can someone help me with setting up some UI for my game?

[pulsar zealot]

id rather get this out of the way first so i can have my fun later actually making the game and not spend my time making stupid interactive buttons on the screen plss helppp 😢

dms pls if ur willing to help

[red shard]

but muffin, this is what actually making the game actually is. no one said it was fun. much of it is, but also much of it is not.

you say you'd rather "get this out of the way", but all you're making way for is another similar problem that is, in all likelihood, slightly more difficult, that if you cannot solve the one in front of you now, how can you solve the next? this is making a game.

[pulsar zealot]

true

but

[red shard]

but's intensifies

focus on what you're trying to do, not reasoning why you were stuck

[pulsar zealot]

i am

[merry gyro]

** You are now Level 4! **

[pulsar zealot]

wait

go to dms

i have smt i would like to tell u

[red shard]

no, you got this, dont need dms. i belief in you

[pulsar zealot]

alr then ill say it here

i think id like some help yknow, and not just from a AI assistant or from youtube tutorials because that gets boring fast. i like the idea of being able to build a game with someone together, being able to actively communicate and do problem solving together, and not 90% of all the work being one person. i get that its pretty hard to do stuff like this together because i have asked people many in the past about this, all i ever got was a maybe, and then it ended up with them ghosting me. all though more than half the time if i ask do co-dev a game the person would be like "how much per hour?" or smt like that like they expect payment. when in the end, all i really want is to make a game with someone for FREE that we can enjoy making together and have fun with a project like this.

[woeful pond]

yeah there used to be a channel for that

but uhh i think they removed it

[red shard]

the fantasy of that is indeed fun. the reality is not. deal with it

[void badge]

yeah you wont be anyone to do it for free. you can post it in #💵︱hiring

[void badge]

your so wise

[pulsar zealot]

i dont got money to give so

i thought this would happen

[void badge]

gotta live with it

[woeful pond]

i mean

you could try to uhh

get a friend

[red shard]

i didn't ask for money. if i were to ask for anything, i'd ask for evidence you can even remotely handle even 50% of the work.

[woeful pond]

oh yeah

management issues exist roo

*too

[pulsar zealot]

the evidence would be the fact that id rather have more ownership of the game itself bcuz i actually did

[red shard]

maybe that's something comissionewbies forget. offering 10% of the project, also means that person takes 10% of the responsibility.

[pulsar zealot]

since im the one asking its bcuz i rlly wanna do it and im willing to do more than my ig "fair share" of the work

[woeful pond]

so you want to do 70%?

basically?

[red shard]

and lest forget even more the fact that if we start to truly evaluate the proportions of work being done, why would i sacrifice 90% of my work to receive only 10% of the reward of my own efforts?

and that's all assuming ahem ... "Your" project does or does not flop

[pulsar zealot]

idc how much of the work im doing is however much more than the other person/s

[red shard]

you're asking for more than you might think you're asking for

http://dontasktoask.com explains it well

[void badge]

holy crap thats perfect

[red shard]

yeah i'm sure you don't care, but i do. how can i work even 10% with someone that doesn't care on the level i need them to?

[void badge]

you expect someone to sacrifice their time, skills and effort just for a portion of your game.

[void badge]

nor is this evidence

[red shard]

of their game* is easy to take for granted

[void badge]

well

yeah

[red shard]

so... not to be cruel or cowardly, but there's a reason private work comes with a price. there's lots of ui artists in #👷︱for-hire if you don't want to do UI yourself. and trust me i know how annoying ui is.

i hate ui... but i still do it because it is essential to making games. you gotta do what you gotta do 🤷

[woeful pond]

yeah UI is def hard to learn

its hell

its kind of sad tho

knowing that you can't get help for free

[red shard]

can't get work for free*

[pulsar zealot]

actually yeah now i get it

im asking too much

i probably worded some of what i said wrong too

nvm guys ill js keep trying by myself but thank you anyways tho

[red shard]

a bit, yeah. but i see it as just a matter of understanding how the ecosystem works. e.g you don't need super epic flashy mcfancy animations, you just need animate legs go brr backflip and you can hire an animator later if/when (AFTER) your game works. but not before. it's easy to upgrade when you're already there. it is very much wasteful to make it perfect the first time.

[pulsar zealot]

@red shard you actually gave me a really nice and helpful way of seeing this

[red shard]

don't give up. ui is annoying, but it is generally the hardest to screw up

just use scale instead of offset and you'll be right

[void badge]

aswell if it doesnt look perfect first try, dont worry. it takes time to learn

[pulsar zealot]

im honestly asking too much of myself

im new to roblox game developing

like new new

maybe a couple weeks

and im alr trying to make a souls like game

plus i was only asking cuz i feel like the ui is gonna be the harder part to

[woeful pond]

pretty sure the harder is always the scripting

but UI is hard too

[pulsar zealot]

not AI at my side

lol

im joking

im gonna be using chat gpt for most of my work

but im not gonna be copy and pasting

i like having to type in the script