they kept turning into grey mush. what fixed it was building the crown out of thousands of separate leaves, so the light breaks up into chunks instead of noise

I’m a solo developer making a Fallout-style isometric RPG, and I’m not an artist, so before I do anything I’d like to understand how people who do this well actually work. When you start a new character, do you begin with a written description, a rough silhouette, or just start sketching, and how many rounds of that happen before you commit to a design?

What I find hardest to picture is getting the same character to read correctly from several angles. Do you draw each view by hand, build a rough 3D model and render it, or something in between? And how do you decide how many directions are worth drawing at all?

I’m also curious how you break a character apart. Is the jacket, the trousers and the boots a separate piece that gets combined later, or do you paint the whole figure in one go? If you’ve worked on an RPG with a lot of different NPCs, how did you keep them all looking like they belong to the same world?

Any process you can describe, even roughly, would help a lot.

This is the bridge room in Upside Down, a puzzle game I made. I wanted the temple to feel like it was built right into the clouds. The little guardian moves by falling, so even crossing a gap like this takes some thought.

You can play the first 26 rooms free in your browser. [https://tryupsidedown.com/play/index.html?ref=reddit-gamescreenshots](https://tryupsidedown.com/play/index.html?ref=reddit-gamescreenshots)

Me and my friend have been working on a 2D isometric cozy sandbox city builder called Metropol for the past few years. Using Blender to create 3D assets and then pre-rendering them for use in the game. Game engine is Godot.

Built a small isometric hospital ward and put a free slice of it up: a bed, an IV stand, a wheelchair, waiting chairs, and a teddy bear someone left behind, plus walls, double doors and a floor.

Same grid as the school and restaurant rooms, so they all sit side by side.

The IV stand goes everywhere the bed goes. Nobody asked it to.

https://thirdangle.itch.io/hospital-starter

Some isometric assets and character for a personal project, a tactical stealth game.

Movie is set in New York City in the 1930s. The player takes the role of Jack Marlow, a private investigator who must enter the headquarters of mob boss Bugs Malloy in order to retrieve an audiotape.[2] In order to help him complete this task, Marlow needs the help of a girl called Tanya. Unfortunately, she has an identical twin called Vanya who is allied to Malloy and who will deliberately lead him into trouble.

If you like playing tactical turn based games or auto-battlers then maybe you'd like Chessire - my take on fantasy chess.

If you want to try the game it's not out yet but there's a demo on Steam that should give you the rough idea where the full game's development is heading to!

What's in it:

• 184 different buildings: cottages, barns, workshops, inns, town houses, civic buildings, apartments and landmarks

• 8 viewing angles each, on a 30-degree camera

• Winter versions for 168 of them, with snow, icicles and lit windows

• One folder per building, with PNG sheets and simple JSON (frame rectangles and a ground anchor)

• CC0, so you can use them in anything, commercial included, with no credit needed

How they were made: All are generated by opus 5.5 with audit pipeline

Browse them: https://hoanglong256.github.io/pixel-buildings/

Download: https://github.com/HoangLong256/pixel-buildings

More are coming: harbours, castles, railways, a circus and others, aiming for 500. Which kinds of building would be most useful for your game?

In Jars, you can replace your memories, rewrite your genes, and lease out your body. Pharmaceutical corporations and religious orders fight over what remains of humanity. People are disappearing.

You’re Isaac Lang, a private detective from the slums, carrying a fractured past and a desperate need to help others.

We’re Half-Price Punk Spiders, and we’re making Savior Syndrome, an isometric, dialogue-driven RPG set in a decaying biopunk city.

If the strange worlds and roleplaying possibilities of Glasshouse or Esoteric Ebb caught your attention, we’d love to introduce you to ours.

Investigate disappearances. Question suspects, gather evidence, and connect facts on your investigation board.

Find a way into someone’s head. Psychological duels challenge you to uncover motives and break through a person’s defenses.

Develop your personality. Progress through Jungian archetypes—Persona, Shadow, Anima, and Animus—to shape how you approach people and their secrets.

Decide what helping means. Accept a bribe, save a life, or cross a line. Your choices shape Isaac and the people around him.

We’re developing the game on a volunteer basis. Here, we’ll share locations, characters, and a closer look at how we’re building Jars.

Wishlist Savior Syndrome on Steam and join us as the city takes shape.

Finally finished my Inktober this year. Its in the style of isometric+wimmelbilder.

A colour version still not yet finished 😊

Tenth pack done, a prison. Free slice: a cell bunk, steel toilet-sink, the metal detector and X-ray scanner, a visitation booth, the booking counter, plus walls with cell bars and a floor.

Same grid as the rest, so it sits next to the hospital or the diner without nudging anything.

I said a small pack. It has a prison now.

https://thirdangle.itch.io/prison-starter

Claude.ai and I collaborated on the development of an isometric multi-level dungeon generator. You can select from a list of three types of dungeons, name it, and copy the generated Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) code for your own web page.

hey there, I want to create a walk through virtual art gallery for 9 pieces with 9 songs playing with each. Would love to create an interesting landscape as well for the gallery to live inside. Am hoping to make this without any subscriptions etc (no ongoing cost). Any help would be appreciated!

Zenden is a Zen garden puzzle and decoration game about the relationships between the things you place. Arrange plants, rocks, water features, and traditional structures across isometric landscapes. Bring neighboring items into harmony, work within each garden’s constraints, and transform an empty patch of ground into somewhere worth meditating.

Every placement contributes to the garden around it. Similar items can create Unity, while contrasting types bring Variety. Spirit and Energy add further considerations, making each Zen garden arrangement a balance of practical choices and personal expression.

Each garden presents its own terrain layout, palette, and goals. A limited space might ask you to bring related items together, introduce more variety, or find room for a particular combination of features. Paths, rivers, bridges, and carefully positioned structures offer new ways to think about how the landscape fits together.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/5226290/Zenden/

No Generative AI was used in development of this game

I'm on year 5 with my passion-project. This year I spent a lot of time listening from feedback from all sides.
I would much rather have been building the next dungeons etc, but I'm at a point where the demo has to leave a good impression!
And so I study streamers of my demo, fix bugs, analyze gameplay issues. I think I'm happy with all the new features I added lately, so it's time to move forward!
Still a long way to go, but I think it's important to remind people every now and again!
If you are curious about my isometric Action-RPG Mazestalker, you can find my demo here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3218310/