ABOUT TILED Tiled is a general purpose tile map editor originally developed in Java. At the moment the Java version is still being updated and in use for a wide variety of projects. ABOUT THE QT VERSION In order to provide a faster and more native (operating system-wize) user experience, this project attempts to rebuild Tiled in C++ on top of Qt. Qt offers many opportunities to improve the performance and usability of the user interface, and a more extensive feature set than the standard Java libraries. In starting from scratch, we'll also try to do some things better than they are done in the original Tiled. For example we will try to not only use input/output plugins, but anything from brushes to object types and maybe even map views may be possible to provide via a plugin. Plugins may also be able to provide parts of the user interface. COMPILING If you have Qt (>= 4.4) development libraries installed, you can compile by running: $ qmake $ make To do a shadow build, you can run qmake from a different directory and refer it to tiled.pro, for example: $ mkdir build $ cd build $ qmake ../tiled.pro $ make There is currently no install target, just run bin/tiled.