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Kavan · 09-08-2013

Well, the isometric engine is finished. It's pretty much ready to start developing a game with. However, I won't be doing anything with it for the meantime, as I am no graphics artist and I have no one else, therefore I can't build any sort of decent-looking game.

I may just license the software out to interested parties. However, I'd imagine that I'd be updating and adding a lot of stuff to the engine as different people need different functionality.

So, for those that may be interested, here's some technical jargon about the engine:

Spoiler

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Kavan I'm watching... Join Date: Sep 2011 Location: Northern Ireland, UK Posts: 644	Well, the isometric engine is finished. It's pretty much ready to start developing a game with. However, I won't be doing anything with it for the meantime, as I am no graphics artist and I have no one else, therefore I can't build any sort of decent-looking game. I may just license the software out to interested parties. However, I'd imagine that I'd be updating and adding a lot of stuff to the engine as different people need different functionality. So, for those that may be interested, here's some technical jargon about the engine: Spoiler Technical Jargon: Whilst a lot of isometric games are 3D, (technically orthographic but w/e) this engine is actually 2-dimensional. This makes it far easier for graphics artists as you don't need to make models, you can draw 2D sprites. The engine can run about 200-300 sprites on-screen before it starts to drop below 60 FPS. Some miscellaneous stuff: OpenGL ES 1.1 rendering pipeline. Written in Java. Map scrolling. Objects culled to the screen dimensions for performance. Perspective depth-sorting for any 3D object dimensions without a Z-buffer (purely software rendering, hardest part of isometric engines). Supports object layering. 3D bounds checking. Touch event simplifier (instead of all that MotionEvent bull****).