The game looks well designed and it has some cool mechanics/functions, but I’d recommend an UI redesign.
2 Likes
A UI redesign? What did you have in mind?
2 Likes
The current design has a somewhat old-fashioned and corporate feel to it that doesn’t quite align with modern Roblox UI trends. Updating the color scheme, typography, and overall layout to something more contemporary could enhance the user experience.
1 Like
We didn’t want to add too many colors to the GUI in fear of making it seem to messy, but maybe we didn’t add enough colors!
Just to be sure, do you consider this a major issue, because reworking the entire GUI interface would be an extremely time-consuming process that would limit us from working on most other features for a while. What I mean is–does it make it significantly harder to navigate through important/relavant features, is it asthetically horrid, etc.?
It’s not that you don’t have a point, I just want to know how important and impactful you think this change would be.
1 Like
In my opinion, UI is one of the most important elements of any Roblox game. Considering your current UI and its layout is difficult to navigate and doesn’t look visually appealing, some changes to it could help a lot.
1 Like
Yeah, I suppose it isn’t necesary to have a tutorial pop-up since there’s already a button for that, though, unless you have any objections, I think it’d be best to keep the daily reward pop-up for now, and just make it happen a few seconds later.
This is most definitely a glitch. Thank you for pointing that out!
To be honest, Cardmental is strictly a multiplayer-only experience. Maybe we could add some sort of bot gamemode in the future, but for now, I’m not sure if it would be worth it to include in the base version of the game. Thank you for the feedback though!
1 Like
Ok, I understand! I just have a few questions:
Do you think some shortcuts (eg. to daily rewards or missions) would be helpful? Or do the locations of certain buttons make it harder to access? Also, are you talking about the lobby, the matches, or the game as a whole?
Lastly, what would make it more visually appealing? More colors? More GUI tweening?
Sorry, I’m just not sure where to start, and I don’t know what the end goal is supposed to be either. Could you please elaborate? Thank you!
1 Like
The lobby UI is the most in need of a glow up. As an example, when I click on the button “Rewards”, this is what pops up:
For a player new to the game, this could be very confusing as there’s lots of different “sub-buttons” and categories/filters.
Here’s a YouTube video that could help you if you design to go through with a redesign: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zH8Obf3e9E
Ok! Thank you so much! I’ll check out the video ASAP!
1 Like
I don’t think you need to remove the popup altogether; just changing when the different UIs appear would help. For example, maybe the daily reward UI would only appear if you said no to the tutorial so there aren’t multiple popups on the screen at once. Maybe you could add a welcome screen with a play button and only show the popups to users once they click it and spawn their character. That would allow players to get their bearings before dealing with the popups.
2 Likes
Ok! I’ll try to incorporate your feedback! By the ways, what do you think of the actual main game? I’m just wondering.
2 Likes
After watching the video, I can see that some of the GUI padding isn’t equal on all sides, as well as the fact that some text buttons have text that’s too big. Thanks for linking the video!
To cover the confusing aspect of the lobby gui, would something like this suffice? (Please note, this is just a showcase example, so some things might not be perfectly symmetrical.)
Hopefully the arrow input system for the sub-buttons will differentiate them from the main buttons, and make it less confusing. Please lmk what you think!
2 Likes
I’m not sure if a welcome screen would fit this kind of game, but I definitely will improve the timing on the popups. Now the daily rewards should only appear after you’ve selected no for the tutorial. Hopefully this is satisfactory enough!
2 Likes
Conceptually, it seems pretty unique. Trying to accumulate the most value while also using your valuables as weapons is an interesting idea I haven’t seen done before. I also like the idea of a trade period in between rounds. I can’t say how well any of this works in practice though because I haven’t tested it with another player yet.
If I were to make a gameplay suggestion, it would be to let players aim spells with their mouse rather than the direction being based on where their character is facing. I think this would make aiming more intuitive.
2 Likes
Do you think that would be more intuitive? I thought it that releasing the abilities in the direction of the character was intuitive enough. Is it really that confusing? If so, we can change it.
1 Like
I don’t think it’s too confusing the way it is now, but changing it could still be beneficial. Since a lot of games use the mouse to aim projectiles, I would personally find it more natural to aim that way. It would also make it easy to change your firing direction quickly without needing to go into first person or shift lock.
It looks much better. Nice job!
Thanks for the feedback! Now that I think about it, being able to use the mouse to aim projectiles would lead to many other strategical benefits as well. Thank you for bringing this to my attention–I’ll hopefully implement this sometime today or tomorrow!
Also, slightly unrelated, but if we have the time, we’ll try implementing a bot fighting gamemode that you can choose to be teleported to if you are alone in a match.
1 Like
Thank you! I’ll also fix some uipadding issues.
Thank you @HollywoodPLUS and @fungi3432 for you feedback! We’ve updated the game with almost all of the feedback you offered (though I’m still working on the bot system). I’ve created a new topic for the updated Cardmental.
Topic: New topic