Devblog Update #07: UI and Fortresses

We’re Marching forth with another devblog for Jasper Vice! This time I’ll be talking about UI and Fortresses.

UI

There’s some skills I have and can do well, there’s others I can manage and get buy, and there’s others I just really haven’t developed. UI design is one of those last ones. Thankfully I have friends who can fill in those gaps! We haven’t had a consistent UI theme for the game yet, so we had to come up with one. I don’t know if we’re all the way there yet, but it’s looking tons better, and I couldn’t have done it by myself! So far it’s just the dialogue screen, pause menu, and main menu, but now that we have a theme, we can apply it elsewhere.

An in-game dialogue UI display. — Dialogue works and looks great!

The Pause Menu screen — I love the frosted glass look.

A very uncoordinated UI screen for getting User Feedback — This screen is my own work... It needs some help.

Fortress

As I had mentioned in the last blog post, I’ve been working on a central fortress structure for the training area. The idea is that it’s the focal point for the various mission types that will take place there (eg. Assault, Defense, etc.). Because of in-world lore reasons I couldn’t just make a big stone castle (with floating islands in the sky, stone is a precious resource), so I had to come up with something else. I’m pretty happy with what we have now! I’m sure it’ll need some tweaking as gameplay gets tested, but it’s tons better than it was. 😀

A test wooden fortress design with log walls. — 2. Tested making it with logs, but didn't feel right.

A wooden fortress with towers made from giant trees. — 3. Experimented with giant tree towers, and liked it!

A wooden fortress with log stockade walls. — 4. Added the stockade walls, but still felt plain.

A wooden fortress with flags and streamers. — 5. Colored the roofs, and added streamers.

A wooden fortress with trees and rocks. — 6. Changed out the ground, and added rocks and plants.

A wooden fortress with trees, rocks, and moss. — 7. Added moss to structures to make them feel old and "jungley".

Thanks for reading! Hop onto our Discord to say hi! This train still has a long way to go but we’re glad to have you along for the ride… Do they have trains in Aethra? Sky trains??? Hmmmm…….