At 12/20/14 09:44 PM, Barzona wrote:
I know this isn't the art forum, but unless they create a popular board distinctly for game art, I feel better about posting questions about design interfaces(both visual and code-related) on this board. This is the group that has to look at this sort of thing all the time and has a better understanding of how art is applied to games. Asking the art people what they think of something game related might not give me the best perspective.
i just don't want to get bitched out about it, so let me know your thoughts.
As far as UI goes, simple and not cluttered are the most important things I feel. Maybe there's a thousand buttons or text fields that your artist is psyched about displaying to players, but you have to divorce yourself from your game and realize that no one else cares. If you keep it in mind to show the players only what they absolutely need to know at any given time or have access to such info in a separate menu, it should be good.
Then there's color theory, colorblindness (ng won't let me linkify: http://web.archive.org/web/20081014161121/http://www.colorjack.com/labs/colormatrix/), and all the actual artsy fartsy stuff. All good indie games have a campfire, so be sure to include one.
