TileForge Studio User Guide
Everything you need to create tile maps in your browser.
TileForge Studio is a browser-based 2D tile map editor by EchoForge Studios. It supports TMJ/TMX file formats (Tiled-compatible), procedural map generation, engine-specific export, and cloud storage — all without installing anything.
Tip: Context-sensitive help
Press F1 at any time inside TileForge to open the help page for whatever tool or panel you are currently using.
Quick Start
Getting Started
Create your first map, load a tileset, and paint tiles in under 5 minutes.
Keyboard Shortcuts
Complete reference for every hotkey in the editor.
Editor Basics
Tools
Pencil, rectangle, fill, eraser, select, property brush, object, and terrain brush.
Layers
Tile layers, object layers, visibility, locking, reordering, and renaming.
Tilesets & Palette
Loading tilesets, selecting tiles and stamps, spacing/margin settings.
Tile Editors
Tile Animations
Define animated tiles with frame sequences and per-frame timing.
Tile Collisions
Two collision systems: per-tile shapes and per-cell property painting.
Procedural Generation
Map Generators
Six generators: forest, village, dungeon, cave, ruins, and interior.
PixelLab AI Tilesets
Generate tileset graphics using AI (requires API key).