But why would you misinform the layman? If it's not isometric then it's not isometric. Gog should have used '3d', 'overhead view', or just not have mentioned it at all.

That term is used incorrectly way too much in reviews and articles describing games that have a fixed bird's-eye view.

I guess it's something of a pet-peeve of mine...

Btw, wish-listed.

Here's a sample shot I took the best way I could (some blurriness due to silly JPEG compression). Somehow it wouldn't take a proper screenshot when in fullscreen. Anyway, that's at 1600x900 (for the game window). The game looks pretty nice even at full 1080p despite some noticeable lower res textures here and there, but nothing that mars the game by any means. After all, it's still a mobile port, so expecting HD textures isn't the most realistic.

At least that visual style manages to look good in general, so it's nice enough.

Looks very charming, and right up my alley. :) For some reason, it reminds me more of the factory in Rogue Galaxy than it does Wall-E, even though the main character certainly carries the same kind of cute vibe.

I'll wishlist it for now, the Insomnia sale kind of ate my game budget. ^^;;

I think I will grab this one after the dust from the Insomnia sale settles down a bit. I really like the visuals in this game, the colours are vibrant and overall the objects are very pleasant to look at. That, and the trailer definitely makes a very positive impression. Wishlisted.

Sure why not, interesting concept and cool art-style. Wishlisted for now.
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It looks so cute.

Lack of glasses?

After May weekend promo it's fixed now.

And your statement is entirely accurate -- except for the part where isometric projection can offer both performance and image quality advantages (the former helping enable the latter), and the part where I'm currently working on a game that uses isometric projection (technically dimetric - most "isometric" games are actually dimetric or trimetric and not really isometric).

You even contradict yourself as you stated that an isometric perspective can be used to "guarantee that everything looks good" (as that sounds like an advantage to me).

We've had multiple "isometric" new releases here on GOG just in the past year, and I suspect we will again over the coming year. (Eschalon 3 for example was released just a few months ago.) If Spiderweb Software has held out this long, I doubt their next game is going to use a perspective projection.

Also note that "3D is cheap" can be wrong in multiple ways. I pointed out it can be wrong in terms of performance (and you may want to think long and hard about what happens when scene complexity is very high before "correcting" me), but it can also be wrong in terms of art costs -- I'm guessing someone who has both the artistic and technical skills to make 3D models gets paid more than someone who has the art skills to draw a single 2D projection of a 3D object but not the technical skills to create the 3D model. (I haven't tried hiring such people... yet. So that's just a guess, but it seems a reasonable one.) Note that doesn't apply the same to things that need to be animated -- there a 3D model may actually be the cheaper option as the cost of the one 3D model gets amortized over all of the animation frames using that model (even if it just gets pre-rendered offline and then rendered as a 2D animated sprite in the game).

I knew I should have made those comments less emphatic.

You're quite right. 3D is still bound to be the more computationally-expensive option, despite the crazy 3D hardware we have these days. What I should have said was that computers are now so fast that the majority of game developers do not need to worry about the performance impact of using 3D graphics.

I'll take your word on trimetric (none are springing to mind), but I've certainly seen dimetric games. The benefits for game developers would apply to any form of parallel projection, of course.

Well there I was referring to the days when resolutions were low, and scaling sprites was invariably going to make them look pretty bad. With modern hardware and resolutions these things can (again, generally) be done without much of an adverse effect on the overall visual quality of the game.

I stand well corrected on the prevalence of parallel projection in the modern age of gaming.

Quite right, and "cheap enough in most cases" is what I meant. And I do believe that is true. But there will always be exceptions, and people who wish to push the limits of the hardware (or the low-end of the hardware they're supporting).

Another very good point.

Wall-E has come to gog. Well it will have to wait a bit - wishlisting.

I'm afraid I've got bad news.

Most of the games (if not all) that you believe to be isometric are actually dimetric.

The term isometric has been misused by the video game industry for more than 30 years.

Oops. I guess I should have read the whole thread first.

Very nice release.