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  • Genres: Adventure / Indie
  • Stasis - the isometric, point-and-click, sci-fi horror adventure game. In the distant future aboard a seemingly abandoned spacecraft, John Maracheck awakes from stasis. He must push himself to new physical and emotional limits and unravel the mysteries around him.

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STASIS The isometric, point-and-click, sci-fi horror adventure game! In the distant future aboard a seemingly abandoned spacecraft, John Maracheck awakes from stasis. He must push himself to new physical and emotional limits and unravel the mysteries around him.

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Stasis mom has got it goin on
Imagine a cube. Then imagine the camera rotated and elevated so the nearest corner of the cube exactly overlaps the furthest corner. That's an isometric viewpoint.

The other part is that there is no perspective scaling (things getting smaller as they get further, viewpoint rotating as it moves to the side). So none of the artistic stuff like vanishing points which make paintings and 3D graphics look more realistic. The cube can be anywhere on the screen and it'll be the same size and look the same.

It originated with drafting, architecture, and engineering drawings, where you might need to pull off measurements by actually measuring the drawing. So preserving the dimensions was more important than making it look realistic. In RL terms, it's like a camera positioned infinitely far away, but with an infinite telephoto. And located at a viewpoint where the cube corner thing holds true.

It was a good for early games because it looked 3D, but because the size and angle of stuff didn't change as it moved around there were no 3D calculations involved. You could just draw moving objects on the screen as sprites (pre-rendered pictures). And the whole thing ends up looking 3D-ish. The sprites themselves are 2D objects, not 3D objects. But the effect can be enhanced by drawing them and the static backgrounds as if they were 3D.
Between a side view and top down view. You can think of it like the camera is placed in the corner of a room but at the ceiling level. Gives games a perception of depth when the camera isn't explicitly following your character.

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08-22-2022 at 07:01 AM.
08-22-2022 at 07:01 AM.
Not a point-and-click fan, but free is free. Thanks op.
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08-22-2022 at 10:55 AM.
08-22-2022 at 10:55 AM.
what does isometric mean?
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08-22-2022 at 11:06 AM.

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Like, you're totally metric, and not even a little bit. I SOOOO metric. None of that SAE crap.

Seriously, in this context I have no idea.
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08-22-2022 at 11:09 AM.
08-22-2022 at 11:09 AM.
Quote from Lunatic_Heretic :
what does isometric mean?
Between a side view and top down view. You can think of it like the camera is placed in the corner of a room but at the ceiling level. Gives games a perception of depth when the camera isn't explicitly following your character.
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08-22-2022 at 03:44 PM.
08-22-2022 at 03:44 PM.
I really love these guys. Pretty sure this is a team of 2 brothers. Their atmosphere is fantastic. They also did Beautiful Desolation.
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08-22-2022 at 03:46 PM.

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08-22-2022 at 03:46 PM.
Stasis mom has got it goin on
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08-22-2022 at 03:59 PM.
08-22-2022 at 03:59 PM.
Added to the backlog since why not?
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VarmintCong
08-22-2022 at 04:12 PM.
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That looks really creepy.
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08-22-2022 at 04:39 PM.
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Quote from WallEworld :
Stasis mom has got it goin on

The best comment on SD!!!
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08-22-2022 at 04:43 PM.

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Quote from Lunatic_Heretic :
what does isometric mean?
Imagine a cube. Then imagine the camera rotated and elevated so the nearest corner of the cube exactly overlaps the furthest corner. That's an isometric viewpoint.

The other part is that there is no perspective scaling (things getting smaller as they get further, viewpoint rotating as it moves to the side). So none of the artistic stuff like vanishing points which make paintings and 3D graphics look more realistic. The cube can be anywhere on the screen and it'll be the same size and look the same.

It originated with drafting, architecture, and engineering drawings, where you might need to pull off measurements by actually measuring the drawing. So preserving the dimensions was more important than making it look realistic. In RL terms, it's like a camera positioned infinitely far away, but with an infinite telephoto. And located at a viewpoint where the cube corner thing holds true.

It was a good for early games because it looked 3D, but because the size and angle of stuff didn't change as it moved around there were no 3D calculations involved. You could just draw moving objects on the screen as sprites (pre-rendered pictures). And the whole thing ends up looking 3D-ish. The sprites themselves are 2D objects, not 3D objects. But the effect can be enhanced by drawing them and the static backgrounds as if they were 3D.
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Gtnunit
08-22-2022 at 05:06 PM.
08-22-2022 at 05:06 PM.
Watched the trailer.. still don't know anything about this game.
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cn0r
08-22-2022 at 05:47 PM.
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Quote from lionheartssj :
Between a side view and top down view. You can think of it like the camera is placed in the corner of a room but at the ceiling level. Gives games a perception of depth when the camera isn't explicitly following your character.
So like resident evil 1 then. My question is whether they use that trick at the expense of gameplay, it's a "lazy"/tricky way to do the graphics by adding in pre rendered images for the environments, so you end up with a pseudo 3d environment that is in fact 2d.

Resident evil 1 suffered from it, but that may be because the devs didn't plan enough on the restriction.

Free is free tho, I'll check it out.
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08-22-2022 at 05:58 PM.
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Reviews are mediocre. Don't waste your time.
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