Quickly Learn to Create Isometric Games Like Clash of Clans or AOE

Isometric view in simple words is nothing but creating an illusion of 3D game for a game created in 2D.

Isometric view can be created by one of the most common and efficient approach called tile – based approach.

As isometric view creates an illusion of 3D, sometimes it also referred as pseudo 3D or 2.5D.

Earlier games like Q*bert from 1982 was one of the first games to use an isometric view.

Today big games like Clash of Clans, Age of Empires use this kind of projection.

Calculation for positioning tiles in a way such that it creates a 3D view of gameplay is complex.

Mapping actual location of the object in a world space / Game space to the location in isometric view is complex and time-consuming.

Unity does not have any direct tool or support for Isometric projections.

Most of the 3rd party Tools available until now, were not strong enough or optimized enough for developing smooth and proper Isometric games.

Calculations for map generation are heavy, for now, no tool was right enough, to load Isometric maps at an optimized rate.

Unity as a 3D engine is quite good for developing 3D games

Of course, it comes with the overhead of creating and rendering 3D objects.

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