Isotile

Isotile is a simplistic yet very efficient, cross-platform piece of software that allows users to conveniently generate tiles for their games, either from sprites or solid colors.

Before anything else, it’s worth noting that Isotile supports tiles from 8x8 upward. In spite of its straightforward design, the application offers a lot of customization options for your future tiles. For instance, you can set the width and height of the tiles, pick colors, load images, view the hex code for each color, and set the overall brightness of each tile side.

Loading images is very easy, as you only have to drag and drop images from their location onto the app’s interface or use the “LOAD” buttons available for each side. The application allows you to link the edges of your tiles, customize the tile’s dimensions, or lock the tiles dimensions so that they form a perfect cube. Last but not least, it’s worth noting that you can export your work only in PNG format.

For now, the application is not what one might call comprehensive. However, according to the app’s GitHub page, its developer has plans to incorporate various extra features in the future. The whishlist includes the possibility to rotate images, a load/save feature for shadow edges, the option to pick the primary interface color for the images, and a load/save/preview option for multiple tiles together.

Nevertheless, Isotile is one of the few simple tools for creating isometric tiles out there. While it will most definitely won’t appeal to professional game makers, it might become one of the favorites for the plethora of indie game developers out there.