Author: thor.arisland

Today I was looking through OpenGameArt for readymade character sprites to use in the Isogame project and found that the spritesheets were all compilations of multiple sprites instead of discrete files. For a prototype I find that using separate files is easier in the first iteration, but extracting by hand is too tedious so I Read More …

After doing some experiments using different grids in Affinity Designer I found that the 2:1 Triangular grid format is the best for this particular 2D to Isometric coordinate function (the one I found here). I’ve also managed to break up the canvas into layers, fix rendering issues by waiting for the sprites to load in Read More …

I finally got around to moving the online isometric “game engine” project to its own git repo here: https://github.com/tcarisland/isogame As usual, the app is deployed to: https://tcarisland.no/isogame/ I also thought it was a good idea to do a screen recording on how it’s worked and how it works now.

Managed to create some very basic sprite support for the Isogame-project. Currently it only draws a basic grass tile, but since everything is rerendered every time the active tile moves the next step is creating support for multiple layers. Try it here: www.tcarisland.com/isogame

At this point I’ve managed to put enough functionality from the Electron.js application in the online application and the key listener works. Try it here: www.tcarisland.com/isogame