1st year project
Ah Solid Metal Tactics. The greatest isometric turn based game to never exist.
The brief
Create gameplay screens which would allow the player to see appropriate information about a selected character
The brief went into great detail about cyborgs and mercenaries, about war, aliens and extinction of the human race but I know what they meant. XCOM for the 3DS, so that’s where I took my cues from.
The scanlines, the neon lettering, the cut corners are all inspired by its logo and UI. Although I suppose the cut corners are from everything ever so ignore that. Let’s look at planning before I continue to argue with myself.
No plan survives
contact with the enemy, so they say, but hey, would you look at that, mine did. I knew I wanted weapon selection on the top screen and stats on the bottom in roughly these layouts:
And I had a look through all these games for some inspiration:
Voila
I also stole (with permission) a small bit of menu backing-tuneage from secretive, Bristol-based producer, Doroma.
And ended up with something like this:
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