It would be a better tool with these improvements. Of course, these improvements shouldn't give unnecessary complications. It should increase are gaming experience and give us more power over them! Here are some suggestions. They are simple and lived up to.
There could be more flexibility in the editor itself. The games are great! Yet what creates them could be improved! I suggest that an 'Add' menu come to the editor. 'Add Actor' and 'Add Activation Region would fall into that menu, along with something like a Location Point. It simply speeds up progress. It allows users to move their editor view relative to the location point. It can be useful in very large games.
This is where the 'View' menu comes in. It can display the Game Properties and Preferences dialogue, as well as the added View Activation Regions or View Activation Events commands. And this menu would also bring up the ability to center the editor on the location points.
The third major improvement would be actor interface. There would be two modes of selection. One would be the traditional select mode -- single select, which gives the most power out of individual actors. It can edit all of the selected actor's attributes. The new tool would be multi-select. It allows the selection of multiple actors for best placement. It allows the general modifications of actors -- copying, pasting, and deleting, all on a single scale!
I also suggest improvements in the actor control. It is great as it is -- it could be better in a few minor ways. When selecting an actor from the actor selection menu, you could alternatively type in the actor's name -- and then the actor control is updated to the actor's attributes that has been typed. It would save much time in finding the actors in large games! I would suggest this in dialogues too. It would help...
Again, Game Editor is a great tool. There are small opportunities of game design elsewhere. When Game Editor is more, it is guaranteed to become more popular!
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