Top-down game examples

#1 Dragon Spirit looks pretty good(ok, the backgrounds are 3/4th, but the character art is all top down).

I think it depends on the creature... Snakes, flying dragons, fish and many bugs look ok from above, but with other critters and humanoids you seem to loose a lot of detail and personality

*edit - changed link to one without an exploit*

#2 Thanks for the post Joshua.

Yeah, I'm primarily concerned with humanoids.

I would like to write a top-down rpg tutorial for my t2d wrapper, but humanoids tend to look rather bland.

So i am thinking I'll have to do an isometric perspective, which is a lot harder!

#3 Nah, you don't have to go ISO. Check out the SNES and GBA Zelda games(heck, 90% of the 16 bit RPG's for that matter). They all use 'square' tiles. Carefull placement of the tilemaps and setting the collision poly for your characters to be shorter than the actual sprite are pretty much all you need to do to pull it off. Of course, you DO have to be more carefull with your art assets so that everything looks right, but it's not that bad(unless, like me, you can't draw).

Hardest part, script wise, will be z-sorting your character sprites.

#4 @Joshua, if you (or anyone else) knows some good isometric tutorials from a game-logic perspective, i'd love for you to share them.

I am using t2d but obviously an isometric layer needs to be implemented for it :)

#5 All,

Just a quick warning, I use AVG as my anti-virus protection method and it detected a trojan horse at the 'Dragon Spirit' Site, this might be false positive, but just in case I thought I'd let folks know.

Note: The trojan is in the pop-up, not the main page.


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#6 Ah didn't notice it, maybe Firefox blocked it. Thanks for the warning though.

#7 IMPORTANT:
I confirm that it has a trojan!

Joshua, can you, please, remove that link from your post or replace it with non-infected one? Thank you!

#8 Bah, it's just the ad sites. and i bet it's not a "trojan" but instead "spyware"

if you are a sucker and install the active X controlls that say "this is signed by 'INSTALL ME NOW!! FOR GREAT STUFF!!' click accept to install" then you got what's comming to you. (and statistically speaking, you have already been 0wN3|> many times already)