Developers interested in creating tile-based games and perhaps unsatisfied with existing solutions should try TilemapKit
Hexagonal, staggered and regular isometric, and of course orthogonal tilemaps are all supported. Including all "stagger" variations. Cool features like pathfinding are added as requested. Over 20 example tilemaps in TMX format are included for free. For a full list of features and roadmap please visit the TilemapKit website.
If you want to see what you'll get, watch this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAgGX1zc-1A
Enjoy TilemapKit and please leave me feedback in the above forum thread or here.