Main Menu UI Buttons
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Topic: Main Menu UI Buttons
Posted By: Chickenshowman
Subject: Main Menu UI Buttons
Date Posted: 15 July 2018 at 6:42am
Title logo of the game will go up top. Are all the buttons meanings obvious? Any inconsistencies I need to clean up? |
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Posted By: eishiya
Date Posted: 15 July 2018 at 12:33pm
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Play, skins, shop, options? I'd make the shadows under the icons use the dark orange colour from the shadows on the base. Being so dark makes them look like slits. The blurry background doesn't match the pixel-art crispness of the buttons.
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Posted By: Chickenshowman
Date Posted: 15 July 2018 at 4:26pm
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Thanks for the suggestions! And close, it's:
Play, Levels, Shop, Options. Is there any better way to represent levels? I tried your shadow idea and it looks better so thanks :) Ya still wondering what to do with the background. That's just what the developer had already in place. |
Posted By: eishiya
Date Posted: 15 July 2018 at 5:45pm
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For levels, it depends on the sort of game this is and what level selection actually means. I don't think there's a universal visual for level selection. And aaah, programmer art :] Maybe some wavy or geometric 2-4 colour patterns? Again, really depends on the sort of game this is and the intended aesthetic of it. This screen so far conveys almost no information ):
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Posted By: Pinny
Date Posted: 19 July 2018 at 8:02am
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For level select the boxes would be easier to understand if you refer to levels as (similar) boxes in other places too. Alternatively, you might be able to add little rocks or trees on top of the boxes to indicate that they're levels. Might not work depending on what the game is. I'm thinking something like this: https://goo.gl/images/wFLZ6Y
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Posted By: Theo-Theo
Date Posted: 25 July 2018 at 10:18am
Hey, maybe instead of those rather vague, colorful blocks, you could put a number (I used '1' in my example) to represent the level selection?
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