KOkothariji·Feb 16, 2026Submission
A isometric city builder in JavaScript
3 points · Open discussionvictorqribeiro
isocity
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isocity
A isometric city builder in JavaScript
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13 sourcesI did push two commits, I think they got squashed on the merge
https://github.com/victorqribeiro/isocity/pull/26/commits/67...
In Show HN: I've added undo and redo to IsoCityRe whitespace: ... or use the w=1 hidden query parameter: https://github.com/victorqribeiro/isocity/pull/26/files?w=1
In Show HN: I've added undo and redo to IsoCityYou can also add ?w=1 to a PR to hide whitespace related changes; i.e. https://github.com/victorqribeiro/isocity/pull/26/files?w=1
In Show HN: I've added undo and redo to IsoCityShow HN: I've added undo and redo to IsoCity
42 points · Open discussionThat's very nice. Look at the solution a person pushed for my isocity project [1]. It enables to share a URL with your city creation
Maybe you can implement something like that
1 - https://github.com/victorqribeiro/isocity/commit/c6588171e37...
In Write shaders for the (sim) Vegas sphereI'm have plans to add isometric tiles to my tileEditor[1]. But if you want to see how it's done you can take a look at isoCity source code[2]
1 - https://github.com/victorqribeiro/tileEditor
2 - https://github.com/victorqribeiro/isocity
In LEd: Open-Source 2D Level EditorFor next updates I'm thinking about adding support for orthogonal maps (like the one in isocity - https://github.com/victorqribeiro/isocity ) and work on the UI a little bit. Let me know what you think
In Show HN: Create, edit and share beautiful tile maps on the browserno, the sprites are from a fellow name Kenny (who is famous for his work) you can see him at https://opengameart.org/users/kenney
I used other tile sets from him before, specially on my isocity (my most liked project so far) github.com/victorqribeiro/isocity
after people like isocity so much, I've been giving my old games some attention in hope to launch them. so, as I working on some game I have decided to make the tile editor you see on this video. there are many things that I would like to implement and keyboard shortcuts are among them.
I have to click each tile to compose a custom brush cause tiles are not always near each other or in perfect sequence. so I need create a place holder and define in which place goes which tile.
I'm horrible at YouTube, I don't see myself asking people to like the video and subscribing, but I do like to
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show what I'm working. So I'm trying this style of video. I have tried tutorials also. Anyways, thanks a lot for the comment.
This is an awesome post. Thank you for sharing your story with the HN community.
I was browsing your GitHub and played around a little with IsoCity [0]. I really like it! Small projects like these are great and you can learn so much from them. You said it very well:
> I don't do projects to gather attention, I do cause I have fun doing them.
Thanks again for sharing and all the best :)
[0] - https://github.com/victorqribeiro/isocity
In Thank HN: You helped me get a new joblive demo works on mobile, looks very nice, but not seeing rotate controls https://victorribeiro.com/isocity/
Doesn't seem to implement rotation - it can reveal obscured objects. https://github.com/victorqribeiro/isocity/blob/master/js/mai...
In Show HN: A tiny isometric city builder in JavaScriptI was just looking at the source code, it appears `map` is a global variable that is a 7x7 grid representing your current city (49 arrays of `[0,0]` by default). This could be serialized to a URL hash that could be shared.
source: https://github.com/victorqribeiro/isocity/blob/master/js/mai...
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