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Beta 7: UI Overhaul

Beta 7: UI overhaul (part 1 of ?) Developer commentary After Kickstarter funding dried up, I recently got a part time job that ended up being nearly a full time job, which severely hampered development speed, which is w

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What changed

7 fixes3 additions5 changes2 removals

UI and audio
Gameplay
Events
Balance
Fixes

addedDeveloper commentaryI've finally decided to go full force with a UI revamp. Every previous "UI update" was more or less bandaid fixes using old UI systems. This update finally updates some of the most badly needed pages using Unity's new UI Toolkit system.

addedDeveloper commentaryThe style select screen was probably the biggest dumpster fire of a page in the entire game. I had no idea how to organize it and went through a couple of iterations that largely stuck to the same format. But now, this new one splits it into two sub-pages, with the single shared element being the moves displayed, and I think it looks and works better than ever before.

changedDeveloper commentaryIn addition, I think I've more or less finalized the visual identity of the UI, matching it with the artstyle of the game itself. I've focused on solid black/grey gradients focused on one to two colors, using brighter colors and outlines only around the most important parts of the page, like navigation buttons. I've learned a lot about UI development and design through this and I really don't envy front end developers in the industry lmao

changed-DanMaking the tutorial was the first real challenge of working on this team, but a welcome one. The real difficulty came from brainstorming the best way to teach the player gameplay fundamentals. My goal was to do it organically by putting the player into situations where the fundamentals are the solution to a problem without explicitly saying that they are, though I did make the very first tutorial's description more obvious just to be sure that it would get the player thinking. Having originally changed my major in university from computer science to math because I didn't like coding, it was empowering to be able to actually program these features into the game and be able to play them!

changedPSA: Temporarily disabled as UI is being revamped:Controller UI navigation

changedPSA: Temporarily disabled as UI is being revamped:Keyboard only controls

Clairvoyance changes

addedI've finally decided to go full force with a UI revamp. Every previous "UI update" was more or less bandaid fixes using old UI systems. This update finally updates some of the most badly needed pages using Unity's new UI Toolkit system.

addedThe style select screen was probably the biggest dumpster fire of a page in the entire game. I had no idea how to organize it and went through a couple of iterations that largely stuck to the same format. But now, this new one splits it into two sub-pages, with the single shared element being the moves displayed, and I think it looks and works better than ever before.

changedIn addition, I think I've more or less finalized the visual identity of the UI, matching it with the artstyle of the game itself. I've focused on solid black/grey gradients focused on one to two colors, using brighter colors and outlines only around the most important parts of the page, like navigation buttons. I've learned a lot about UI development and design through this and I really don't envy front end developers in the industry lmao

changedMaking the tutorial was the first real challenge of working on this team, but a welcome one. The real difficulty came from brainstorming the best way to teach the player gameplay fundamentals. My goal was to do it organically by putting the player into situations where the fundamentals are the solution to a problem without explicitly saying that they are, though I did make the very first tutorial's description more obvious just to be sure that it would get the player thinking. Having originally changed my major in university from computer science to math because I didn't like coding, it was empowering to be able to actually program these features into the game and be able to play them!

changedController UI navigation

Beta 7: UI overhaul (part 1 of ?)

Developer commentary

After Kickstarter funding dried up, I recently got a part time job that ended up being nearly a full time job, which severely hampered development speed, which is why this update took so long to come out.

I've finally decided to go full force with a UI revamp. Every previous "UI update" was more or less bandaid fixes using old UI systems. This update finally updates some of the most badly needed pages using Unity's new UI Toolkit system.

The style select screen was probably the biggest dumpster fire of a page in the entire game. I had no idea how to organize it and went through a couple of iterations that largely stuck to the same format. But now, this new one splits it into two sub-pages, with the single shared element being the moves displayed, and I think it looks and works better than ever before.

In addition, I think I've more or less finalized the visual identity of the UI, matching it with the artstyle of the game itself. I've focused on solid black/grey gradients focused on one to two colors, using brighter colors and outlines only around the most important parts of the page, like navigation buttons. I've learned a lot about UI development and design through this and I really don't envy front end developers in the industry lmao

-Dan

Making the tutorial was the first real challenge of working on this team, but a welcome one. The real difficulty came from brainstorming the best way to teach the player gameplay fundamentals. My goal was to do it organically by putting the player into situations where the fundamentals are the solution to a problem without explicitly saying that they are, though I did make the very first tutorial's description more obvious just to be sure that it would get the player thinking. Having originally changed my major in university from computer science to math because I didn't like coding, it was empowering to be able to actually program these features into the game and be able to play them!