Isometric games

[NigeC]

I can think of quite a few other options, that could do it, Awakening could, in true 3D but the image quality wouldn't be very good, I could do it in Flash, but I'm not likely to get much useful support.. the Flash community is huge but you tend to get useful answers like "do a search" moved, or some wanna be who has read a book once on Qbasic

[delta]

The question you have to ask yourself isn't so much whether it can be done, but whether DizzyAGE is the best engine for the job (Does it make it easy to do?).

I don't know enough about it to answer that.

basically? no, probably not. it was never intended to make isometric games (it may not even be possible), or top-down games for that matter.

the reason i did the top down TLoD game in it was because i knew how to use the game engine, and i like a challenge!

i have no plans - at all, ever - to do an isometric Dizzy game.

[xelanoimis]

Dizzyage croaks because it can't find a sound device

You can disable the sound from setup/ini and play without it, though for TLOD it wouldn't be a good idea

[delta]

You can disable the sound from setup/ini and play without it, though for TLOD it wouldn't be a good idea

TLoD is stil playable without the sound, although you don't get the full effect.

[NigeC]

The PC I originally tried it on has a dodgy harddrive and one by one system files disappear, the sound went about a month ago, its amazing it still works, I can't install anything that uses the windows installer.. I should really install a new hard drive lol

I've played it on the other PC though, and had a go at the top down view in DizzyAGE, early days

I think everything in the last year with the Lassie engine was things it wasn't supposed to do, its designed as a point and click engine based on the Monkey Island 3 game type controls, i had it doing a Dizzy type game and also Myst style twice

I totally agree the sound is awsome in TLoD and it wouldn't be the same without it, its the best sound in a game I;ve heard for a long time, well done Delta

[delta]

I've not quite thought about any problems regarding collisions etc (with it being isometric), however the bounding box of dizzy doesn't have to be the same size as the dizzy tile (i don't think anyway), so that wouldn't be too much of an issue

I've just re-read this thread for some reason, and knowing now more than I knew then, my quote above doesn't mention the main problem. You simply can't have a diagonal bounding box for anything (such as the character boundary) in DizzyAGE. These things are drawn by the engine as horizontal and vertical lines, so making a DizzyAGE game where everything was diagonal would, I think, be completely impossible.