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

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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 HN
    • This 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 HN
    • I spent a good 20min building little towns. Nice post.
      gherkinnn on HN
    • Fantastic. 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 HN
    • This 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 HN
    • Nothing 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 HN
    • Perhaps 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 HN
    • 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 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 HN
    • A 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 HN
    • live 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

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