maps are made up of JSON and are wrapped in an ImpactJS JavaScript module.

I am also wondering if there is an alternative to Weltmeister, is there a different way to lay out maps etc?

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I am also wondering if there is an alternative to Weltmeister, is there a different way to lay out maps etc?

Of course! If you understand that levels are comprised of a CollisionMap and BackgroundMap's, then you can generate maps programmatically however you desire.

If you meant other "visual editors", then not really. Weltmeister is the only editor I know of that is designed to generate ImpactJS levels.

Loading levels is not that difficult though. Have a look at the loadLevel() method in lib/impact/game.js - there&039;s no magic going on. It only looks through the JSON object, constructs #ig.CollisionMap and ig.BackgroundMap instances and Entities with the given names and properties.

So, loading an XML file shouldn't be too difficult: load it via AJAX, iterate through it and construct the maps with the given data.

Tiled mapeditor can save maps as JSON. If you're just looking to import tile layers, it would be pretty easy to load it into a BackgroundMap.

You could go along with the ImpactJS convention, and have a tile layer named "collision" and import impact's collision tileset. Then you might be able to draw the collision layer in tiled and import it into impact. Otherwise it's probably not a big deal to just do the collision in weltmeister.

I am going to figure out something soon for importing tiled maps into impact; I'm developing a top down 2D rpg and I can't live without tiled terrains xD