I hacked together a little demo just for kicks here. If I was doing it in anger I would just use matrices for spatial transform, but feel free to take anything you can from it, though it looks to be basically the same as yours.

World to view transform:

Code:

return {
  x : world.x * this.geometry.x.x + world.y * this.geometry.y.x,
  y : world.x * this.geometry.x.y + world.y * this.geometry.y.y
};

View to world transform:

Code:

var divisor = this.geometry.x.y * this.geometry.y.x - this.geometry.x.x * this.geometry.y.y;
return {
  x : (view.y * this.geometry.y.x - view.x * this.geometry.y.y) / divisor,
  y : -(view.y * this.geometry.x.x - view.x * this.geometry.x.y) / divisor
};

Where:

Code:

var camera = {
  geometry : {
    x : {x : 32, y : 8},
    y : {x : -24, y : 16}
  }
};

Describes the two vectors of the axonometric projection.

Looks sweet. Dungeon Keeper + Pixel art = 

Slow progress since I have been banging my head against linear algebra to implement path-finding on an isometric grid.  But I finally succeeded!   

If you're having trouble because you are rendering it as isometric then you are probably doing it wrong. A 2D isometric grid is logically just a regular square grid, the pathfinding shouldn't be dependant on the view transform.

This is really tricky.  The reason for most of the problems is the obscured open tile behind walls.  I have not found a good way to show/select that tile.  Semi-transparent border tiles seems to work okay but it is still hard to see the floor behind them.

I would just use the floor area myself, then all tiles have the same cursor coverage. Using the nearest tile centroid could be a workable middle-ground.

Nice, is that hand rendered or using one of your fancy scaling/shading/thingies?

super joe

What does he even do?

Besides being superb of course.

He is also Joe.

making a game in 5 seconds is impossible

Moosh exists outside of our space-time. He could make a game in zero seconds if he so chose.

How about "Building better worlds." instead?

Sure, I like that.

Maybe try web searching random-internet-people's suggestions before executing them.  

[twingloxx:]

twingloxx: Hawt!
kitheif: Gorgeous colours.

My personal boring, nothing gets tweeted one: https://twitter.com/VGR_Reviews

My game development one: https://twitter.com/WDL_Games (reccomended one)

"We create worlds" sounds a bit familiar...

From where? I could change it pretty quick.

How about "Building better worlds." instead?

So it'll be a tile-based game.

This is looking really sweet, just my kind of game.
Looks like KDE in screens, so will be available for Linux I presume?

Couple quick'n'dirty mockups of some quick'n'dirty tiles.


Tiles here and here.

What's wrong with a simple weighted lerp?

Code:

function lerp(start, end, pos) {
  return start + (end - start) * pos;
}

Camera.track = function(pos, trackWeight) {
  this.pos.x = lerp(this.pos.x, pos.x, trackWeight);
  this.pos.y = lerp(this.pos.y, pos.y, trackWeight);
}

// each cycle
camera.track(player.pos, 1 / 32);

Will naturally ease out. If the point you're tracking accelerates to speed then it will also ease in.

If you are rotating a grid (in non quarter revolution increments) and returning the result to the grid you are always going to have overlaps, which result in a reduction of the number of pixels, and gaps, which when filled with interpolation result in a increase in the number of pixels.

bought limbo; y isnt bastion on sale too

Because Humble Weekly Sale perhaps? I presume it would include a Steam key.

Werks nice for me at (980x540)x2 in fullscreen.
Needs cross-hair!

You'd need to pump up the brightness of the textures to compensate for the darkening of the outlines and maintain contrast against them. I'd recommend also lightening the ambient level so you don't have black outlines against black shadows.

Am I the only one who sees Naija DeGeneres?
I dig it though, she is a fish after all.

Pervy gnome is totally looking up her dress while pretending to lick his lollipop.

Is pareidolia the name of the generator, and if so where might I find it? or is it closed software

Pareidolia is the name of the phenomenon that allows a noise generator like this to work. Click the second link in my post. All client-side so quite open.

Don't want to derail happymonster's Free Placeholder Graphics thread any further so I'll post this here.
Hacked (very hackishly) scale2x into my spritegen toy:

So it's Shadowrun + GTA + pizza delivery?

I think you mean Snow Crash.