Hide & Seize map editor

Ground

Flag and players

Brush

Paint on either half: the other half follows, turned round, so both sides always match. Ground paints round the flag and players; right-click clears a square to grass, taking away anything on it.

Name Made by About it Shuffle each game

How much of each half's woods and long grass moves a square each game, so the far side has to be explored.

Size

Width Length

Width 11–45, length 15–61 (odd: the middle row is shared). Resizing keeps the middle and trims or adds at the edges.

Your maps

New map

This map has changes you haven't saved. Starting a new one drops them: Save first to keep them.

Start from

Size Its own size Small, 17 × 27 Medium, 25 × 37 Large, 33 × 49 Huge, 45 × 61

A copy at another size keeps the middle of the map: columns are added or cut at both sides, and rows at the back of each half.

Paste a map

Paste the text of a map file (from Copy, or someone else's file).

Making a map

Painting

Pick a kind of ground, or the flag or a player, then click or drag on the map. The brush paints 1, 3×3 or 5×5 squares of ground at a time, round the flag and the players. Right-click clears a square back to grass, taking away a player or the flag there, and clicking a player that's already there takes it away too. Ctrl+Z undoes, Ctrl+Y redoes.

You paint both halves at once: whatever you put on one half appears on the other, turned round (Red's half is Blue's turned 180°), so the two sides are always the same ground. The middle row is shared, so it mirrors left to right as well.

What a map needs

One flag with a square of room on every side (its eight neighbours are the base, so they can't be rocks or water), at least 3 rows back from the middle; between 1 and 12 players; and a way for every player to reach the other flag, and for it to be carried home from there. Rocks block the way; water can be waded, at 3 moves a square, and soaks whoever wades it. The checks on the right say what's missing and give advice. Only maps with no problems can be played, but you can save one at any stage.

The players you place are the team: put down as many Scouts, Runners, Shadows, Hunters and Guards as you like, up to 12. Red gets the same team, in the same places on its half.

Saving and sharing

Save keeps the map in this browser, and saved maps that can be played appear under Your maps in the game's New game. Play it saves and opens the game with it picked.

Export file downloads the map as a small file, and Copy puts the same text on the clipboard. Import file and Paste open someone else's. To get a map added to the game for everyone, export it and send the file to adam@hideandseize.com.

The file

A map file is JSON: format ("hide-and-seize-map"), version (1), name, author, blurb, shuffle (0 to 0.4), and blueHalf, Blue's half as one line of text per row, from the middle row down to Blue's back row. In each row: . grass, , long grass, T woods, ^ hill, # rocks, ~ water, = bridge, : ford, F Blue's flag, and s r d h g for a Scout, Runner, Shadow, Hunter or Guard. It can be edited in any text editor too.

Design, code and content developed with the assistance of AI (Anthropic Claude).
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