As I plan for the future, I was thinking more about the User Interface. I know I've made posts about it before, but there's always more to think, new people joining or more ideas have occurred! I was really broad about it last time too, so I think focusing more on a single item would be helpful.
This time around, I'm curious about your thoughts on UI Buttons.
For Extracurricular Activities, button control is in top right corner. It controls a variety of things like hiding the UI, Save/Load, Fast Forward/Skipping, Options and Text History.
Some VNs use buttons like that, some use just plain text.
What do you prefer?
In the same vein, placement.
Do you like them being easily accessible all on one screen? Would you prefer one button that opens a different menu? Do you like them being integrated into the dialog box or separated?
Share some of your favorite layouts with me if you can! I've plotted the layouts for most of the other projects I've created, and I'm usually pretty happy with what I can come up with, but getting feedback is always good (I don't do the art, of course, I just lay things out!).
On top of that, I posted on BSKY not too long ago looking for UI Artists! I only got a couple of hits, but I'd like to expand my pool a bit more, so if you guys know of any artists who enjoy doing UI work, give me links to their work! Ger can do UI stuff, but I'd rather have him focus on character art.
That's all I'm looking for regarding UI stuff this time around!
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As for the MORE part... There's new merch available in my store!
https://www.wolfbiteinteractive.com/merch
Choco finished up the Dwayne dangler keychains, so when I had those printed, I figured I'd order some other stuff to see how it all turned out.
We have the 3" Dwayne danglers (clothed and Underwear), a 3" sticker pack including Dyne, Darius and Chester (done by Mark Thorne) and then the 3x4" pinup card pack done by CaptainGerBear. This cards use the Pinup images you can unlock VIA the Pinata in ExcA.
The cards are the wrong size cause I chose the wrong option, so I might not reprint the big ones. I might try to do a normal card size next, but we'll see! (I only have 8 bundles left at the time of this post) *EDIT - You guys ate those bundles up, but there are some individual cards still! I just didn't have enough of certain ones to do more bundles. (The people who printed them sent me weird numbers of each, haha)
You can see the full images on my website, since I can't post them here since this will go to be a Public post later, hah.
Anyhow, that's all I have for now! Thank you in advance for any input about UI stuff, and thank you to everyone who's already purchased the new merch! (I announced it early VIA discord, and this post will have some early access too!)
Again, a Happy Holidays to you all! Thank you too <3