Text Tool

The text tool is a feature in Platform Racing 2 and Platform Racing 3 that lets players type characters out instead of having to draw them.
Although one of the most popular fan suggestions in the series, the tool barely made it into either game.
==Platform Racing==
While not usable by players due to the lack of a level editor, Platform Racing had a text editor with the Trebuchet MS font that Jiggmin used for the instructions in Newbieland.
==Platform Racing 3==
The text tool was introduced for players in PR3. It uses the Action Man font found everywhere else in the game and has options to set the text size, color and its rotation.
Although one of the most popularly requested features, it was only added in last minute 4 days before the level editor was released. When revealing it, Jiggmin said:
"I didn't really intend to have a text tool in PR3's level editor, but it looks like I went and made one anyway. Ah well.""Typing words with letters". Jiggmin. May 29, 2010.
==Platform Racing 2==
The feature was later added to PR2 as a Motley Monday update in March 2013.
It uses the Verdana font and the options to change its size/rotation have been replaced with a more free-form adjuster. A button was also added to quickly delete a text box instead of having to backspace it away.
It was one of the most popular requests when Motley Monday began, where Jiggmin usually chose the most liked comments on his videos or thanked posts on his forum. It received the most likes several times, though he often skipped over it believing it would take too long, saying:
"[...] It would just be hard to implement the text tool in one day, which is the amount of time I've been devoting to these Motley Monday updates. Maybe it would be possible to do it in stages over a couple of weeks.""Comment from Jiggmin on "Motley Monday 13 - Spring Cleaning"" - YouTube
Eventually he decided to hold a vote where fans chose between it or block skins."Motley Monday 14 - Clash of the Titans" - YouTube The text tool won and proved to be much easier than Jiggmin thought, which he poked fun at it in its reveal video."Motley Monday 15 - Text Always Wins" - YouTube
==References==
Category:Platform Racing 1 Articles
Category:Platform Racing 3 Articles
Category:Platform Racing 2 Articles