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| ID | Project | Category | Date Submitted | Last Update | |
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| 0004404 | Valley 1 | Suggestion | Sep 30, 2011 10:33 pm | Sep 30, 2011 10:38 pm | |
| Reporter | mrhanman | Assigned To | Chris_McElligottPark | ||
| Status | closed | Resolution | won't fix | ||
| Summary | 0004404: Title Screen Suggestion | ||||
| Description | I was just sitting and staring at the title screen, wishing I could just passively marvel at the scenery, but the menus and such kept getting in the way. I think the title screen could be vastly improved with just a few simple changes. The general idea is, this is a very beautiful game, and I think the title screen could show that off more. First impressions, and what not. I think the menu bar should be moved to a single horizontal row across the bottom of the screen. The logo should be in one of the upper corners, or in the middle. It should also be smaller. The scrolling text should be moved to the side, or possibly left off entirely. And the controls should be moved to a submenu or removed. Basically, the general idea is that it should show off the various scenes like it does now, but you should get the other stuff out of the way. You could even eventually have a computer controlled character running and jumping around, maybe blasting random monsters. I realize this would be pretty low priority, but I think it would add a lot of polish. | ||||
| Tags | No tags attached. | ||||
| Internal Weight | New | ||||
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Unfortunately, most players would hate that sort of thing -- I did just that sort of thing with putting the visuals centered and the menu out of the way in AI War, and it's gotten nothing but complaints. A lot of iterations have gone into this menu already, and at the moment it functions well at every resolution from 800x600 and up, so I'm pretty well done with it. Remember this also has to look good at 1080p and even larger -- shrinking the logo is something that then gets complaints there, for instance. Generally speaking, if someone wants to see the graphics of the game I'd expect that they'd mostly actually start the game and play. Not that I don't appreciate the suggestions, but the main menu has been a personal odyssey of mine and it's finally where I'm happy with it, so I'm not keen on major shifts at this time. |
| Date Modified | Username | Field | Change |
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| Sep 30, 2011 10:33 pm | mrhanman | New Issue | |
| Sep 30, 2011 10:38 pm | Chris_McElligottPark | Internal Weight | => New |
| Sep 30, 2011 10:38 pm | Chris_McElligottPark | Note Added: 0015097 | |
| Sep 30, 2011 10:38 pm | Chris_McElligottPark | Status | new => closed |
| Sep 30, 2011 10:38 pm | Chris_McElligottPark | Assigned To | => Chris_McElligottPark |
| Sep 30, 2011 10:38 pm | Chris_McElligottPark | Resolution | open => won't fix |
| Apr 14, 2014 9:28 am | Chris_McElligottPark | Category | Suggestion - General Idea => Suggestion - General |
| Apr 14, 2014 9:30 am | Chris_McElligottPark | Category | Suggestion - General => Suggestion |
