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biggerUniverse · Posted: Fri May 21, 2004 3:36 pm Post subject: GUI compo?

Hey, what does everyone think of doing a RPG game GUI design compo?

We enter a mockup of our UI with Menus, stats screen, HUD, buttons and the like in context of a game, real or just planned, and judge based on implied usability and coolness factor.

Sound doable?
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Bjorn · Posted: Fri May 21, 2004 3:51 pm Post subject:

I like the idea. This doesn't fit really into our competition system that depends on projects to be created though, so I suggest just doing this one on the forums by posting screenshots in a dedicated thread when the competition finishes.

I'd say we allow up to three mockups (or screenshots) per entry, as some people might not be able to show everything in one screenshot. I'll write more exact requirements, but I don't think we should have a theme for this one.

Wether we go along with the contest will depend on the popularity, so cry out your opinion, please! :-)

Razor-X · Posted: Fri May 28, 2004 8:21 pm Post subject:

Bah, get Visual Basic or Tcl/k people. You don't need to show of GUI's if you can use either language.

biggerUniverse · Posted: Fri May 28, 2004 8:47 pm Post subject:

Bjorn · Posted: Fri May 28, 2004 10:33 pm Post subject:

Yeah, Visual Basic or Tcl/tk would be the last things I'd use for an RPG game GUI... the idea was to make a game interface mockup.

Anyway, nobody seems to really care about this sort of thing, so we'll pass on this competition idea. Hopefully something else will sparkle some interest later this summer. :-)

Razor-X · Posted: Sat May 29, 2004 12:22 am Post subject:

Ohhh, a game interface. That WOULD be interesting.

Bjorn · Posted: Sun May 30, 2004 12:56 am Post subject:

Ok. Now if only more people had said that. :-)

Adam · Mage Joined: 30 Dec 2002 Posts: 416 Location: Australia

Ohhh, a game interface. That WOULD be interesting.
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Ninkazu · Posted: Mon May 31, 2004 4:58 pm Post subject:

Ohhh, a game interface. That WOULD be interesting.

If I had the time to do any of these compos. I need to get more work done on my larger projects before I have fun. I could end up using my compo interface in the game, but that would ruin the game a bit, wouldn't you think? Meh, I could probably add some more features after the compo to keep it interesting.

Fun fun.

Bjorn · Posted: Mon May 31, 2004 6:00 pm Post subject:

Laughing out loud. Who knows, we might have one after all. We now have 5 people that think it's interesting, let's say we'll do the competition with at least 7 interested people!

white_door · Posted: Tue Jun 01, 2004 8:30 pm Post subject:

hmm.. it could be very interesting indeed.

janus · Mage Joined: 29 Jun 2002 Posts: 464 Location: Issaquah, WA

Hell yeah, I'm in. Now that I remembered my password to the RPGdx forums (heh), I can post!

Augertion · Lowly Slime Joined: 02 Jun 2004 Posts: 1

Sign me up as well. It's my favorite thing to do in games I can never finish.

Bjorn · Posted: Wed Jun 02, 2004 10:25 am Post subject:

Alright. Now we just need time, place and guidelines. What about the first week of July, right here at RPGDX? We'll put no restrictions on theme for now.

janus · Mage Joined: 29 Jun 2002 Posts: 464 Location: Issaquah, WA

Are we going to allow interfaces designed before the compo, or are we going to at least require that they are somewhat original? I mean, all GUIs are somewhat derivative but some of us have really polished stuff we've been making for a while and some of us don't, so it might not be fair to allow stuff that's from our existing games or that's obviously taken forever...