Another Warcraft & World Editor

[Genesys]

The title might doesn't explain it well.

Is there are any other game similar to Warcraft which has an editor like WE?
Having able to create a custom scenario by in-game triggers, and especially with a scripting language (JASS) that provides an extensive API which gives programmers control over nearly every aspect of the game world.
List of level editors (Wikipedia)

 

[TheLordOfChaos201]

star craft has a simular thing

 

[andreasaspenberg]

heroes of might and magic 5 have an editor with advanced scripting written in lua. rpg maker vx ace have advanced scripting and can be used to create large scale games.(can buy it through steam). earth 2160(unsure about the number) have a fairly advanced editor. that is all i can think of.

 

[BlargHonk]

Apparently Dota 2 is looking to do similar.

The problem with SC2 is primarily in how maps are indexed, only the most popular maps are shown at the top in the UI. As well, the editor is much more complex and obfuscated.


I'll be honest though, I haven't fiddled with SC2 since the Beta. I wasn't impressed by it and cancelled my pre-order.

 

[Gilles]

There's nothing as friendly as World Edit. SC2 and Dota2 have powerful editing software, but as Blarg mentioned, SC2 is much more difficult to use at first. Dota I have no idea, but I would assume it's also more complicated than wc3.

The beauty with World Edit is that the difficulty curve is fairly gradual for that kind of software.

 

[LordDz]

Hammer Editor.

 

[BlargHonk]

Hammer Editor.

I think he means something a little lower down the totem pole of complexity than that.

 

[Naze]

Company of Heroes' editor is called World Builder, it seems pretty popular between those who play CoH thus I guess it must be easy to use. I don't know how far does it allow the user to do a custom map with programming/triggers, though.

 

[Deathcom3s]

Dota 2 is working on getting their tools up to par, but as mentioned above, it has a much steeper learning curve than the world editor.

Honestly, the WE is a fantastic tool. The base it gives you start from is substantial, and the learning curve is gentle enough that most people can jump in and at least make something. But, it also has a surprising amount of depth, and it's amazing to see what people have been able to do with it over the years.

Honestly, if you're starting to hit your limit with the World Editor, I would look at giving a full-blown game engine a try. I've used quite a few different engines over the years, but Unity has the most gentle learning curve of the lot, and you can get something thrown together rather quickly. It uses a proper language (C#), which means there are a ton of resources for learning the language, and the actual documentation for the Unity API is very well done, and there are a ton of resources out there to help get you started.

Something worth considering.