Hello there,
I was working on VehicularFun, and quickly realized that it has a STRIKING resemblance to Horde, an older project. I figured I would just spice it up a bit and change the perspective of the game, as well as the overall aesthetic. I want to go for the view that Retro City Rampage goes for, which is tilted at 45 degrees (I think?).
How would you go about this?
I was thinking of 3 things:
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Tilemap:
Just a bunch of tiles. Little bits of a building could be represented in it.
Would be VERY large, and a pain to make a whole bunch of tiles. Also inefficient rendering. Do not want to go this route so far. -
Custom Map 1:
Make a default street grid, and have buildings inside of each ‘block,’ each having their own ID that I can edit in a file.
This would be a DRASTICALLY smaller file, but it would look a bit reppetitive seeing the same road with the same size buildings everywhere. -
Custom Map 2:
Building off of #2, I could make size adjustments to blocks, such as a 1x2 block building, a 2x4 block building, a 4x5 park, etc.
What do you think I should go with?