Cell Wars! The editor

This is a level editor created for the video game "Cell Wars!". The editor has been created by embedding the XNA 3.0 framework in the Windows Forms framework.

Although it was not a requirement of the contest (where we presented "Cell Wars!") to develop a level editor, given the 9 phases of the game and just one month to work on it, we decided to develop one. This editor was designed and developed in the first two weeks of that month.

As shown, the editor implements special features for each object, allowing the user to generate different actions as well as test them.

These actions are saved along with other features such as the position and texture of the objects, on the same file of a given level. Therefore, there is no need to modify the code directly if it is required to modify the features of a level. If so, the developer would add new images to the project of the level he/she wants to make changes to, and recompile.


Thanks to the importer developed the .Level file can be read and executed easily.

See levels generated with this editor on "Cell Wars!" Phases

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Cell Wars! The game

“Cell Wars!” is a platform-puzzle game that was developed in less than one month to participate in a Non Smoking video game contest organised by the government. With “Cell Wars!” we were awarded the third place.

The contest consisted of developing a video game which theme was "Quit Smoking", and that was the only restriction.

“Cell Wars!” was developed using the XNA 3.0 framework, it is a 2D video game that runs in Xbox 360, Zune and PC.

It tells the story of an apocalyptic future in which people are dying from smoking and its effects. To fight it, scientists have created a new type of stem cell. THis stem cell has been altered so that it is able to behave as four different types of cells: red cell, nerve cell, platelet and sarcoma. The game takes place in the lungs of a person that is dying of lung cancer, and the player will switch between these four types of cells to fight it.

In order to finish each phase successfully, the player has to collect all the nicotine patches in the lungs and all enemies have to be killed. The enemies are know as carbon monoxide, tar and nicotine.

Every time the player finishes a phase successfully, the person gets better, which means the lungs get healthier (their background gets lighter) and the person does not cough as much. Additionally, the player will learn about the dangers of smoking at the end of each phase. The status of the lung cance is displayer every time the game is saved.

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