GUI design for a dungeon crawling action RPG

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I’ve been working on an dungeon crawling action RPG in my spare time (and have been making great progress, too!).

I’ve been using the built-in GUI styles for Unity GUI elements for my inventory and statistics windows up until now, so I decided to finally throw together a design concept for my interface in Photoshop.

Let me know what you think!

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I like it. Nice and clean. Depending on your game you may want to make the metal frame a little bit darker, not much. Aside from that, nothing I would change.

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Thanks! Yeah, I thought about making it a little darker, but the art style for the game is light-hearted for the most part, so I’m trying to go for bright cartoony-grunge kind of motif. I’m drawing a little inspiration from games like WoW and Torchlight.

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“Sword of Pwnination” lol. Love it!

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I love torchlight! and that is looking quite good! You will have to show us some screens of when you get that look achieved in Unity.

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Does League of Legends have much to do with your chosen art style?

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Art style, no, not consciously at least (although I guess there is a lot of overlap in the gui design of most fantasy games these days).

However, some of my basic game mechanics are lightly inspired by DoTA/HoN/LoL. Did you gather that from the fact that the sword had +damage instead of a damage range? Hehe :slight_smile: