Menu Screens

[_Atti_]

Anyone who can guess where my char is in that shot is the MASTER OF THE UNIVERSE.

Khuul?

[Springheel]

The springs and buttons are animated, so that the move when you click on them. The color and text of the buttons is obvisouly not so fitting for us, but I think the background theme could work to give some ideas.

 

Take away the background and the title and that also could be for any game out there. Which is, of course, true of virtually every menu in existance. It's not the buttons that make a menu unique, it's the surrounding graphics. And our last consensus was that people wanted an animated game-map in the background. If people have other versions to submit we can always put it to a vote, but it's pointless to have Napalm wait another two months to get started while people rehash debates we had back in December.

[sparhawk]

Personally I like your concept. I was just showing the screens to give some ideas. Anyway. I don't know why Napalm really needs the actual graphics, because you can easily exchange that later on. The menu could be ready a long time ago and it would only take some smaller adjustments if we want to have a new menu layout.

[SneaksieDave]

Khuul?

 

Well, that does it then. _Atti_ is officially, MASTER OF THE UNIVERSE.

 

Technically, if the menu is a map, and any coding underneath is kept reusable enough, a new menu map or maps could be created at any time.

[Springheel]

I don't know why Napalm really needs the actual graphics, because you can easily exchange that later on

 

You can easily change the background, or some of the graphics, but the GUI editor determines the size and location of the buttons, so that's much more annoying to change after the fact.

[Darkness_Falls]

I had forgotten about that Syberia menu, Sparhawk. I really liked it. In motion, it really is unique. But then again, I go goo-goo over gears and clockwork stype stuff. I'm starting to lean toward more of a T2 interface again, but I'm willing to concede to our creative lead (SH). If we already decide on this back in December, we should strongly consider just going with it. The main thing I'd mention to change on SH's mockup is make the frame/borders on that pop-up style window be a little thicker and maybe add a few more designs, and thicker designs around the border of the inside of that pop-up. I'm gonna be on a business trip all week, otherwise I might try to make a menu on my own also for multi-voting or something.