Unleash your creativity by building custom 2D side-scrolling platformer games in this user-friendly tool. Design characters, levels, enemies, items, bosses, and cut-scenes without writing code. Pick from built-in backgrounds, tiles, music, and sound effects, or upload your own assets.
Craft full games or single levels in sandbox mode, spread them across one or multiple overworlds, or skip overworlds entirely. Add doors, pipes for travel, secret exits, locked chests, item shops, camera effects, custom physics, and specific completion goals. Play solo or in 2-player co-op with keyboard or gamepad, then publish and explore community creations. Casual indie creators and game development enthusiasts find endless fun in its quick-learn tutorials and smart tools.
Let your creative spirit shine and create your own 2D side-scrolling platformer games. Platform Builder is designed to be user-friendly and quick to learn, yet powerful and sophisticated to allow maximum control and a whole lot of fun! You are in command to design your own characters, levels, enemies, items, and more. All of this can be done without learning a single line of code! Games and levels can be shared and played straight from Platform Builder, giving you the opportunity to publish your creations and check out what others in our community have done.
With Platform Builder, you can...
...create full games or use Sandbox mode to build single levels.
...spread your levels across a single overworld, multiple overworlds, or don't use overworlds at all.
...play by yourself or grab a friend for 2-player co-op mode.
...craft your own title screen, game over screen, and victory screen.
...design your own custom enemies, items, projectiles, characters, bosses, and cut-scenes.
...choose from a wide variety of built-in backgrounds, tiles, music, and sound effects, or upload your own.
...add camera effects or change the physics of your levels.
...define specific goals which need to be met in order for your levels to be completed.
...construct your courses in one large single area, or you can utilize doors/pipes to travel from place to place.
...create alternative "secret" exits to reveal secret levels.
...place items inside locked chests or items boxes, or set a price on the items to create your own item shop.
...construct courses with a moving camera.
...design for standard movement or with auto-runner games
...enable the "smart tool" to auto-complete certain building tasks.
...rearrange how your various items are displayed to maximize your productivity.
...learn quickly with our tutorials, the in-game manual, or right-click on almost anything to learn what it does.
...publish your games or sandbox levels to the Platform Builder community so that you can play each other's games straight from Platform Builder.
...play with your keyboard or a valid gamepad controller.
...find help and support straight from the developer.
