Minos Maze Maker 4+

Twisty passages unleashed‪!‬

Eduard Schwan

    • USD 14.99
    • Offers In-App Purchases

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Description

Minos Maze Maker is a versatile maze generator that creates myriad mazes and their solutions for you to print or use in your own publications. Add these royalty-free puzzles to your newsletters, make and sell your own books, or even craft games from them. Make them sweet and easy, or make them diabolically difficult. You will be building and printing 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:
* Bulk-Builder automation, letting you instantly and automatically generate up to 100 mazes at a time, great for quickly publishing maze books.
* Mazes up to 80x80 dimensions.
* User-shape editor, create any maze shape you want. Your shapes can be quickly exported/imported by other Pro users.
* New alpha-numeric shapes (in a number of different fonts.)
* Fancy formatted export options and informational text file describing the maze settings.

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, Infinity. The Pro upgrade adds alpha-numeric shapes and your own user-designed shapes.
* Mazes can range from 5x5 up to 50x50 cells. The Pro upgrade goes up to 80x80.
* Mazes can be be built with square, hexagon, delta/triangle, or "octo-grid" cells.
* All created mazes are yours to use and publish and make money with, no copyright restrictions or restrictive "commercial use" clauses!
* Work without a net... you never need an internet connection to create, save, and print your mazes.
* Your work is safely yours. Your mazes stay on your computer. Minos Maze Maker never requires you to create an account, and never stores any of your information in the cloud.
* Bulk-Build and export up to 100 different mazes at a time, using the Pro Bulk-Builder.
* Draw normal walled mazes, or draw lines along all the inner paths.
* Easily change 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.
* 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, games, classroom handouts, 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 other mazes with the same "look".
* Mazes will always be built with only one guaranteed solution, no islands here!
* Supports Dark Mode and Full-Screen mode.
* Save your maze files and share them with other Minos Maze Maker users, or open them again later to edit them to create whole new mazes.
* Comprehensive built-in 50+ 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 2.1.0

* Maze building now works a little harder to find more possible maze solutions, and more accurately chooses between shorter and longer paths (based on difficulty.)
* All Font-chooser popup-menus (Title, Maze-Phrase, S/E letters,...) now display the list of fonts *in* the font itself for WYSIWYG choosing.
* Better error messaging for exact-fit Maze-Phrases, giving better hints about what went wrong and how to fix the problem.
* With the REVERT menu action, you can now restore to prior file revisions! You can save a puzzle, generate later ones, then revert to any prior saved one!
* New "Infinity" (lemniscate) shape added.
* Added a separate path color for the SOLUTION page, so that you can now have a "Path-only" maze with a black path for the puzzle, and a (different) light gray path for the solution side, allowing you to then set the solution marker to be a more visible black line.
* SVG Export files are a little more friendly when importing into other software.
* SVG FONT PICKER! You can now choose between different SVG Font families to use when exporting your puzzles as SVG... see the new "SVG Export" Tab on the Application Settings window.
* Added other arrow style options (Thick, thin, pointy) for the solution arrows. (Thanks Jen)
* Pro: Bulk-Builder: Updated maximum number of mazes built from 50 to 100!
* Pro: Bulk-Builder: Major change to Bulk Maze Phrases, now you simply type or copy/paste the batch maze phrases into a text box. You no longer have to create (and then import) a separate file. See Bulk-Build under the newly-renamed "Maze Phrases" tab.
* Pro: Bulk-Builder: Renamed the "Batch Build" menu item to the more common "Bulk Builder" wording in the software and the user guide and web site and App Store.
* Pro: Bulk-Builder: will now detect any errors when building each maze, and write an _Err.txt file in place of exported files, and that text file will contain an error message of what went wrong, followed by the settings of the puzzle that could not be built.
* Pro: Bulk-Builder: Added a fancy new RANGE slider control so you can pick a lower and upper bound for random maze SIZE and random maze DIFFICULTY.
* Pro: Bulk-Builder: Added a STEPPER control after the "How Many" slider, because sliding precisely to 100 is a drag.
* Pro: Alpha-Numeric Shapes now have a new (limited) font-choice menu, instead of the prior simple serif/sans checkbox, giving more font variety.
* Pro: User Shape Editor: drawing/erasing/editing now has UNDO!
* Pro: User Shape Editor: added a new "Fill with Shape" menu that lets you pre-fill the shape area with an existing geometric shape to start your own design from (and there was much rejoicing!)
* Pro: User Shape Editor: Added ability to hold down SHIFT key while mouse-dragging to constrain straight compass lines, and OPTION key will constrain diagonal lines (Thanks Jen!)
Bugs Fixed:
* Export now lets you turn on FANCY puzzle export ("[x] including title" checkbox at top), which will format the puzzle with your title in the image!
* Added a checkbox in the Export dialog letting you turn on/off a warning if about to overwrite existing files when exporting. (Thanks Thomas!)
* Newly opened documents (either a new empty maze or a saved maze file) no longer think they are altered and need to be saved.
* If you open a document that references fonts that are NOT on your computer, you now get a warning dialog that fonts were not found, and your fonts will be changed to default fonts instead. (Thanks Michael!)
* Added a new "no-direction" image for the Start/End wall direction buttons when you drag the marker into the interior of the maze. (Thanks JamesR)
* The printed page margins are wider now (Thanks SteveD!)
* Pro: Bulk-Builder: Hitting the STOP button now halts the currently-progressing maze-build too.
* Pro: Bulk-Builder MazePhrase new detects wrap-around and issues a warning message.
-and much more-

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