Sunday 29 March 2009

Reintegrating the UI

I've been having thoughts about reintegrating some of the extra windows (e.g. Monsters and Minimap) into the UI:


Compare this to the Crawl Tiles UI:

However, I do wish to achieve a clarity in the UI comparable to say, Paprika:

I asked this question a long time ago (October 2007) in r.g.r.d., and to be honest, I've still not made up my mind. But I'm definitely not satisfied with the current interface.

2 comments:

Sid Datta said...

Why are some monsters represented as numbers ? will they be the same way in the final version ?

Dave said...

They are mainly demons (and some elementals) - most of the other letters have been used by other types of monsters alrady.

If I can come up with a consistent labeling scheme (and am very open to suggestions on that front) then they will change.