isocity
Games
city builder
SHOW HN2019
593points
104comments
#19of 2,195 in 2019
Top 1%of 2019 by points
How HN took it
LovedMost comments that take a side are positive
16 positive, 21 neutral or asking, 2 mixed, 2 critical, out of 41 comments about the project. Thread score +0.38.
Design: 5 for, 1 againstIdea: 4 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Fun and simple to play
From 4 comments
Nice, simple, and fun! I also appreciate that you're very open to contributions! :)
devadvance on HNThis is a super fun app and I'm also very impressed by the elegant simplicity and readable code of this project! The tools you provided are perfect -- they offer just enough…
kfarr on HNI spent a good 20min building little towns. Nice post.
gherkinnn on HNFantastic. Like a mini sim city. Probably works better than the original PS version.
jonbennett18 on HN
Nice visual style
From 2 comments
Love it! Kenney makes some really nice assets. You might want to check out Raccoon Media https://racoon.media/ and Quaternius http://quaternius.com/assets.html for some expanded…
mysterydip on HNThis is beautiful. I think that the success of games like Transport Tycoon is in large part down to an undefined satisfaction that comes from the graphic style.
bump-ladel on HN
Objections
Tile selection requires scrolling a long vertical list
From 3 comments
i like it. Having to scroll through long vertical list of tiles to find the one you want is kind-of a pain though. Other than that, nifty. :)
masukomi on HNNothing wrong with a scrolling layout, it's just a bit overrestricted: https://i.imgur.com/76BML6a.png Filling some of the whitespace with scrollable grid of pieces would go a…
zamadatix on HNPerhaps make the list horizontal because of the highrises wasting space on the vertical list?
_nalply on HN
No touch or drag support initially
From 2 comments
Would you mind adding support for touch devices?
sansnomme on HNReally cool project! Small suggestion, some indication of which type of tile is currently selected might be nice (like maybe highlight it or something).
yissp on HN
Sidebar not compact enough
From 1 comment
You need to make the scrollable sidebar on the left much more compact, it's not very usable currently
11235813213455 on HN
Requests
Highlight the selected tile
From 2 comments
Really cool project! Small suggestion, some indication of which type of tile is currently selected might be nice (like maybe highlight it or something).
yissp on HNA 2D array might be easier to scroll through. Also, I suggest highlighting the currently selected piece.
lonelappde on HN
Tile rotation
From 2 comments
Small suggestion for UI improvement: while hovering over a tile, and pressing (say) the R key, you could rotate the tile by 90 degrees.
amelius on HNlive demo works on mobile, looks very nice, but not seeing rotate controls https://victorribeiro.com/isocity/ Doesn't seem to implement rotation - it can reveal obscured objects.…
hyperpallium on HN
Save or share city via URL
From 1 comment
It would be great if this stored the city as data in the URL so we could share them.
ynniv on HN
Click and drag to paint tiles
From 1 comment
I agree, really cool, also have a small suggestion -- it'd be nice if you could click and drag to "draw" tiles into the main board. Currently you can only click tile-by-tile.
anonytrary on HN
Questions
What does a one-liner map snippet produce
From 1 comment
Super cool! Anyone recognize what this makes? ``` map=Array(7).fill(Array(7).fill(3)).map((a,i)=>a.map((x,n)=>[0,i>3&&n<3?1:3]));drawMap() ```
mLuby on HN
Alternatives named
Caesar 3
From 1 comment
You can make some really nice looking games using isometric tiles, Ceasar 3 comes to mind. Which looks much better then Ceasar 4 IMHO, which is 3d AFAIK. And game-play also feels…
z3t4 on HN
OpenTTD
From 1 comment
I still play Transport Tycoon fairly often. The open version at https://www.openttd.org/ is my goto. I've tried a lot of the newer city builders and the 3D just does not do it…
Delameko on HN
SimCity
From 1 comment
Fantastic. Like a mini sim city. Probably works better than the original PS version.
jonbennett18 on HN