 Transmute is an all purpose tile editor for 2D game development. It is originally developed for use in development of 2D tile based Role Playing Games, but can be used for many other types of games also.
Features:
- WYSIWYG editor layout.
- Three layers of tile data
- Clipping layer
- Full color adjustment of each tile on any layer, including alpha transparencies.
- Multiple tools available including
- Single tile drawing
- Clip tile drawing
- Flood filling with designated tiles
- Color / Transparency adjustment tool
- Entity placement
- Full saving and loading of projects
- Creation of regions of any size up to 999x999 tiles.
- Toggle adjustment to turn off/on any layer
- Execute function that allows you to view map in a test environment
- Custom exporting of data to file format you choose
More features to come in the future, along with a full open source 2D game engine.
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XNA News
Tim Jones has released the source code of a hybrid Ray Tracing / XNA renderer. Ray tracing is used when the camera is static, and XNA is used when the camera is moving so that there's no lag. While the code is a very early version, it shows the ideas and will be improved on soon.
Bojangles has createda multiplayer trivia game with XNA. This game uses Windows Sockets for text communication and is quite fun to play against your friends.
Nick Gravelyn has released a beta of his new XNA Zune Game: Scrambled Albums. This game is a sliding puzzle game with cool features like the ability to play your own songs as you play the game.
Jalf from the Brazilian XNA site: Sharp Games has released a new XNA game for Zune: Rock Rain. This game will make a nice addition to your soon to be large collection of Zune games.
Justin Olbrantz wrote a presentation on spacial sorting and partitioning with KD-Trees in XNA. This paper is a nice PDF covering various spacial partitioning methods and comes with an implementation in XNA 1.0 and 2.0.
Sharky has updated Air Legends expanding on the multiplayer aspects of the game. Also updated was the aspect ratio for those with wide screen resolutions and now supports up to 1080P resolution. Sharky's Air Legends now works for those who previously had problems due to regional issues.
Vecware released a screenshot of his latest software project from 
RandomChaos is working on a new XNA sample showing how to render fire using the NVIDIA flame shader. This sample will generate volumetric fire using billboarding techniques when it is released.
RandomChaos has updated his ocean sample and fixed some errors. This revision of his sample now has a better performance and is comparable with Anirudh S Shastry's shader he has released before.
Alex Urbano has a new XNA sample about Volumetric Clouds and Mega Particles. This sample comes complete with source for XNA 2.0.
Sumo, the second XNA game from Pumpkin Games, is a fast paced arena shooter/brawler for up to 4 simultaneous players. You can play with friends or computer controlled AI bots.
Mahdi Bahrami from Iran released his sample game : Persian Tetris. This game has an interesting old-style classic iranian look and feel with a persian music in background. complete source code for this sample is available to download.
