dkh: That may be a little too dark for me, hm.

I overdid it a bit in order to show my point.

Please don't leave the colors as they are, because the foreground is just as desaturated as the already desaturated and contrast-lacking background and it all fades together and it's really hard on the eyes. Believe me or take a look around at other platformers, they all use saturation and contrast for close tiles or objects because it adds readability.

Quick color-edit on PypeBros' version. Can't see the other images because they won't load for some reason.



Added contrast to tile-layer in the foreground for better readability.

I'm working on a real-time strategy game with the working title "Troopers". I'd like some critique on my latest version of the GUI.


The numbers on the top of the screen represent resources (not happy with this yet, bad readability? - icons will be replaced once I figure out what kind of resource the game's gonna have in the end, btw), the buttons on the bottom-left are used for special orders/actions depending on what unit is selected (crosshair: attack, arrow pointing down: stop, shield: defend, construction tower: construct production structure, flask: construct research structure) - of course, a marine won't be able to construct anything, this is just a mock-up to show off the icons, bottom-right is reserved for the radar-map and the middle shows statistics for the currently selected unit (in this case a marine, which is a small ground unit [important to know for the player because of how damage is calculated] and two attack-upgrades for it and no armor ones have been upgraded, symbolized by the icons.

I'm trying to enhance this GUI as much as possible, both visually and functionally. The battlefield itself is not a priority right now although it IS an ingame-show so you can, if you want to, drop a few lines on it as well, it's just not nearly as final as the GUI yet.

Any feedback is appreciated.

Please, please do change the eyes away from that generic cute anime-rpg thingie, it really doesn't fit the Terrans in StarCraft any... AT ALL. They're rough guys, they smoke, the swear, they're dirty.

Apart from that, the Space-Marine looks better with the new colors. For the Siege-Tank, I'd advise you to study more reference material (both from the first and second part currently in development) - that is, if you want that tank to actually be a Siege-Tank. It just looks way different design-wise.

Can't comment on the tiles. What do they represent? Sand? They are not readable in the slightest, try thinking more of a structure behind the shapes and not of the shapes themself (ie. try drawing/shading little stones or whatever, don't draw random lines and dots in a way them seems nice when zoomed in).