Thank‘s for your feedback and lovely words! This means a lot to us. We are tweaking the asset production pipeline and style guide rn to get better visual readability. There will be a bigger post in 2 to 3 weeks and we are eager to hear your thoughts on it.

The concept of „fun“ in a war game is something we are questioning in „War Video Report“. If you are interested, we describe the mood we are going for in our pinned post:

Glad you like it! The next one is already in the making :)

We are proudly re-inventing the wheel for the purpose of learning. ;)

We hear you and transition the code to a turn-based game as we speak. ♟️

This is very early days for this project. But once we reach a certain stage, that would be absolutely a goal for us!

Hey there! Thanks so much for reaching out! War Video Report is a game where you get to step into the shoes of a soldier right in the thick of a realistic, modern war.
We have many ideas about where the game is headed, and we’ll be sharing more details with you in the coming months!

Exactly. For a flying character you could define an offset point where it would be on the ground (think like a shadow) and use that point to determine the z order.
In isometric games you have situations where the Y (=Z) value is already below another object but it should still be shown on top.

Y sorting is simply syncing the Z order to the Y value. What is more up on screen will be shown behind. All swell in a pure 2D game, but quite a headache in an isometric game, because there are exceptions when this should not happen.