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{{stub}}'''''TUME''''' ( ''The Universal Map Editor'' ) is an open source tile based map editor (released in June 18, 2000 under '''Mozilla Public License 1.1.'''){{ref|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Public_License}} originally created and designed by Greg Marquez, John Alvarado and Gregg Tavares of [[Echidna]] for Amiga computer and later ported to MS-DOS by Dan Chang at [[Virgin Games]] request (commissioned by  Dr. Stephen H. Clarke-Willson{{ref|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Clarke-Willson}} an American video game producer and executive producer in the early 1990s and Vice-President of [[Virgin Interactive]] from 1991 to 1994). From 1991 to 1996 it was licensed to many video game development companies and used to create levels, maps, stages and tables for many 8-bit and 16-bit games. It is currently avaiable as freeware and it's fully usable with DOSBox emulator.
[[File:TUME Graphical User Interface (Alt).png|thumb|right]]
''TUME'' distinguishes itself from other map editors of the era in several ways. One, it copies the keyboard layout of [[Deluxe Paint]], the most popular image editing software at the time.

It has no intrinsic limits. It can edit multiple maps, each made from tiles of any arbitrary pixel size. It can even make maps made from tiles of tiles of arbitrary size nested to an arbitrary level.

It supports editing multiple maps at once (or ''Rooms'' as called in ''TUME'' software). It also allows an arbitrary number of layers per map allowing tiles to be stacked.

Another unique feature is that it features no graphic editing tools, relying on external applications like Deluxe Paint.

''TUME'' saves a generic IFF format file (IFF standard was defined by [[Electronic Arts]]) and then relies on customized converters called '''TUMEPacks'''. These tools take the various graphics, maps, layers and based on various settings create all kinds of data including not only the graphics but things like height maps for collisions, logic mappings to map an image to a certain meaning internal to a game's logic, replacements for when areas of a map needed to be replaced at runtime during a game and many other types of data.

''TUME'' can edit maps for just about any 8 bit or 16 bit system , including [[Mega Drive]], [[Master System]], [[Game Gear]], SNES,  Gameboy, Turbo-Grafx, Famicom, NES, IBM, and Amiga (hence the "Universal" in its name).

==Games utilising TUME==
''TUME'' was used as the map editor for a number of [[Sega Mega Drive]] and [[Mega CD]] games including:
*''[[Caesars Palace]]''
*''[[Cool Spot]]''
*''[[Disney's Aladdin]]''
*''[[Earthworm Jim]]''
*''[[Earthworm Jim 2]]''
*''[[Gargoyles]]''
*''[[Global Gladiators]]''
*''[[Mickey's Ultimate Challenge]]''
*''[[My Paint: The Animated Paint Program]]''
*''[[Pitfall: The Mayan Adventure]]''
*''[[RoboCop Versus The Terminator]]''
*''[[The Jungle Book]]''
*''[[The Lion King]]''
*''[[The Terminator (Mega-CD)]]''

==Gallery==
<gallery>
TUME The Universal Map Editor Official Demo.mp4|The Official ''TUME'' Demo/Tutorial Video
TUME User's Guide.pdf|Official User's Guide (by [[Echidna]])
</gallery>

==Downloads==
{{Download|file=TUME.zip|version='''00.2667p (2000-06-18)'''{{ref|http://web.archive.org/web/20070202064352/members.aol.com/opentume/html/download.html}} 

'''Released under Mozilla Public License 1.1.'''{{ref|https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/MPL/1.1/}}|filesize=2,6 MB}} 
 
'''Operating System''': MS-DOS

==External links==
*[https://games.greggman.com/game/tume___the_universal_map_editor/ Gregg Tavares page about ''TUME'' at games.greggman.com]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20130623021835/http://opentume.com/ ''TUME'' Home Page at the Wayback Machine (archived June 23, 2013)]
*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interchange_File_Format  Info about the ''IFF'' standard (''Interchange File Format'') on Wikipedia]

==References==
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