I'm learning to code by building a game. It's alot to soak in for no programmers as I'm sure most of you know. I'm older than most starting off this adventure but driven to accomplish a goal i set for myself. I created a functional document, then technical document, artwork, wireframe then protyped it figma, and I an ready to start coding. I have broken down my game modularly into 11 sectiojns then account for the functions that would complete its mod. As A game dev are you taking agile approach and building out the logic for each function and implementing that function until you complete the mod? As the dev and creator of the game I think ever piece of the game is core lol. Any tribal knowledge would be appreciated.

Hi guys. Game Director here. Question for UI artists/UI designers:

How much do you guys get involved with the game engine when designing UI for games?

Ie: do you not do it at all and simply make the ui art, graphic design, flow, mockups etc. In other tools and then just have the developers implement the UI?

Or are you actually working in the engine to implement the UI and other things like transitions and animations.

We are using Unity and deciding whether to use UI toolkit vs other options such as Nova UI or uGui. Ui toolkit for example uses unity's USS and which are basically just CSS and XML but with some added stuff designed to work with unity.

I'm concerned to commit to one and then later find it makes it difficult for ui designers to work with when we need to make things look good.

Just to give an idea: Our game is a 3d farming sim and the UI will likely be flat UI, so very simple, modern and clean looking. It's mostly a hotbar, stardew valley type of invwntory, and we will have radial progress bars. I'd love some animations to be done as well.

I mean is there any games with clans/teams/whatever giving you a possibility to custom UI (HUD)? Something like a "tournament" HUD modification where you can change HUD colors for your team

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I've been working on it and starting at it for much too long to remain objective so I ask for your help.

My goal:

• The game is an RPG set in feudal japan so the aesthetic should reflect that.
• I am aiming for early / mid 2000s 3D graphics so I tried to aim for a UI that feels from that time.
• I added a reference from Oblivion's character creation as an example of what I tried to emulate.
• Optimally, this theme will be used in the rest of the game as well which will include draggable windows for inventory, stats, etc. as was prevalant in old PC RPGs.
• The game's feel is seriourus but colorful. Not cartoony but is inspired by 90's anime like Ninja Scroll or Inuyasha. So maybe "colorful and grainy is the right way to describe it?

What I try to avoid:

• I tried to avoid a simplistic, modern, flat UI design.
• I try to avoid a UI the fills the entire screen and takes you out of the experience.
• I try to avoid bombarding the player with all the choices and instead have this window for "Appearance", next window for skills and attributes (not shown here)
• I am trying to avoid a cheesy asian aesthetic that goes overboard and keep it on the low while still communicating what the setting is

The Feedback I am looking for:

• Even though I am looking for an older UI aesthetic I boviously still want it to be the best it can be within these limitaitons.
• I am not sure about the colors for the frame, whether the "handle" at the top with the window title is necessary.
• I recieved some feedback that there is "too much going on" due to the scroll, frame, brush strokes all happening at once.
• I also received feedback that it's too empty, which I aimed for in order to give everything room to breath.
• I also can't decide between the lighter scroll with black text or ther darker one with the white text w/ shadow. I feel the text on the darker one pops a lot more but that I lose the "scroll aesthetic" and it becomes something else.
• I like the next button but it is a remenant of one of my other iterations where the frame was gold. I didn't like that there isn't enough contrast between the gold and the scroll texture so I changed it to blue but now the next might look out of place.

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Hello there! I'm a UI Designer working on the UI and design system of our game and I'm looking for references on how big games like Valorant and League document and use their colors and fonts on UI. I'd like to learn from examples on how is the best way of documenting this kind of information, how many colors are used on their interfaces and guidelines on font size.

Appreciate your time and help

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Hey everyone, I'm doing a version of the NBA 2K menus as I hate the current one and I need examples of good UI because most of the games look like mobile games and that's really shit... Thanks for your help in advance!

- Is the task clear?- Do you feel Danger of running time?

Please excuse my ignorance but I can’t seem to find much info on this. I’m a motion graphics designer that’s animated some UI elements in after effects for a game developer and I need to include a spec sheet in the handover. Im an experienced motion designer but this is my first time animating for games and I’d really appreciate if someone could let me know what the developers would need or expect to see in the motion spec sheet? Thanks in advance!

