UI and Menus

basic concept, based on past iga games with a bit of extra flourish, full pics at 1x, 1.25x, and 1.5x to approximate camera distance

im sure igas team can come up with something much more elegant, but i like the idea of the elements of the ui coming out from flourishes around the corners, maybe go with stained glass, silver filigree like above, or even a twisted rosebush

Hmm, here's an idea: perhaps the color of Miriam's aura changes for status effects? If you see a sickly green aura emanating from her back when she's poisoned, or a dark purple one for when she's cursed, I think that could be both visually interesting and minimize HUD clutter.

i actually had the idea a while back of the rose itself being an indicator of status, along with neat little visuals like dripping poison, cracked stone, etc, i agree that it could use a lot of polish and the corner flourishes could be a bit less intrusive, it was suprisingly difficult to find something that would fit the theme that wouldnt completely disappear into the background or be massively intrusive so i went with what i found that kinda worked

and yep, it took me a while to come up with something to replace the heart that made sense thematically but wasnt crystal since crystals are currently thought to be used for augmentation, so confusing a 'heart' crystal with an 'enemy drop' crystal wouldnt be a good design choice, and since theres a rose theme in the game a rose petal could come out of a candle and gently sway to the floor and anybody whos ever played an iga or cv game would instantly be able to pick up on this, and the larger version could be a full rose that drops straight like large hearts, and it matches with the visual of being a petal falling off the rose your health and mp bars are attached to, which ties back into being conected to miriams curse through whatever abilities require 'hearts' like subweapons, weapon specials, crashes, or enhancers *breath

yeah, i think the minimap should be toggleable since its preference whether you want it there or to rely more on the full map, i want to wait until theres some better examples of polished and less intrusive fourishes before i go either way on making them toggleable since i think theres some really interesting things that could be explored with it >P

Yes! I think it was back in cecil-kain's "masterpieces" thread (which is actually quite similar to this new "least favorite parts of Igavania" thread we currently have) that I brought up how I thought we needed the floating leaf trajectory similar to the heart drop, because it brings with it familiarity and charm, and is also helpful in immediately identifying the drop's uniqueness in-game. The petal of a rose is perfect, and a whole rose for the "big heart" makes thematic sense just as much. MAKE IT SO

(assuming hearts themselves have to go)

As it happens, in my survey I submitted just now, I had brought up my concerns with hearts/candles. I really kinda want to make a thread just about that. We touched on it in cecil-kain's thread, but not since and I don't think much has been submitted on it otherwise.

edit: lol I edited my survey response and linked to these posts >_> I'm so greedy in that thing.

Actually, i made a MENU a long time ago and sent it to the bloodstained Tumblr. I'm no expert on that, so, here goes, just for fun!



At the time, we didn't know much about the game yet and i made up some info based on what we knew. Magi-Crystal is a term IGA said that i believed it has something to do with magical powers, relics and such.


A small note: There are a three little easter-eggs on it 

Now, ABOUT the discussion, i personally prefer a pause-menu. The idea of a small window showing the map at all times (like Metroid games) is something i like. For me, the HUD must exist at all times and must be bars and numbers combined (i even like the idea to have HP and MP with both numbers and bars).

One thing i wanted to add, is about the usage of healing items. I think the best thing they could do to this game is limit the items to 9, instead of 99 (like it was done on DS games) AND to have an "animation" before using, like SOTN, but with a quick button to use it. So, you can equip ONLY healing item types on a button (or several buttons, or a wheel) and when you use it, it shows a cool animation of Miriam drinking/eating or something like that, a fun sound is heard, and big green healing numbers pops up.

Redogan, that's definitely something I can agree with, being visually impaired myself. Sometimes in-game text is downright prohibitive of me playing the game (Dead Rising). I know small text in high res is more aesthetically attractive a lot of the time, but...it sucks if you can't see it lol. This game will have a portable port, so I can't imagine we have to worry anything too small. I suppose the Vita version could have different menu designs, though.

You realize you can flip that around and say that if you don't want to stock or use that many potions to just... don't.

That makes me think of Lords of the Fallen. You got the boss' weapons from them when you beat them; however, if you beat them in a certain way, you get an enhanced version of said weapon. For example, you might get a sword that does physical damage just for winning the fight. But if you are able to defeat the boss without taking damage or without blocking, then you would get the enhanced version of that sword that does physical damage AND fire damage.

This is actually a pretty fun concept, and I think it work well in an IGAvania game.

Mana made a few comments about the Bloodstained creative team reviewing UI designs and looking at other games for reference right now. I thought it'd be good to save them for reference.

(The time is out of order because a few minutes I took screengrabs of Mana's comments, I thought it'd be good to include Croc's comments for full context.)






Edit/update: some clarification on the poll.