Tiled — 2D Level Editor for Game Maps

Overview

Tiled is a standalone desktop editor for building 2D tile-based maps: tile layers for rendering (ground, walls, decoration), object layers for free-form game logic (spawn points, triggers, paths), image layers for full backgrounds, and group layers for organizing all of these. It exports to its own JSON (.tmj) and XML (.tmx) formats, plus tileset companions (.tsj/.tsx), which any game engine's Tiled loader (Phaser, Godot's TileMap importer, Unity via a plugin, PixiJS) can read directly — Tiled itself has no runtime, it only authors the data.

Instructions

Install

Download the editor for Windows, macOS, or Linux from https://www.mapeditor.org/download.html, or install it from Steam or itch.io. There is no package-manager install for the desktop app on most platforms (Flathub ships a Linux build: flatpak install flathub org.mapeditor.Tiled).

Map anatomy and layer order

A Tiled map is a stack of layers, bottom to top: