GUI - Like it or not?

[Sowtis]

Working on a GUI for my game.

How does this look? Its simple but I like it, will upgrade the button icons and some other stuff after though.

The circular shaped part in the corner by the health / mana bars will be either the player's level or a portion of their player in there like a portrait.


[Kinjiru]

Looks nice, but rather bland and simple
7/10

[Sowtis]

Yeah I'm going to enhance it later, but this is basically the base layout.

Later I need to get a spell hotbar in there.

[Kinjiru]

Sounds good, its a nice layout
So whats your game?

[Lukin]

If it will be a game where you level, maybe the circular bar could state what level you are, and it fills up with some color, depending on how much you got in percentage of the level? Other than that, pretty nice GUI.

[Robin]

Those lines look terrible. They just look blurry. The colours are disgusting, the buttons don't look like buttons and the overlay bit looks jagged and distracting.

[zade_o]

Color theme seems very army/war-ish. Idk what your game is but if you're not going for that angle i would change the color a bit.

[Jeff]

Yes, I agree… I think the main color needs more work.  Right now it looks a little bit like throw up.  Of course, if you are looking for that color for a particular reason I'd say its pretty good.

[Sowtis]

I'm trying to find a suitable color but I just can't find the right one.

Any help guys? :)

[silentdemonic]

If you tell us what your game is about that would help.
For a generic theme I would say to use tones of White, Black, and some Pastel Colours that are soft and smooth on the eyes.
As robin said get rid of those lines I see them on website designs that scream "web 2.0" and I dispise them.
For GUI keep things clear, concise and simple. Those buttons e.g Inventory look like they are floating, a background block to lift them off the main GUI would help for starters.

[Sowtis]

I got some info about my game here:
http://www.touchofdeathforums.com/smf/index.php/topic,60893.msg642605/topicseen.html#new

Its my pixel artist recruitment topic but I don't feel like rewriting the info / copy & pasting it haha!

[Alph]

6.5/10

Not great, but still, pretty good I guess. Try working on it some more, then repost it.

[Nubbs]

it looks fine to me personally but id change the font and maybe people wouldnt worry about the color too much nice work

[Marsh]

Looks alright, i would remove the border around the thing and make the buttons less transparent. You kind of have a weird gradient going on and its bleeding through to the buttons.

[Helpmeplz]

Hmm… rid of those lines and add a real texture and make the buttons appealing also the hp and mp bars look bland and the hud they are on is choppy :3

[Sowtis]

Also, I was fucking baked out of my mind when doing this.

I did this in like an hour, and I had fun doing it. Its not the greatest, but it was good practice.

If you have anything to say that you might think is mean I don't care, say it. It may help me improve.

I want a flawless looking GUI! :)