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Pixel art knowledge - Isometric games don't exist!

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Forum Discription: Help your fellow pixel artists out with links to good tutorials, other forums, software, fonts, etc. Bugs and support issues should go here as well.
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Printed Date: 26 October 2025 at 10:42pm


Topic: Pixel art knowledge - Isometric games don't exist!
Posted By: Cyangmou
Subject: Pixel art knowledge - Isometric games don't exist!
Date Posted: 16 June 2024 at 12:03pm

This guide is a collection of 38 tutorial charts, which can be used on their own, but also work as a collection. They cover mostly basic geometric projection, and explain a lot of types with foundational information and examples.

You can download a zip archive with all 38 tutorials here:

http://cyangmou.itch.io/isometric-games-dont-exist - https://cyangmou.itch.io/isometric-games-dont-exist

Since parallel projections with pixel-exact lines get close to no attention in classic literature, this guide... 

  • ...describes the full set of pixel-specific projections which only apply to computer graphics
  • ...is meant for digital computer graphics for which different rules apply than for paper and plans.
  • ...this guide follows a color-scheme, so the colors of objects will tell you which group of projection or perspective they belong to.
I want to make this freely available for everyone, as it's really hard to get this  knowledge anywhere else, since it's a total niche subject. If you want to share the materials, please refer to the information in the readme .

Use this for reference, for teaching or for your own art. I hope you'll learn something and have fun with this!

Here are a couple of charts:


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