It seems a silly thing, but lately I keep coming back to how utterly soulless and just awful current GUI tends to be.
Every new game I try, even genres where a delightful GUI used to be a staple like RPGs, has this bland white text on dark semi-transparent panels. No borders, or very simple "clean" ones, it's all so cold and designed to "disappear".
I could be very wrong, but is this a symptom of the movement for games becoming "more cinematic"? That desire to avoid looking at the GUI entirely?
(I see this in mods as well, Witcher 3 or Skyrim mods to hide GUI and so on)
I dearly miss the days of tactile, stylish skeuomorphic GUIs you could find pleasure interacting with. Nowadays the only game I can think of that does this is like...Mario Kart?
I mean to say - comment with your favourite non-subtle GUI, idealy with images or video! :)
#GUI #gamedev
Jan Pospisil /
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2023-12-30 10:00:40
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