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Minos Maze Maker 4+
Twisty passages unleashed!
Eduard Schwan
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- USD 17.99
- Offers In-App Purchases
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Description
Minos Maze Maker is a powerful maze generator that makes beautifully shaped and customized mazes and their solutions. You can print the mazes or export them into your newsletters, puzzle-books, school handouts, or web pages. Make them sweet and easy, or make them diabolically difficult. With Minos Maze Maker, you will be creating unique professional-looking mazes right away.
There is a free "Lite" version of the software (fully functional, with fewer features). There is also an in-app paid upgrade to a "Pro" version which offers the following extra publishing features:
* Batch-automation, letting you instantly and automatically generate up to 50 mazes at a time, great for publishing maze books.
* Mazes can grow up to 80x80 cells.
* User-defined-shape designer, letting you create any maze shape you want. Your shapes can be quickly exported/imported by other Pro users.
* New alpha-numeric shapes (in serif or sans-serif font).
* New export option for text info file.
FEATURES:
* Quickly create one, or dozens, or hundreds of wildly unique mazes.
* Choose from many built-in maze shapes: Square, Rectangles, Circle, Plus-sign, Square-hole, Donut, Heart, Bow-tie, Diamond, X, Pinwheel, UL-Wedge, LL-Wedge, UR-Wedge, LR-Wedge, Checkers, Crescent, Right-Arrow, Left-Arrow, Up-Arrow, Down-Arrow, Up-Triangle, Down-Triangle, Cross, Onion, 4-Clover, Square-Peg, Round-Peg, Mushroom, Oval-Easy, Oval-Up, Trapezoid, Pentagon, Hexagon, Octagon, 4-star, 5-star, 6-star, Chevron-Up, Chevron-Down, Chevron-Left, Chevron-Right, Rainbow-Up, Rainbow-Down. The Pro upgrade adds alpha-numeric shapes and your own user-designed shapes.
* Create mazes ranging in size from 5x5 up to 50x50 cells. The Pro upgrade increases that to 80x80.
* You are not stuck with boring old square cells... you can choose mazes to be built with square, hexagon, delta/triangle, or "octo-grid" cells.
* Draw normal walled mazes, or draw mazes with lines along all the inner paths.
* Easily choose the maze difficulty. Simply move a slider from "very easy" mazes to "very hard" mazes without worrying about all the details of how it works.
* No need for any extra commercial licensing, your generated puzzles are yours to distribute and sell.
* Maze-Phrase! You can add a word or phrase, and it will be laid along the solution path, with decoy letters along the wrong (dead-end) paths.
* Customize the cell wall colors and thicknesses, and even make them wiggly for that hand-drawn look.
* Turn on "Progress Animation" to watch the maze get built, step by step.
* Easy printing of the maze and/or solution right to your printer.
* Export high-quality images of your mazes and solution keys for layout/publishing in your own books, newsletters, social media/web/blog, classroom handouts, games, or CNC/laser-cutter machines. Supports PDF, PNG, JPEG, SVG, and POV-Ray file formats.
* Save a "snapshot" your custom layout settings so you can instantly build many mazes with the same "look".
* Mazes will always be built with only one guaranteed solution, no islands here!
* Work without a net... You can run Minos Maze Maker anywhere... you never need an internet connection to create, save, and print your mazes.
* Supports Dark Mode and Full-Screen mode.
* Save your maze documents and share them with other Minos Maze Maker users, or open them again later to edit them to create whole new mazes.
* Includes a comprehensive built-in 40 page User Guide, containing tutorials and tips and describing every option, getting you up-to-speed right away. Advanced features are explained, helping you create high-quality and uniquely personalized mazes.
(The name "Minos Maze Maker" hints at the the story of the ancient Greek king Minos who hid his Minotaur monster away in a labyrinth.)
What’s New
Version 2.0.1
-Pro: Reworked the Batch Settings so they are saved WITH the maze document now. You now have two possible workflows: (1) You can save a single set of defaults for all future batch operations, or (2) you can create "template settings" in different maze documents which would let you have different batch settings (e.g., different export directories) for different batch projects. See the User Guide "How To" section for more information.
-Pro: Changed BATCH randomize settings and restructured the user interface and updated user guide. You can now choose your own subset of the list of shapes to randomly build (Thanks April!)
-Pro: Changed BATCH "random shape" behavior. Each time a random shape is chosen during a batch session, it will no longer be chosen again. That way you will unique shapes instead of multiples of the same shape. Of course if you choose to make 20 different mazes and only allow 3 different shape types, then it will re-use shapes from your three chosen 3 until it creates 20 total mazes.
-Pro: Added a "Save Settings as Default" button on Batch sheet for easy saving of settings. This is the same as the Application menu item "Save current settings as default"
-Many wording clarifications and consistency cleanup in Intro Screens (thanks Katya!)
-Cleaned up SVG Export file a little.
-Re-organized User Guide sections so the "How To" section comes before the "Details" section.
-Added "how-to" sections to the User Guide for setting up single batch settings or multiple batch setting "templates" for professional workflows.
-BugFix: In the Batch window if NO random shapes are selected from the list, the START button is now dimmed.
-BugFix: Creating a user shape with an island will now display a single error dialog later when you try to build the maze, instead of a repeating barrage of "Shape has an island!" error messages when changing the maze size. (Thanks Riccardo!)
App Privacy
The developer, Eduard Schwan, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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Information
- Provider
- Eduard Schwan
- Size
- 71.1 MB
- Category
- Games
- Compatibility
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- Mac
- Requires macOS 10.14 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © Copyright 2023, SchwanSongs
- Price
- USD 17.99
- In-App Purchases
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- Pro Version USD 34.99