Google Summer of Code 2026
This is where I'll be putting up notes from my GSoC project with Tiled. What I'm reading, what I figured out, and what I want to build next.
the short version
Tiled is a 2D level editor. People use it to build maps, tile layers, object layers, and other level data for their games. A world file lets you stitch a bunch of maps together so they show up as one bigger space.
My project builds on the world support that's already in Tiled. The idea is to make it nicer to arrange, resize, create, remove, and switch between maps once you're working in that bigger world view.
the plan
Here's what's on my list. I'm splitting these into smaller pieces I can ship one at a time.
latest
With the World Tool on you can drag out a rectangle in empty world space and a new map shows up there, snapped to the world grid and matching the maps around it. Most of the work went into letting that map stay unsaved until you actually save it.
That's four slices in now, world grid then resize handles then default world then create maps. Full write-ups are in the updates log.