IsoNode is an HTML5 Canvas isometric map engine, originally inspired by jsISO. It is gradually being translated into Typescript to ease maintenance and debugging.
- Hitbox logic per tile
- Keyboard map movement
- A state store, based on the publisher-subscriber pattern
- Debug mode
- GNU make utility
- nvm
- node.js v.14.x (Fermium, LTS)
- npm v.5+
- yarn
- Chocolatey
To compile and watch the source code, the preferred method is to run make watch PORT=<yourPORT> from the project root directory. The development server will then be available via localhost:<yourPORT>.
The project source root is app.ts.
Make sure npm version 5+ is used by default via nvm. This can be done via the command nvm alias default 14
Working on the map in debug mode is possible by setting the debug_mode property in the global state object to true, or toggling it in the browser console via window.store.dispatch("toggleDebugMode");
It is possible to test newly introduced actions via the browser console as they are available via the window object. E.g. window.store.dispatch('updateCanvas');
Static type checking is accomplished via the typescript and associated npm packages. During runtime, Webpack takes care of *.ts file type checking. TypeScript compiler options are provided in tsconfig.json.
Currently, drawing is done layer-wise: Assume we want our map to consist of three height levels - to do so we will create three arrays, each array for a separate height level. Each of these arrays resembles a distinct map layer. Each map layer consists of rows, where a single row is an array of integers, each resembling a tile configuration, which is currently merely the tile's color.
isoNode is licensed under the GPL v.3.0 license.