{"id":6335,"date":"2017-11-27T23:50:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-27T23:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/310483"},"modified":"2017-11-27T23:50:00","modified_gmt":"2017-11-27T23:50:00","slug":"wonder-boy-the-dragons-trap-dev-reveals-how-to-unlock-the-games-dev-tools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2017\/11\/27\/wonder-boy-the-dragons-trap-dev-reveals-how-to-unlock-the-games-dev-tools\/","title":{"rendered":"Wonder Boy: The Dragon’s Trap dev reveals how to unlock the game’s dev tools"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wonder Boy: The Dragon’s Trap<\/em> developer Lizardcube today revealed (via Twitter<\/a>) that the game’s internal dev toolset can be accessed by editing a config file\u00a0in PC builds released through Steam and GOG.<\/p>\n

The secret? Apparently you just find the “Editor=false” entry in the game’s Settings.cfg file and switch it to read “true”, then hit F while playing the game.<\/p>\n

Having easy access to the tools used to build Wonder Boy<\/em> both affords fellow devs more insight into how the revamped game works (allowing\u00a0players to seamlessly swap back and forth between the original and remastered assets while playing<\/a>) and opens it up to modders looking to put their own spin on\u00a0The Dragon’s Trap<\/em>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

However, the dev team also acknowledged that the tools\u00a0aren’t always easy to use or even complete; in response to a fan question about whether the studio might\u00a0reuse\u00a0the tools to make more classic game revamps, a Lizardcube representative stated<\/a> that “it\u2019s honestly too much of a mess to be considered a reusable tech for anything, tbh. Maybe next iteration will be.”<\/p>\n

Lizardcube cofounder Omar Cornut has a track record of making game dev tools publicly available, having previously released<\/a> (and since supported) ImGUI, a free GUI library for game devs that was forged in his time working at Media Molecule.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wonder Boy: The Dragon’s Trap developer Lizardcube today revealed (via Twitter) that the game’s internal dev toolset can be accessed by editing a config file\u00a0in PC builds released through Steam and GOG. The secret? Apparently you just find the “Editor=false” entry in the game’s Settings.cfg file and switch it to read “true”, then hit F […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6336,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6335\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}