Community maps: from the editor to the game

Make a map

1. Sign in and open the map editor. It runs in your browser, on a computer.
2. Press NEW MAP and pick a size (12 to 32 tiles a side), or open an official map with the arrows and change it.
3. Paint the ground and the heights, add props, mark where each side starts. Press INFO to name the map and describe it.
4. Press SAVE DRAFT as often as you like: a draft is yours alone, up to ten of them. MY MAPS lists them.
5. When it is ready, press SUBMIT FOR REVIEW.

What a map needs

The editor and the server check these before a map can even be saved as a draft, and tell you what is missing:

• Spawn points for both teams (SPAWN A and SPAWN B), the same number each, at least three a side so a 3 v 3 fits. Ten a side makes it a 10 v 10 map.
• At least ten food spots (FOOD), so a long battle does not starve.
• Enough ground for the battle your spawn points promise: at least 7 walkable tiles per pig (42 for a 3 v 3, 70 for a 5 v 5, 140 for a 10 v 10), and at least 30% of the map walkable. Spawn and food spots have to stand on the map's ground.
• A name of 3 to 40 characters. No links, web addresses or invitations in the name or the description.
• It has to be playable: when you send it, the server fights one test battle on it before it reaches a person.

You can have three maps waiting for review at once and send five a day.

The route

Stage	What it means
Draft	Yours alone. Edit it as much as you want.
In review	A person is looking. You can no longer edit it.
Refused	A person said no and wrote why. Fix the map and send it again.
In the community	In the gallery. Players pick it in a waiting room (WITH FRIENDS, then the map, then COMMUNITY), fight on it and like it.
In the game	It reached 500 likes. It is now part of the official maps, for everyone.
Withdrawn	Taken back by you, or removed by us.

The vote, and your reward

A signed-in player with a verified email can like a map, once, after fighting on it, and never their own. When a map reaches 500 likes it joins the official maps by itself, and you earn 200 truffles, once. We may discard likes from accounts made to inflate a count.

Reporting and removal

If a map should not be there, report it from its page. A few reports hide it until a person has looked. A removed map stops being fought on. To have a map removed, write to support@pigwars.app with its link.