3D Isometric Games - Pros and Cons | Unity Tutorial

Isometric games can actually be made in 3D. This way simplifies game development a lot. How do these games look, what are the pros and cons of this approach and how to make them - watch in this video.

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0:00 Intro
0:25 What this video is about
1:11 What is "Isometric"?
2:12 3D isometric games examples
4:56 Setting up a project in Unity
6:01 Pros and Cons
9:02 Where to use 3D isometric
9:58 Outro

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[rapidfiregames_]

I appreciated the breakdown on the exact angles that most isometric games follow. It led me down a rabbit hole for sure lol!

[alandunaway]

There is also 3D graphics on 2D style isometric. Back in the isometric era, consumer PCs weren't as powerful as developer machines, so developers made all graphics in 3D and prerendered them in isometric form.

[calendulaprox]

This is a very nice and informative video Tamara, thank you.

[IFeedOffRage]

Great video! Really helped me decide on my approach, thank you!

[jmgames]

Great video, Tamara! You certainly seem to be carving out a niche in the isometric games space! I liked the bit at the end at the end by the way, it felt like we were seeing your real personality instead of your professional side with the tutorial, not that there's anything wrong with being professional of course. But personally I think you should show more of your personality like that if you can, it made made you seem more relatable and like someone people will care about and want to see do well. Which can be a good thing for a Youtuber of course! The Youtubers I watch the most are the ones where I almost feel like they're a friend, or someone I could be friends with at least, even if they don't know that I exist haha. Of course there is a danger that you could end up with a stalker or something that way, so it's up to you.

I almost forgot to mention, but great job with the editing as well, how long did it take you, if you don't mind me asking?

[DanPos]

Excellent video - currently trying to decide on the style for my next project and came across this video!

[Cronofear]

Fun fact: In Death's Door. The "little crow" is actually a 3 and a half meter giant crow, since everything seems to be scaled up in that game. I think they did that to solve shadow issues when the camera is too far away.

[cedricquilal-lan]

I managed to make an isometric in my past jam, thanks to your tutorial!, also Merry Christmas to you.

[TGMaiam]

Can you make videos for isometric game mode in Unreal Engine 5 if possible? like setting up with camera and player movement and also top-down occlusion system?

[santozard]

Can you make some tutorial to teach us how to make 3d isometric from scratch? Thanks.

[SolitudeSA]

Interestingly, Transistor only makes use of 2d sprites and assets. It does make use of 3d lighting however.

Love your videos by the way.

[StillCisTho]

One of the things I've always wonder with 3d isometric games is if developers delete all the object's faces not facing the camera? just to decrease a little the geometry count

[vikaskumar-lrcn]

Hello,
I have made a car wheel in blender and baked normal map highpoly to lowpoly it's looks good in blender but when I import in unity normal map doesn't looks good as looks in blender what could be issue.
And what is the better way to make normal map in blender for unity or other game engines

[darrylwolfe]

Isometric game is like my dream game. Ive been looking for a course. Do you have a course on Udemy?

[malikarslan_]

Hi Tamara can you make some video on ue5

[rafaeljb]

Crossy Road is a famous mobile game that uses isometric. A good example of non RPG game

[mikeillaoi]

I want to make a game exactly like simpsons tapped out not with the simspons obviously different characters but same mechanics and no one has posted any tutorials or how to start something like that could please post a tutorial about it

[no_cap]

Do you know how to make the camera follow only the players 'z' position at an offset instead of following the players every move?

I would like for my player to move left and right freely without the camera following. I only want the camera to follow my players' forward position, kind of like color bump 3d

[lievanov]

what is the name of the game at min 7:36?

[danuvip]

imagine your device is able to use WIndows 11