Power Star Unleashed - HUD / UI Design Process

Alright, I haven't really done this before.

Around a year or so back, I temporarily got involved in the creation process of Power Star Unleashed, the role which I had taken up involving a full on redesign of the game's HUD and menu UIs.

I had kind of left the project after I was done with whatever work that I took up. Fast forward to about a week or so ago, I decided to sit my butt down and lock in, and comprehensively document the work I had put in. This currently exists on my public portfolio page.

https://www.behance.net/gallery/225515465/Power-Star-Unleashed-HUD-UI-Design

Fair warning : It's a little long. And there's quite a bit of text in it as well. If it gets to be too much of a drag at times, it's only understandable if you skipped a little.

I also made some cute vector construction gifs from the assets I designed, and I'll leave my personal picks down here.

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BACKEND

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Timkho, the developer, was responsible for both implementing the UI, as well as animating it. I had given minimal direction on how I personally saw things get animated, but the final result speaks for itself. And I would say he did a fantastic job working with the nature of the graphic assets.

The final layout for chapter / level selection menu was handled by Timkho, following closely to the typographic language I had set earlier with the other menus. It was a great simplification to both the UX, and the layouts I proposed there, and I believe it warrants praise.

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IN CONCLUSION

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I'd mainly like to give thanks to the people I've worked with here closely.

@Fyar, director, for having taken me on, and for generally being very adaptable to most of the visual proposals

@Timkho, developer, for making it all click, and generally being a good source for aesthetic inspiration.

The others who have been involved in the creation of this game have been duly credited in the first slide. You've all contributed in the other departments that has brought the game to a cohesive end product, and you should be proud of that fact. Hopefully you guys will also get to showcase your work on this in the near future.

Lastly, I'd like to thank @D-SuN, I don't think any project related to Power Star, Armed With Wings, or anything else you're currently working could go without a mention of you. We'd never have reached this point if you didn't start it off all those years back.

It's been a unique ride. I'm glad I got to stay on for it as long as I did.

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I personally found the upload on itch.io to be a more convenient way to access the game, as NG doesn't link up with the Newgrounds Player easily for me, so I'm embedding the link to that here as well.

<iframe height="167" frameborder="0" src="https://itch.io/embed/3233456" width="552">
  <a href="https://acilunatic.itch.io/power-star-unleashed-legacy">Power Star Unleashed LEGACY by Acilunatic</a></iframe>

[edits will be made to this post accordingly. I wish there was a way to preview this before this gets submitted.]