Category Archives: Tile World

Perhaps a small update.

Posted on February 3, 2012 by Iain Hamilton

Although Glacial Flame did come to a halt due to available of time I have been rewriting the engine behind it over the last few months. It is set and built to contain all of the previous features and a … Continue reading →

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Canvas Isometric Tutorial – Add a player and throw in some objects Pt2.

Posted on March 18, 2011 by Iain Hamilton

Walls and other solid objects This will be pretty easy to do and apart from a few extra condition checks in your movement code everything else is really just a case of duplicating. Obviously to begin with we are going … Continue reading →

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Canvas Isometric Tutorial – Add a player and throw in some objects Pt1

Posted on March 17, 2011 by Iain Hamilton

With Ed finishing up his honours at uni and myself being chained to work over the last month things have slowed down again. However with all the great feedback and emails we have been getting it’s about time this was … Continue reading →

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Glacial Flame Video

Posted on January 19, 2011 by Iain Hamilton

Watch on YouTube And here it is. The first video of our canvas project so far… No sound or anything, it speaks for itself.

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Mouse Control on Isometric Canvas tiles

Posted on August 11, 2010 by Iain Hamilton

Quite a delay in updates due to holidays and then being tied down with work deadlines but the game and tutorials go on! This tutorial will cover applying a mouse over to tiles and updating the tile array when a … Continue reading →

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Canvas isometric tiles made simple.

Posted on July 8, 2010 by Iain Hamilton

Isometric tiles are just as easy to achieve as a standard tile map. With a bit of shape alteration and minor positioning adjustment, you can change your flat 2D game concept into a mind blowing “2D.5″ isometric engine, capable of … Continue reading →

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Canvas Tiles… And more Tiles

Posted on June 28, 2010 by Iain Hamilton

Glacial Flame is the name, isometric is the game. So many tile based classics have created game changing impacts, containing addictive crack like play that a list would be unorthodox. The term tile based doesn’t reflect the game style, instead … Continue reading →

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