Character Creation Menu
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Printed Date: 11 September 2025 at 12:33pm
Topic: Character Creation Menu
Posted By: BrightBit
Subject: Character Creation Menu
Date Posted: 28 December 2011 at 4:19pm
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Hello Pixeljoint community, I am still trying to develop a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roguelike - roguelike game. So I'll need a menu to create the player character and this is what I came up with:  In my opinion the menu looks too futuristic and cold. Do you have any suggestions on how to fix that? BTW: Here is a link to the thread with "in game" graphics of my roguelike. It might help to get some impressions for the desired look and feel: http://www.pixeljoint.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=12504 - My Roguelike Thread . Greetings BrightBit |
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Posted By: Furritus
Date Posted: 28 December 2011 at 5:07pm
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make the colors warmer. thats all other than that amke a background instead of that red, and it looks really nice |
Posted By: Rayovatron
Date Posted: 28 December 2011 at 5:47pm
| It's already great, you could add colors. I would replace the +/- symboles of the face and hair by arrows and change the gender selection for a male and female icon. |
Posted By: Rayovatron
Date Posted: 28 December 2011 at 6:41pm
Edit ;)
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Posted By: BrightBit
Date Posted: 29 December 2011 at 11:37am
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Thank you for your opinions, @Rayovatron: You're right! The arrows look much better than plus and minus. Thanks for that. I am not sure about the gender icons, though. Maybe I just don't like their location... Hmmm... Have to think about it. I tried to play with the colours and that's what I came up with so far:  To be honest: I only like the third one. If you have some suggestions I would appreciate to see a corresponding mini layout, too. ;-) (I am not good with colours.) Greetings BrightBit |
Posted By: BrightBit
Date Posted: 30 December 2011 at 3:44pm
I used the third colour scheme for further improvements: Ignore the white little fella to the lower right, please. It's just a placeholder for an illustration. I am not sure if I will keep that, though. I just thought about adding something similar to those Fallout Pip Boy illustrations like this: http://firsthour.net/screenshots/fallout/fallout-character-creation-bloody-mess.jpg - Pip Boy Illustration . Cheers BrightBit |
Posted By: BrightBit
Date Posted: 11 April 2012 at 1:56am
I overhauled the character creation menu: I reworked it to make the UI and the website of my game look as if they fit together. All of them should share the same design principles. The UI:  ...and the corresponding website:  The website really exists and the login and registration options already work. The content is the only thing missing now. :) However, the graphical stuff is still a work in progress, so feel free to criticize me. Greetings BrightBit |
Posted By: Elk
Date Posted: 12 April 2012 at 3:36am
| What if I'm 104 years old? |
Posted By: BrightBit
Date Posted: 12 April 2012 at 4:55pm
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lol :) I'm not sure if I will allow an age beyond 50 but I am definitely sure that I won't allow an age beyond 99 (at least during the character creation). But thanks nontheless. ;) |
Posted By: BrightBit
Date Posted: 14 April 2012 at 9:47pm
I now tried to make the control elements look more simple and used frames to organise the entries: |
Posted By: BrightBit
Date Posted: 15 April 2012 at 11:22am
Some minor changes: I made the frames thinner, the text a little bit darker and I increased the contrast of the buttons (and added some shininess to them). |
Posted By: BrightBit
Date Posted: 13 May 2012 at 4:14pm
I made minor adjustments to my GUI mockup: I also started to program the GUI. If you want to take a look at the real counterpart of the mockup, you can download this file: http://www5.zippyshare.com/v/30500913/file.html - Basements & Bosses 0.0.1 [Rev. 53] Please note: The GUI isn't finished yet. The logo and the faces are missing in the app. The skills are nameless and the interactive "game" part is just a rather boring infinite terrain demo. You can return to the main menu by pressing Q or ESC. Movement controls are mapped to the WASD keys. It's a very, very, very early prototype for my game, so please, be gentle. :) So far I only did some tests under Windows 7 64 bit. If you encounter problems running this app, please tell me. Critiques and Comments are as always highly appreciated. Greetings BrightBit |
Posted By: Jumble
Date Posted: 14 May 2012 at 11:20pm
| The interface is reminding me of the first fallout. Good stuff. |