App: Minos Maze Maker Lite
Developer: Eduard Schwan
Genres: Games, Puzzle, Education

Minos Maze Maker Lite 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, or school handouts.  Make them sweet and easy, or make them diabolically difficult.  With Minos Maze Maker, you will be creating unique professional-looking mazes right away.
This is the free version of Minos Maze Maker, with some of the features of the Full and Pro versions.
FEATURES:
* Quickly create one, or dozens, or hundreds of wildly unique mazes.
* Choose from several built-in maze shapes: Square, Circle, UL-Wedge, LR-Wedge, Round Peg-Square Hole, Mushroom.  The Full and Pro versions have many more.
* Create mazes ranging in size from 8x8 up to 20x20.  Full version goes from 5x5 to 50x50, Pro goes up 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.
* Quickly 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.
* Customize the cell wall colors and thicknesses, and even make them wiggly for that hand-drawn look.
* You can export high-quality maze and solution PNG images into your own word processor for re-printing in books, newsletters, social media/blogs, or classroom handouts.  No need for any extra commercial licensing, your generated puzzles are yours to distribute and sell.
* Easy printing of the maze and/or solution to your printer.
* Export high-quality images of your mazes and solution keys for layout/publishing in your own books, newsletters, social media/blog, classroom handouts, games, or CNC/laser-cutter machines.  Lite version supports PNG and the Full version also supports PDF, JPEG, SVG, and POV-Ray file formats.
* "Snapshot" your custom layout settings so you can instantly build other mazes with the same "look".
* Mazes will always be built with only one 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.
* 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.

Release notes:
-Bumped minimum supported Mac OS version to 10.14 (Mojave), and native support for Apple Silicon Macs.
-Now has more shapes available: Square, Circle, UL-Wedge, LR-Wedge, Round Peg-Square Hole, Mushroom
-Finally added mini icons for each shape in the puzzle shape drop-down menu, for quick visual identification (Thanks Marina & others)
-Added "Arrows" back in as a new Start/End style (Thanks Marina.)
-Added the iso-Triangle (Delta) cell shape style (thanks for the nudge, Nick & Lisa!)
-Export has a major UI update, now there is a single EXPORT menu item, which brings up a window for you to choose the export directory and if you want to export the answer file at the same time.
-Maze building is faster, and searches deeper/harder for good maze solutions.
-Added ability to turn OFF the outer wall openings on Start/End areas (Thanks Marina.)
-You can now choose a letter for the “Start” and "End" markers.  Note that the character can be Unicode in any language/alphabet, even emoji (Thanks Marina.)
-Added EXPORT button down next to PRINT button (Thanks Marina and others)
-Added a "Set all colors to B&W" option to App menu, for easy global change for printed publications (Thanks Marina!)
-Added (?) button at lower right of main window for instant access to the user guide.
-Export has a "Reveal Directory in Finder" button, which will open the directory you have chosen, so you can easily access it from the Finder later.
-Maze title text font size will auto-shrink as the text gets longer, to reduce problems with verbose paragraph text as a title.  Works on the Preview and on the printed pages.
-If you choose Walls:Paths to be either "outer wall and path" or "path", then the maze builder tries to insure only a single path from the start and end cells.
-The Application "Preferences" menu item is now renamed (per Apple's change in MacOS 13) to "Settings".
-You can now choose your own font for the Start/End Marker letters.
-Cell Shape popup  menu now has the common/technical shape names listed, and the names are consistent with the Stats display now. (e.g., Sigma, Delta...).
-Added "Contact Author" help menu item that sends me an e-mail.
-Removed the tab numbers at the top of the Intro Screen to help de-clutter screen.
-The Main and Layout tabs you selected when you quit the app will be remembered and popped back to when you run it again.