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psykopath — Isometric Game Engine v0.1
Published: 2008-03-07 00:33:28 +0000 UTC; Views: 10282; Favourites: 46; Downloads: 250
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A quick try at an isometric engine.Arrow keys to move. You can only climb up block that are one step higher or lower.
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This is a great start, I haven't seen this done in flash before.
Do you know why the FPS is so low? For me it varies between 27 and 34. It might have to do with my browser, or just flash in general.
Of course, in it's current state 30fps is fine, but I'm sure you would want double that once you get the game to move smoother.
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I had it set to 33 
And it's been done plenty, I'm surprised you've never seen it. [link]
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Ok, cool.
I guess I should visit the flash section more often.
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I seem to remember commenting on this already, but apparently I didn't. Great work, this is awesome.
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I thought you had too....
Thanks anyway
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thats so cool, can u please put out it in a .zip if u want to share it ?
i really need that for my website
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Amusing. Now what?
Clarification: SUPER DUPER AWESOME!
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Now what? An MMORPG. Yeah boi!
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When I finally release what I've been using this to develop, you'll die from crapping yourself
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Woah, I was building something almost exactly like this a couple of days ago!
Anyway, nice work! Am I right to say you're using a multidimensional array, and your boundaries are being checked not with a for loop but by the position of where the ball is in the array?
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In this version the original map is a multidimension array of heights.
That array is looped through and a new one-dimension array is made of Block objects ( a class instance with x, y, z, height, importance).
The Blocks are drawn into once when they are initially created.
Then for drawing the map I sort the block array by y, x, z, importance in descending order (using Array.sortOn), then just loop through that array and do addChild() (importance is to layer things in once position eg: player on road on block)
There are drawbacks to doing it this way that I only discovered afterwards, but I'm working around them.
In the newer version of this (I haven't submitted it yet), the map is made from a compressed string, which is exported from another flash app made for painting the map.But it works the same way, that string is translated into an array of blocks then sorted and drawn.
The array can be more than just blocks, any object with the properties x, y, z, importance, and the appropriate positioning functions.
Epic comment is epic, its 2 in the morning and im rambling 
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Hehe, I think I got most of that 
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Also, I was thinking if the ball was behind a wall, the wall would appear at 50% opacity. Not sure how easy this would be..
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This is cool, I was thinking you could use it to make a maze game, This would be a good 1st level.
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Well not bad what can i say
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So good I haven't even seen it?
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nope, mine had smooth scrolling
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Mine does now that I've put in pixel movement.
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I don't remember yours...
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Nice.
It would be cool if you gave it non tile base movement.
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you've out done yourself once again. 10 man points
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