If you’ve seen my previous thread keeping you in the loop of a personal project of mine, hello again! Farm Life (if you weren’t already aware of its name) is a stylised farming simulator, with a strong sandbox focus. It has slowly grown, from new people joining the Discord and keeping up-to-date, to a new addition to the team, responsible for all the cool looking assets and animations you’ll gaze upon in game.
It seemed fitting that I make a dedicated, more organised thread pertaining to showcases, small teasers of what’s coming, etc. but less frequent than that of our Discord channel, which you can join here: PyEeFJU8NY
Looks awesome, a tad bit slow in my opinion, but otherwise fabulous!
I assume you made the UI and if so, what are your tips on making UI with such a neat and wonderfully executed theme, being the paper theme you’ve done.
I’m a truly terrible mentor, so as far as tips are concerned, I’m at a loss. I can tell you why I think this UI has the kind of character it does though.
Everything is flat, there are rarely any textures (apart from the repeating backgrounds for items). Some things pop more than others because of a slight bit of light, or shadow. But, I don’t use a crumbling texture overlay to make it look like paper. I add details, that make it look like it’s been ripped from a spiral-bound notebook. I add imperfections.
The right shape, necessary details and appropriate colour was all I needed to achieve the desirable affect, and alas, you and I both see it as paper!
The animations for the Market have been slightly sped up. (:
I’ve begun working on walls (each one will have a gated variant that can be interacted with to open and close). Additionally, I’m going to create a small build context menu, that will allow you to move, rotate or sell (for now).
And, here’s a small WIP of the hotbar (using placeholder icons for now).
You can join the Discord to follow our development journey: PyEeFJU8NY
nice ui, make sure to capitalize all sections, change animation easing style (way too linear or bouncy or whatever rn), and also maybe blur background when entering ui? and maybe add more things to the clipboard/notepad in the bottom right
i really like the hotbar animations, but it looks like it isn’t centered. also i can see some weird stuff happening with the fences placing and the schematic of the fence object…
i love it! i am a developer myself, i would ask if i could help but i am way to busy… but are you looking for any testers? i can bring constructive criticism, and I am very good at finding bugs. have a good day!
