Elysian Shadows

i have notices that most of there 3rd person 2D's like Flacos game (and his crew) and others
use square tiling.

why does no one make isometric ones anymore. i like that style better.

yeah, isometric games is cool, but i prefer "normal" 2ds.

PixelP wrote:yeah, isometric games is cool, but i prefer "normal" 2ds.

iso's are 2d, the tiles are just rotated 45 degrees and slanted to give illusion of depth.
the drawing algorithm and collision algorithms are a bit more complex tho. i think that probably the reason.

i know what isometric games are, but i mean that i like square tiling 2d games better.

Once upon a time, I was making an isometric RPG... I had it displaying a 2D array of tiles in the isometric view and you could pan around the map. That's about as far as I got.

Seems like it might get annoying to tell what's going on in an RPG environment. Turn-based, sure, but constantly scrolling isometric? I'm not sure about that.

MarauderIIC wrote:Seems like it might get annoying to tell what's going on in an RPG environment. Turn-based, sure, but constantly scrolling isometric? I'm not sure about that.

diablo is ISO...

avansc wrote:

MarauderIIC wrote:Seems like it might get annoying to tell what's going on in an RPG environment. Turn-based, sure, but constantly scrolling isometric? I'm not sure about that.

diablo is ISO...

So is Ultima Online, and I think they both work well with ISO

Yeah, I like isometric games, but it's not the type of game that we were trying to make with Elysian Shadows. JS Lemming and I were working on a project like waaay back in the day, though.

I guess I was thinking of something like XCom which has a lower camera, my bad.

I actually looked into isometric tiling a few months ago. I still don't really get the concept of drawing it though. All of the diagrams I saw were diamond shaped.. how do I fill the whole screen so that the 4 corners aren't giant black empty triangles? If anyone knows a good article or can explain it decently feel free to let me know .

This article is pretty old(1996), but I'm sure you'll find it to be exactly what you're looking for.
http://www.gamedev.net/reference/articl ... cle744.asp

Here's another link that will also help if you haven't already found it.
http://www.gamedev.net/reference/list.asp?categoryid=44

GyroVorbis wrote:JS Lemming and I were working on a project like waaay back in the day, though.

We worked on an isometric project? I don't remember that one.

JS Lemming wrote:

GyroVorbis wrote:JS Lemming and I were working on a project like waaay back in the day, though.

We worked on an isometric project? I don't remember that one.

The "hangout" for NEStix.

Thanks, Andrew.