Looking for level editing software.

Ruicko

Honorable
Jan 8, 2014
6
1
10,510
Me and a few friends are hoping to get started on making a video game sometime soon. I've done a fair amount of research into software that we should use and have come up with a few ideas (3D Studio Max, Audacity, Adobe products etc.)

However, I ran into a bit of a problem being that I can't find any sort of software for level editing or map creation for video games. I'm not sure whether they don't exist in a seperate program and can be done within another type of program or whether I'm missing something and I'm not looking in the right place.

Anyway, If anyone knows of map editing/creation software then a reply would be much appreciated.
 
As far as i know you need a program linked to the game engine in order to create the levels, unless you are godlike skilled in code.
If you look at the games that commony came with level editing (mostly elder scrolls or unreal tournament series).
It should be this way so that the engine understands the input its getting to create the game.

I think there is no way to create a level editing software not linked to a specific engine, as you have no way to predict what are the engines "calls" to the level data going to be.