Doing good UIs is SO HARD!

I put a lot of effort upfront for my UIs to work with mouse, keyboard and gamepad. I've completely rebuilt my UI manager with proper use of constructors and structs but complex UIs can still be tricky.

Just missing a progress bar.

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Looking back at my old Flash Game Animals - Home Free! (2013) and I'm still kinda proud of the writing.

Play here for free if you fancy it:
small.itch.io/animals-home...

First animation for The Princess and the Porcupine.
This is the young mysterious witch.

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We are honing in on a visual style for our garden themed hidden object game. Here's a work in progress scene from the desert biome.

We use a few shaders to add papery texture to the objects, a blur around the mouse position and a heat haze for this specific biome.

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I'm very happy about the map generator for Mega Drill. It churns out very varied and interesting maps and can be easily customized (adjust map size, how much mountains, water, population there is).

Here are a few random maps.

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WIP style test for the new game. Going for a paper book look with fun transitions.

How does it look so far?

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Added some better looking UI and started implementing some options the player can add to his drill.

Here you can see the mech mole quickly moving around gathering ores for the player. That's a very powerful tool!

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Apart from Mega Drill, we also have this cute little hidden object game in early development.

What do you think?
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