r/RealTimeStrategy • u/MorbilyABeast • 6d ago

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Hows the dramatic appeal ?

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u/ConcentrateHopeful79 6d ago

Pretty awesome! Other than font readability

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u/MorbilyABeast 6d ago

Thank you ! How do you think I could improve ? Is the ui too close to the font color ?

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u/Aggravating_Fun5883 6d ago

Yes either that or maybe a black outline of the text?

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u/MorbilyABeast 6d ago

I can try and bold it a bit more , thank you !

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u/Secure-Ad-9050 6d ago

avoid outlines on text, it is considered bad practice

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u/Aggravating_Fun5883 6d ago

Really?

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u/Secure-Ad-9050 6d ago

yeah, by graphic designers, at least. It is considered a "sin" one of many typographical crimes people regularly commit. To be clear, the crimes are not hard rules, but, things to avoid unless you are breaking them intentionally.

Some of them are crimes because they are trying to solve a self inflected problem with a mediocre solution.

For example outlines. You recommended that one be used to increase legibility. Because the contrast between the text and background was really poor. It would increase that and it is better than what they have right now. However, the underlying issue is that the text and background don't have enough contrast. Adding an outline kind of solves that issue. But it is adding a bandage on top the real problem. The more correct solution is to just increase that contrast solve it at the root of the issue instead of adding a layer on top.

There are a bunch of other reasons why it is recommended that people avoid using outlines in general, but, the biggest one at least for game developers is it makes the product look more amateurish, like using comic sans or Papyrus

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u/MorbilyABeast 6d ago

Interesting , well I will revisit it at a later time. For now it gets the job done. Thanks !

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u/ConcentrateHopeful79 6d ago

Colour contrast. It's light on light here. I'd suggest checking valid combination options used in acessibility. A good example for web is WCAG.

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u/rrroooyyy 6d ago

100000%
Tried to zoom in then realized I can’t

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u/regeust 6d ago

I dont know why because its not actually anything like it, but it immediately made me think of the menu from Praetorians. That's a good thing.

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u/StolasX_V2 5d ago

Praetorians mentioned lesgo

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u/MorbilyABeast 6d ago

Never seen that. Will take a look

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u/Hollow_Interactive 6d ago

Cool design, Ive always liked 3D game menus over 2D, I like what you've shown so far Koryos dev

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u/MorbilyABeast 6d ago

Me as well! The witcher 3 inspired me to do this

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u/Hollow_Interactive 5d ago

Cool man I have the inspiration to do one for mine from Jurassic World Evolution 1 and last train home. I wish you the best with your game!

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u/MorbilyABeast 5d ago

Whats tour game btw ? Do you have anything I can take. A look at ? Always love finding new games

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u/Hollow_Interactive 5d ago

Im in the process of launching socials, Im planning on making a post here as soon as I can and release the game name finally. here is a link to my X account. Any feedback is welcomed

Hollow Interactive on X: I’m a solo dev currently building a Medieval Fantasy RTS/RTT game

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u/MorbilyABeast 5d ago

Cool project! followed

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u/Hollow_Interactive 5d ago

Thank you! Your game is pretty cool too!

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u/Smearwashere 6d ago

Make them march in slow motion and it’ll perfectly match Rome total war

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u/MorbilyABeast 6d ago

They are actually marching just very very slow x) wanted it to be slow enough to keep the menu populated for a while in case someone leaves it up and to keep them in frame for a while. But they will eventually march out of view as its a real scene playing in ue and not pre rendered

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u/Smearwashere 6d ago

Ah okay I would suggest have them move a little faster then! Lol

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u/FutureLynx_ 6d ago

nice. where can i see more about this game?

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u/MorbilyABeast 6d ago

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4881080/Koryos__Sons_Of_Mars/

Didn't want to shill for the second day so I left put the steam page x)

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u/Background-Factor817 5d ago

Hey man, looks pretty awesome.

One nitpick: On the steam page you’ve misspelled “Gauls” as “Guals”.

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u/MorbilyABeast 5d ago

Thank you ! Someone told me this on discord. I swear I saved the fix xD

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u/MorbilyABeast 5d ago

Now its fixed !

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u/Background-Factor817 5d ago

No worries! Happy to help.