Mario RPG: Top-Down/Isometric

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Mario at his pad. You see the image from an overhead diagonal view. But try to see the image from a two-dimensional view. Imagine Mario isn't 3D but 2D, or even, imagine he's pseudo-3D. That's one way you can make top-down/isometric graphics in a game. See pic below.

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Bowser looks 3D, but he's not. He's 2-D drawn at a certain angle. You can do the same for the hero and all the other stuff in your game. I don't know how isometric game physics work, but I imagine isometric worlds as pieces of paper and all the buildings and platforms as drawings on the paper and the hero walking all over the paper.

I'd imagine you can make it using the 8-directional movement behavior, but it would involve making tons of animations for every direction. It might be a huge undertaking for one person but I think it's doable.

I'd imagine you can make it using the 8-directional movement behavior, but it would involve making tons of animations for every direction. It might be a huge undertaking for one person but I think it's doable.

I hadn't thought of that. Good idea!

I tried to make an isometric game a while ago with r0j0's help. His isometric sorting algo was very good, but a little too cpu intensive with too many objects on the screen and ontop of that I hadn't collisions working also :/.

I found a really interesting game maker example here:

Link

You need game maker installed to open the gmk file.

I let a friend compile it. I uploaded it to my dropbox -> Link.

I looked at the sourcecode via gmk file, but I couldn't port it to C2 :/

Maybe someone else could.^^

edit: arrow keys to move and z to jump

I tried to make an isometric game a while ago with r0j0's help. His isometric sorting algo was very good, but a little too cpu intensive with too many objects on the screen and ontop of that I hadn't collisions working also :/.

I found a really interesting game maker example here:

Link

You need game maker installed to open the gmk file.

I let a friend compile it. I uploaded it to my dropbox -> Link.

I looked at the sourcecode via gmk file, but I couldn't port it to C2 :/

Maybe someone else could.^^

edit: arrow keys to move and z to jump

Why not just copy the code as closely as possible?

Because game makers structure is very...distinct. There are so many options to choose, where you can input the code. It's not that logical and easy as in Construct, where I know, it reads my code from top to bottom in the written order. In GM every single object has its own 4-5 options where I can input code. Can't describe it, because I don't understand it.

I already posted the demo >here<.

Maybe someone else will port it. I like the demo because has working collisions and is less cpu intensive.

Because game makers structure is very...distinct. There are so many options to choose, where you can input the code. It's not that logical and easy as in Construct, where I know, it reads my code from top to bottom in the written order. In GM every single object has its own 4-5 options where I can input code. Can't describe it, because I don't understand it.

I already posted the demo >here<.

Maybe someone else will port it. I like the demo because has working collisions and is less cpu intensive.

Game Maker was a pain for me when I tried it, but I'm not that much into coding myself.

Thanks for the link! The graphics look like they're from Mario & Luigi. Hopefully someone will demo it soon.