I went to bed last night thinking my LD48 was over, after wasting so much time trying to make a fundamentally incorrect depth-sorting algorithm work for my isometric objects/tiles… I stripped it down to something much simpler (ground layer, tiles/objects layer, simple sort based on one depth value) that worked well enough – but I’d lost a whole lot of time.

But I got up this morning, and decided to give it another push… and it’s amazing what a difference a sky texture and some very simple lighting makes:

Loads and loads still to do, though… map loader, player logic, enemy logic, collision detection, and more…