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Fighting Game UIConcept

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This is my first post to Tsumea, and while I've been visiting the site for about 2 years now it feels good to finally get involved and show off what I've got.

I've been working on a User Interface design concept for a fictional fighting game. This was mainly to explore different options for the possible layout and design of in-game menus and HUD for a fighting game, while also mapping out the timing and flow of some of the menu transitions.

The screens which I've been conceptualizing are:
- Single Player - Character select
- 2 Player - Character select, stage select/round settings & VS Screen
- In game HUD

A short functional Flash concept of the Single Player UI can be viewed at www.lighterfluid.com.au/vault/FightingUIPrototype

All character artwork thanks to the talented and generous Moski Tsai at www.mosukino.blogspot.com, while the background artwork on the HUD concept is thanks to Netherrealm Studios (but don't mention it to them, as they might not know I've borrowed it).

Let me know what you think, any constructive feedback or critique is definitely appreciated.

Cheers :)

Submitted by spae on Sun, 27/11/11 - 10:38 AM Permalink

It definitely looks like a character select screen! I think the black and white character bust shots are great, but I'm wondering if they're used for anything/anywhere besides when you pick a character in the menu.

The bright flashy screen is very characteristic of awesome fighting games, but it still strikes me as rather too bright and not enough contrast. The background is pretty distracting from the actual character/character menu, although that's much more of an issue in the 1P screen than the 2P screen. It's a little hard to read some of the text. Also, is there a reason the icon for the P1 selected character has turned all one colour on the two-player screen, while the P2 character hasn't?

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 01/12/11 - 4:38 PM Permalink

Thanks for the feedback!

In regards to the text, ytese screen shots obivously aren't at full scale, but I still think I agree with you about the text being hard to read, particularly for the Ultra's. I might make a revision to make these labels a bit larger and clearer.

Also, I should have specified this a bit better, but the 1P Character icon has turned blue because it has been confirmed and has now moved onto the Ultra Select menu. The 2P still hasn't selected their character so their icon is still active and they don't have any Ultra Combo options yet. You can see it in action on the Single Player character select screen here: http://www.lighterfluid.com.au/vault/FightingUIPrototype/

Cheers :)

nice to meet you

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Hello world

I'm an aspiring concept artist and I'm interested in the wonderful world of game development. Somebody told me about Tsumea recently, and I thought this might be a good place to start :)

Lately I have been working on speedpaints to build up my illustration and painting skills. I'd love to hear any feedback or advice or just a reasonably-friendly hello

It's nice to meet you.

Submitted by Alex Prentice (not verified) on Fri, 14/10/11 - 7:49 PM Permalink

For a moment there, I was like "WTF?! Is that Arjun Rampal?!" And then it turns out it actually is! Nice to see some other desis uploading something desi over here. ^_^

Submitted by spae on Tue, 15/11/11 - 9:35 AM Permalink

It is! :D I'm glad someone recognised it!

Also: what's a desi? And all good :)

new work

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more new work

feedback most welcome

more fanart

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Some more fan art to practice painting/drawing

Chiu

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Submitted by davidcoen on Wed, 27/04/11 - 5:53 PM Permalink

i quite like sky_city, wedding, B_01 and 22_02_2011
the spacial representation and elegant expression of movement of sky_city, teh creativity of language of wedding (waterfalls? white fountain jets? with falling leaves sureal moss covered architecture)
bit confused by underworld, though the confustion may be the point, looking down into the depths of the earth eaten away by silly scale construction.
good stuff

samsara

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Submitted by davidcoen on Mon, 18/04/11 - 10:11 PM Permalink

wow, quite simply that is incredible. composition, detail, technique and creativity.

you seem strangely limited by correct human proportion, i guess intentionally to maintain a strong link to realism, but occasionally armour/ costumes/ masks can break size convention and be quite a bit larger or smaller than they reallistically need to be, just thinking of african masks and the 'deserter', but you presumably have a much better idea of what you where trying to do than me looking at a few pictures for a few seconds can deduce.

thanks for sharing and welcome to queensland.

Character updates

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Hey guys, here is a couple of character designs. The truckie was done a while ago but I have given him a bit of an update and added a background. The sci-fi guy is all new.

Submitted by big t (not verified) on Sat, 26/03/11 - 10:35 AM Permalink

nice work.

has a really australian surrealist color style/feel about them. ie. sydney nolan that sort of thing.

blue moon

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can you feel that?

Submitted by Hannah (not verified) on Fri, 11/02/11 - 4:14 PM Permalink

This is amazing! I have an interest in fantasy worlds that are very like 'alice in wonderland' kind. i really like the innocent cartoon overall look.
can you elaborate a little on your process and the tools you used.? great work keep it up!

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