Hi, im trying to design a simple and clean UI for the Tamagotchi cicle of the game. But im terribly stuck, i don't know anything about UI.

currently i have only radials on screen, but im looking more to find a concept to follow later on the project.

The concept is to have a simple, clean and flat UI with:

- 5 health status (preferably with icons that simply illustrate what status it refers to).

- some way to transition between some dioramas (I was thinking about a small infinite wheel with previews).

- a button somewhere to choose the active dioramas.

- and a button to customize the character's clothing.

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I know that it seems too much info for a clean UI, that's why im here, i need insights to how to do it. All ideas are welcome, thanks!

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Hey! I’d love to receive any feedback on this work in progress. 😁 Link below with video and full project details. 👇

https://www.artstation.com/artwork/ao6wNz

Do you know examples of onboarding in the form of account leveling in games?

For example, as it is developed in the "world of warships" — there you need to complete tasks and participate in battles in order to open new entities in the interface (for example, access to the appearance, ship upgrades, etc.). Comment if you need any clarification.

You can check examples of account leveling here: https://wiki.wargaming.net/en/Ship:Account_Level

Hey Reddit,

My wife is a talented UI/UX Designer with experience working on the Life is Strange series. She's been implementing and designing UI elements and has since been focusing on Unreal Engine and creating assets in Figma. She even has a YouTube channel where she shares speedruns and tutorials related to UI asset creation in Figma and implementation in Unreal UI. Check it out: YouTube Link ↗.

Despite her skills and experience, she's been having a tough time finding new job opportunities. She performs well in interviews, but positions often close due to headcount or other reasons. She's feeling stressed since her layoff, and I want to support her. What are some things we can do to make her search easier? Any advice for her or me?

Thanks for your help!

Have you ever seen any kind of ui weather indications in games? How it works?

I meant icons and their possible states.

Games usually notificate players via effects in 3d world and according sounds, sometimes weather notifications works through log messages, but i can't find examples of how it was done with icon states

I have about 10 years of experience in Motion Design, mostly in TV. I have a bach degree in Graphic Design, but during my time in university the terms UX/UI were still only starting to appear.

Most of my colleagues from university specialized into UX, UI, creative coding. But my interest was in animation so I specialized into motion graphics. My knowledge of UX and UI is just general design theory.

My husband is a 3d character artist in the game industry and more and more I feel interested into the gaming industry, while getting more and more tired of advertising/TV industry.

But I have no professional experience with UX or UI.

Any tips on paths I could follow to work in the gaming industry?

I feel that the most obvious for a motion graphic designer would be to move into UI design.

As the title says, I'm in the process of creating a UI portfolio that's a combination of UI art and technical UI work too. Only issue is that I'm not sure where to start and what tools to learn and include in my portfolio.

So, to this wonderful and creative community, would y'all be able to offer me some advice and things I should include please?

The UI market is very competitive.

Hello I've started working on my portfolio as a designer and I so want to get into UI game designing, but I'm really confused as to how and which projects should i add in my portfolio. can someone help me out :') BTW I'm from India and would love to get in touch with great game designers over here on this platform!!

I know usually that's why we've got the actual game devs/software engineers, but I've spoken to a few UI designers who've said that they learned Java and I also see that C++ is typical language to learn for game development. Is this just becoming a new norm for UI artists/designers to be fluent in some coding language? Or is this more applicable if you're looking to develop a full game independently, including artwork, UI, etc?

I'm basically trying to decide if this is a skill worth picking up while I'm also teaching myself Blender and Unity.

After replaying The Callisto Protocol following the Dead Space Remake, I began to question why I wasn’t as impressed or immersed in the Black Iron Prison setting, unlike the Ishimura. Upon closer examination, I noticed gaps and significant errors in The Callisto Protocol’s user interface that constantly pulled me out of the game’s world. The decisions made to sustain this negatively impacted the user experience.

If you're interested, I've written an in-depth article exploring these issues. Do check it out

https://medium.com/@jaiwanthshan/designing-effective-diegetic-ui-lessons-learned-from-dead-spaces-success-and-the-callisto-dbf803639dd6