Rendering  Technique

ISO advantages

• Compromise between most natural perspective and most informative (topdown)
• Angled walls permit ambushing!
• Enormous scrollable worlds are easily made

Tiling advantages

• Easy for users to redesign their own defenses
• Much more easily implemented in Java (or other platform port)
• Crisp graphics if good artists
• Quantum nature of terrain simplifies character actions
• Fixed angle and scale needs only a single set of sprites per action per character
• Mapping of properties to terrain can be easy

Tile

• 32x32x(24 ?)bit  image map (actually a pointer, so images can be shared)
• property map (ditto)
• Pointer to next tile in animated sequence

Pixel

• Transparent pixels do not display
• Translucent pixels show only grey silhouettes (used for shoji screens)