Rats and Ruins

So this weekend I mostly worked on… no that’s a horrible way to start a blog post. Sound too much like a Fast Show sketch.

Anyway I worked on the UI some more. As you can see from the screenshot there’s now some actions assigned to the hotkeys. I’m not going to have the hotbar endless configurable like Everquest. 1: Because I personally think it’s actually annoying when you forgot to turn on/off draggable icons or you made the bar too small or big and you can’t read the chat or other ridiculous UI problems. 2: Console users will not really want all that anyway. they’ll just want to be able to assign an action to an appropriate console button.

I’m trying to keep it simple. So 6 actions assigned on 1 bar. Then you can flip to another bar with mouse (or use L2/R2 on a PS4 for example).

I wanted to get a health and power bar in this weekend but it’s not ready for this post. Shouldn’t be too long though. I’m planning on going with a bar along the bottom of the screen so it doesn’t obscure the play area too much or require your eyes to look around too must. It will be a double bar. Green at the top for health and probably blue or orange for power/mana/stamina or whatever it ends up being.

Moving on… I’ve started to add some ruins for some giant rats (first enemy) to wander around. I’m not amazingly happy with the look of the ruined walls. I think i make make them more mossy but it’s early days on those. They don’t blend in with the grass of the terrain where they are anyway so that will have to change.

“So much to do, so little time” as the Joker once said in the Tim Burton version of Batman. He also said “Ever dance with the Devil in the pale moonlight?” which makes less sense and has no relevance to this post at all.