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[Draco18s]

In my experience, isometric north is usually up-left.

Well, damn. It seems like it should be up-right for some reason... Huh. But this is why I think it's awkward to begin with

Now you know why I suck at Marble Madness (and other isometric games).

[CobaltKobold]

Oh. Uh.  controls rotated pi/4 is damnably hard the first time, particularly on a non-turnbased game. (Snake, Rattle, and Roll was the one that had me)

[winner]

In my experience, isometric north is usually up-left.

Well, damn. It seems like it should be up-right for some reason... Huh. But this is why I think it's awkward to begin with

Now you know why I suck at Marble Madness (and other isometric games).

it's always up left for me because I'm right handed so the controls point towards my center

[Amalgam]

Huh, I wasn't even thinking about the controls in an isometric game. But better mouse support would make things considerably easier, I think.

[Bricks]

You'd get used to it, one way or another.

[MaXMC]

How about looking at how Wesnoth solved it?
http://www.wesnoth.org/images/sshots/wesnoth-1.4-9.jpg

You can even use the graphics since they are under GPL. You only need to make any modifications of graphics you do available.

[Mike Mayday]

Could you elaborate? What is it about Wesnoth's camera that helps with our problems?

[Amalgam]

Going from memory and the screenshot I think the only special features wesnoth has is cut-away walls indoors to imply the player is indoors. Wesnoth doesn't use height for anything either, it's a single 2d plane.