My Game Engine

That is pretty good, way more than I would be able to put into it. Your pixel art is actually pretty nice, the character looks cool.

Also I just realized I never explained how to move around the level but if you put the mouse of the level in the editor you can use the arrow keys to move around.

I don't plan on trying to expand my engine much further unless I need to for the game I am making. I was originally going to use tiled myself but I just wanted to have more control over my workflow. I also try to show what RCBasic is capable of in the process.

I am just working on the basic mechanics right now so hopefully I will have an actual playable demo of my game next week. I am also still looking forward to playing your demo whenever you have one.

And I mentioned it before but if there is something you don't feel the manual explains clearly or something you want some tutorial or explanation on, just ask.

For an isometric game I would just think of it like a top down game like zelda or final fantasy. The draw order in games like that is based on the sprites Y position. Basically sprites are drawn from the top of the screen to the bottom of the screen in that order.

And there may be little tricks here and there to speed this up but I don't believe that is going to be neccessary unless you are making some game with thousands of sprites on screen being moved each frame. I actually made a video with an older version of RCBasic years ago where I was able to render hundreds of sprites moving on the screen with out much slow down.

Look at this example:





A good speed hack that will drastically increase rendering speed for higher resolution games is to not check every single y position on screen. Look at this:


For y = 0 to screen_height step 10 'This will shorten the amount of time this loop runs but it won't check every y position possible
y_plus_10 = y + 10 'we are calculating y + 10 here so we don't have to do this math on every sprite we are checking
For sprite_num = 0 to num_sprites - 1
If sprite_y[sprite_num] >= y And sprite_y[sprite_num] < y_plus_10 Then
Draw Sprite Here
End If
Next
Next


And if you want to get really ridiculous with speed hacks then you could do this (note that unless you are making an insane japanese bullet hell game that this is kinda overkill):
spr_start = 0

'Inside render loop
spr_start = not spr_start
For y = 0 to screen_height step 10 'This will shorten the amount of time this loop runs but it won't check every y position possible
y_plus_10 = y + 10 'we are calculating y + 10 here so we don't have to do this math on every sprite we are checking
For sprite_num = spr_start to num_sprites - 1 step 2 'Only check every other sprite each frame
If sprite_y[sprite_num] >= y And sprite_y[sprite_num] < y_plus_10 Then
Draw Sprite Here
End If
Next
Next