UI Improvement

[ancient shell]

Since the next builds are probably going to have an UI overhaul for the player, i thought of making a concept for it to be clearer for the player to look through their entire playthrough. I really wanted to go toward a UI that made sense for the point of view in the lore, for instance, the watch presented is in the shape of an apple, it is only like that to show that the Golden Apple Company provides their own technologies to their employees when going for a mission. And as for important items, they should be highlighted in a "handrawn outline" when your cursor is pointed on it, as well as a small animation of a speech bubble appearing with additional information on the item, hopefully the idea will reach the developers for future builds. (EDIT : as it was said in the discussion, the item highlight system could be an optional feature depending on if the player wants it or not)

[grim agate]

Okay this ui is soooo good like what!? But that flashlight text is little too much glowing is good tho

I still cant belive this is just sooo perfect

Like i totally see this being official

[hoary sleet]

I am all for the new ui, perhaps the tool tips/item information could be optional though

[ancient shell]

yeah that could be an option in the settings, it can sort of ruin the atmosphere but can be cool for people who want some more visual-like instructions

[plain fern]

THIS IS SO PEAK WHAT

[snow obsidian]

I like this but I really don't like tool tips that appear when you hover over items in games

Text that appears over an item always feels intrusive to me

If you could open an inventory of some kind that would give you descriptions of the items, or the tooltip only appears the first time you hover over an item and not the whole game, then it would be fine

[ancient shell]

yeah as i edited the message this is just an optional feature for the player to choose from

[jade citrus]

This really would make the game way better

[inner cypress]

peak

[opaque bloom]

This is a fire idea

[lunar grove]

looks cool, kinda big icons imo, but nice, would like an option to make them smaller too

[hoary sleet]

Would be nice if you could manually set their size or just have them scale to your display as well

[pine dove]

this is amazing

[quartz heath]

This would be revolutionary if added

[snow obsidian]

As much as this is good, I disagree with everything except the watch in the corner. Having the banner where it says objectives/tabs is too obstructive. Its bright red and sticks out of the side of the screen and would be distracting

And I think it would be better to just have the rectangle around the inventory be transparent, and only the slots be visible

Even the watch is kind of big, maybe instead it would be a watch on your arm and you play an animation to check the time

HN games have never been really ui heavy. I'm not hating 🥀 this just my opinion