Found this animation in the video about isometric Graphics. And boy, I wanted to recreate that in Unity. Here's how I did it.

Step 1. Setup. After quick drawing of tile in Aseprite. I've created a static matrix of cube tiles. That was pretty easy.

Step 2. Selecting with mouse. Using primitive knowledge of linear algebra, converted mouse position into the tiles' coordinate system, and increased the y-value of according tile.

Step 3. Selecting with wave. This part was not tricky. Simply increased y-value of adjacent tiles that is selected by mouse.

Step 4. Making wave Animation. This part required some math and Harmonic motions. Basically here each Tile is moving along sinus pattern, but each tile has a different phase according to wave direction and its position.

Step 5. User Interface. Each of wave settings, could be tweaked through Unity inspector, tho I wanted to make UI so that it could be changed through the game itself. This is my first time making UI, but it worked out better than I expected.

Step 6. Publishing. After making finishing touches and code-refactoring, I have finally made build for android, windows and web-gl, so you can play around. Honestly, I have no clue how this project is usefull or fun for someone, maybe you can set it as a live Wallpaper. It was just a fun to make and a good practice.

web-version: https://icb.surge.sh

source code: https://github.com/Minilay/IsometricCubeTiles

The Final Step. I kept working on this "game" for a ridiculously long. I am not going to develop this anymore longer!

In this last version, there is a much better wave animation, which required double the information from UI to tweak. At first I end up with a 6 sliders and 2 arrows, but I managed to squeeze everything into 3 nice modules.
Also I added zooming for both PC and android. This at first glance, easy task took me a 4+ hours implement. But now it works like a charm especially on PC.

Outcome. This is my first project after a long break, and after reading Clean Code by R.Martin. I am only halfway of this book, though my code already is much cleaner. I do not feel stuck and lost in my code anymore. This is probably the main reason why easy features as zoom took me a while to implement. Developing the code and logic was not difficult, tho to keep it clean and readable was darn hard.

web-version: https://ict.surge.sh

Hey, yo! Starting tomorrow (3rd of October) I will challenge myself to create a playable game and publish it in Play market in 4 weeks! I hope that other game developers would join my challenge.

But, why?
1) Artificial Pressure of challenge would encourage to develop a game.
2) Show what a developer can make in a 4 weeks
3) Keep track of annual progress of your game-dev skills, since I plan to make this challenge annual

I will post a progress of my game at least once a week and I encourage other developers to show off as well!

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Came up with a game idea, researched games from jams and itch.io for inspiration.
Decided to make arcade game based on swipes. "Inspired" game design basics from the game Downwell. Also, set up project and github repo.
Downwell Gameplay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kY83H8BdxhI
Github: https://github.com/Minilay/GameOber2022/

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Added, basic movement and looped level generation. Though, I am not comfortable with the code, so I might want to do a refactoring here. Planning on making alpha this weekend

Published my old plugin ShapeStation on itch.io. This plugin generates Shapes of different kind in Unity, so one can skip the art of the game or use it as a placeholder.

https://minilay.itch.io/shapestation