UI Exercise

My exercise for today, the in-game menu user interface. I can't deny my compulsion to load down the screen with information. Trust me I TRIED really hard to be a minimalist, lol. One constant in all of my games will be the scoreboard keeping track of how many times things happen.. important things, & sometimes random things.

Hitting LT will cause the screen to become aqua instead of cyan, as it is the boy's character page.

I've never made anything like this before & I need to stop before I add something else to it.

HUD Exercise

Project Meridian HUD
Just a quick initial preview of the heads-up-display. By quick I mean, this took like three hours... This is my first attempt at actual user interface design. Clearly I'm no environmental artist, as I opted for wireframey lines! But the mech looks... okay. Remember the point of this exercise was the HUD!!!

I really like the classic, pixelated look on the HUD for that retro 2d platformer feel.

Need more diagonal lines. But I'm going to bed now.

Project Meridian // Sapphix

Sapphix
The secondary character, Special Modular Android SAPPHIX 00. She comes in 2 colors.

Severyn Hours // Severyn

Severyn
She is the main pilot of Sky Reaver 04 [who's AI is also a pilot, Zerofour], a space-jet mech with multiple forms.

The Stratomancer suit, known as a Carbon Veil, is what synchs the pilot to their jet & allows the mech to follow the pilots' natural movements for control.

Game Ideas

A closer look at some of my game ideas.
Severyn Hours

sci-fi

2d vertical SHMUP [Ikaruga]

nebulous galaxy speckled with planets; some planetside flights

space combat, stunts, galactic exploration, ship/weapon leveling

single playable character

1p
Blue Stasis

sci-fi

2d horizontal SHMUP [Gradius V]

post-apocalyptic planet flooded with water from a more recent cataclysmic event

surface/underwater combat, stunts, stat leveling, item collection

2 playable characters

1p
Synthetic Angel

cyberpunk/sci-fi

2d action adventure platformer RPG [Megaman X8]

post-apocalyptic Tokyo city, with Earth turned mostly into a desert after the war

exploration, combat, leveling, character collection

many playable characters, 1 customizable character

1p - 2p
Project Meridian

sci-fi/survival-horror

2d puzzle platformer [Vector Man/Shadow Complex]

a colony ship on emergency power adrift in space, filled with mutilated corpses

puzzles/obstacle course, combat, item collection, character customization

two playable characters

1p - 2p
Oneironaut//Girl from the stars

sci-fi/romance

2d puzzle platformer [Limbo]

Earth in the near-future

obstacle course, item collection, story unlock

single playable character

1p
Benevolent Blade

scifi/steampunk/cyberpunk

3rd person action adventure RPG [Kingdom Hearts/Grandia]

post-apocalypse heavily-reappropriated-technology-based sky-pirate Earth

party-combo combat, character collection, stat leveling, equipment customization

many playable characters

1p - 2p
Carbon Ego//The Human Experiments

aka CE/THE

scifi/cyberpunk

3d brawler versus fighter [Power Stone]

megacorporatation/gang-run dystopian future-Earth

combat, item collection, weapon upgrading, leveling

many playable characters, 1 customizable character

1p - 2p

Ideas © OLIVIA MARIE HAMILTON 2008 - 2011