Ninja Painter

did you know its super easy to make your own Ninja Painter levels?

all it takes is a downloaded .swf file of Ninja Painter and a copy of JPEXS, an open source Flash decompiler.

let's take a look at one of the levels: here is level 3

these levels are just grids, so lets take a look at how the game stores these.

in JPEXS, open your Ninja Painter swf and expand the scripts section. expand "frame 4 (init)", and click on DoAction.

wow! every level is stored as a plain string of numbers

here is a full level code: Level 3's to be exact

as you might notice, the code somewhat resembles the level, as long as you orient the text into a 34x12 grid.

every set of two characters is a tile, meaning that levels are 17x12 in size. their simple method of storage means making your own is as simple as firing up a text editor.

here areall the possible characters, the tiles will automatically change their theme

here is a custom level i made simply by taking the "Level 0" from the level list, which is just 204 air tiles, and typing character sets into it, and pasting it into Level 3.

so go out there and have some fun making your own levels!