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diff --git a/game.py b/game.py
index 4dd226a..2e440f7 100644
--- a/game.py
+++ b/game.py
@@ -21,10 +21,11 @@ class Game:
         self.player = Entity(self, 'player', (50.0,200.0), (8, 15))
         self.assets = {
             'player' : load_image('entities/player.png'),
-            'grass' : load_images('tiles/grass/'),
-            'stone' : load_images('tiles/stone/')
+            #'grass' : load_images('tiles/grass/'),
+            #'stone' : load_images('tiles/stone/')
+            'iso'    : load_images('tiles/iso/')
         }
-        self.tilemap = Tilemap(self, (32,32), 'map_1.csv') 
+        self.tilemap = Tilemap(self, (64,32), 'map_1.csv') 
     def run(self):
         self.status = True
         while self.status:
@@ -39,9 +40,9 @@ class Game:
             if keys[pygame.K_RIGHT]:
                 delta[0] += 1
             if keys[pygame.K_UP]:
-                delta[1] -= 1
+                delta[1] -= 0.5
             if keys[pygame.K_DOWN]:
-                delta[1] += 1
+                delta[1] += 0.5
             self.player.update(delta)
             self.tilemap.render(self.display)
             self.player.render(self.display)
diff --git a/scripts/__pycache__/entities.cpython-311.pyc b/scripts/__pycache__/entities.cpython-311.pyc
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diff --git a/scripts/entities.py b/scripts/entities.py
index 634761d..3de7260 100644
--- a/scripts/entities.py
+++ b/scripts/entities.py
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 import pygame
 import numpy as np
+from scripts.utils import to_isometric_pixel
 
 class Entity:
     def __init__(self, game, e_type, pos, size):
diff --git a/scripts/tiles.py b/scripts/tiles.py
index 6741f1c..74d5877 100644
--- a/scripts/tiles.py
+++ b/scripts/tiles.py
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 import pygame
 import numpy as np
-from scripts.utils import TILE_DICT
+from scripts.utils import TILE_DICT, to_isometric
 
 BASE_MAP_PATH = 'data/maps/'
 
@@ -22,6 +22,6 @@ class Tilemap:
         for x in range(self.tilemap.shape[0]):
             for y in range(self.tilemap.shape[1]):
                 tile = self.tilemap[x,y]
-                surface.blit(self.game.assets[tile['type']][tile['variant']],tile['pos'] * self.tile_size)
+                surface.blit(self.game.assets[tile['type']][tile['variant']],to_isometric(tile['pos'],self.tile_size))
         for tile in self.offgrid_tiles:
-            surface.blit(self.game.assets[tile['type']][tile['variant']],tile.pos)  #this tile is written offgrid so no mult by tile_size
+            surface.blit(self.game.assets[tile['type']][tile['variant']],to_isometric(tile['pos'],self.tile_size))  #this tile is written offgrid so no mult by tile_size
diff --git a/scripts/utils.py b/scripts/utils.py
index 4b03df1..1e858e7 100644
--- a/scripts/utils.py
+++ b/scripts/utils.py
@@ -1,12 +1,13 @@
 import pygame
 import os
+import numpy as np
 TILE_DICT = {
-    1 : ('grass',0),
-    2 : ('stone',0),
-    3 : ('grass',1),
-    4 : ('stone',1),
-    5 : ('grass',2),
-    6 : ('stone',2)
+    1 : ('iso',0),
+    2 : ('iso',1),
+    3 : ('iso',2),
+    4 : ('iso',3),
+    5 : ('iso',4),
+    6 : ('iso',5)
 }
 BASE_IMG_PATH = 'data/images/'
 def load_image(path):
@@ -19,3 +20,20 @@ def load_images(path):
     for img_name in sorted(os.listdir(BASE_IMG_PATH + path)):
         images.append(load_image(path + '/' + img_name))
     return images
+def to_isometric(coord, tilesize):
+    #(1,0) -> (+tilesize[0]/2,+tilesize[1]/2)
+    #(0,1) -> (-tilesize[0]/2,+tilesize[1]/2)
+    #a must be (+tilesize[0]/2,-tilesize[0]/2)
+    #          (+tilesize[1]/2,+tilesize[1]/2)
+    a = np.array([[1,-1],[1,1]])
+    a = 0.5 * a * tilesize[:,np.newaxis]
+    return np.squeeze(np.matmul(a,coord[:,np.newaxis]))
+def to_cartesian(coord, tilesize):
+    #manually calculated the inverse of a in to_isometric
+    a = np.array([[1,1],[-1,1]])
+    a = a * (1/tilesize)
+    return np.squeeze(np.matmul(a,coord[:,np.newaxis]))
+def to_isometric_pixel(coord):
+    a = np.array([[1,-1],[1,1]])
+    a = 0.5 * a
+    return np.squeeze(np.matmul(a,coord[:,np.newaxis]))