Can I fix Zelda's UI using Unity?

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  @GMTK · 1 year ago (edited) · pinned

  Thanks for your feedback! I just updated the build on Itch with an improved spiral design - &nbsp;<a href="https://gmtk.itch.io/zelda-ui">https://gmtk.itch.io/zelda-ui</a><br><br>And if you&apos;re a GMTK Patron, you can get the updated Unity project and code - <a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/can-i-fix-zeldas-121699533">https://www.patreon.com/posts/can-i-fix-zeldas-121699533</a><br><br>Have a good day!

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  @mucketban · 1 year ago

  Imagine if Smash Bros&apos;s character select screen was just 1 narrow bar<br>It would take 10 years to select Steve...<br>Maybe it&apos;s not a bad idea.

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  @flamesdivde · 1 year ago

  I’d love a menu where the “neglected” echos look sad and lonely after not using them. The object could look dusty and covered in cobwebs. That might promote the user to try them.

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  @vincenzusgaming · 1 year ago

  Imagine if this becomes a fully-fledged series where Mark designs UI for different games. I think it&apos;s going to be amazing.

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  @TheSpaceMustFold · 1 year ago

  This is such a fantastic video! <br>I was the UI/UX Designer who brainstormed and implemented the radial/spiral menu for Prey (2017). I was inspired by BG&amp;E and had never seen it used for anything the 14 years since its release, but also wanted to improve it for a modern audience: <br>Firstly and most obviously - we needed to support Mouse and Keyboard which wasn&apos;t as easy as you might expect because with mouse we wanted a way to &apos;skip&apos; across the spiral and therefore we needed a way to determine if you were skipping up or down the list, and then lerp around to match the depth of the new selection. A lot of math was used to do all these calculations and was probably the hardest part to implement.<br>Secondly - we improved BG&amp;E because to me the biggest problem with that implementation was there was no spatial consistency between letters. Meaning that on your first loop, &quot;A&quot; would be at the 12 o&apos;clock position but on the second loop &quot;A&quot; would be elsewhere like at the 5 o&apos;clock position, 3rd loop would be at 10 o&apos;clock and so on. So what we did was we introduced empty positions to fill the holes of a non-complete spiral so that there would be a gap and then it would start at the same location again on the next loop. Therefore, &quot;A&quot; would always be at 12 o&apos;clock. I think having the gaps also had a side benefit because it gives the brain a breather and sort of a mental reset as well as a better sense of where they are in the spiral and so not as overwhelming. <br><br>Fun fact - I also did a brainstorming exercise to try to solve the UI for Echoes of Wisdom and I landed on the cross media bar as what I thought would be the best approach.<br>Anyways, just wanted to chime in with some behind-the-scenes info that seemed relevant to this video. Cheers!

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  @metropolis10 · 1 year ago

  So many channels skip over coding saying &quot;I&apos;ll skip the boring stuff&quot;, but this was a masterclass in making an accessible video about coding. Talk about what you&apos;re accomplishing and solving, it&apos;s not really about showing every line of code and explaining it. Well done!

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  @muno · 1 year ago (edited)

  I think for the spiraling version, it needs the Y position (and probably scale of each item) to grow/shrink as well as the X position. Currently it&apos;s seemingly just the X position, and I think that makes it really hard to read as the intended 3D spiral effect. If this is fixed / becomes more similar to the source material, I think it has potential to be the best variation of the UI

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  @TiredOx7536 · 1 year ago

  This is the kind of game where a dual screen Wii U/3DS set up would&apos;ve helped tremendously, with a proper detailed echoes menu on the 2nd screen

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  @justinsinke2088 · 1 year ago

  Alright, I can understand their intent of &quot;while looking through your options, see something that inspires a solution you hadn&apos;t originally considered&quot;, but the execution of &quot;making a clunky interface&quot; to force that &quot;aha&quot; moment seems to have had the opposite effect; making people not want to interface with it, likely having it sorted by most used all the time for ease of use, rather than stumbling on a new idea. Their design solution, essentially, ended up having the opposite impact as their intention.

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  @Stratelier · 1 year ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4vsgC41bYg&amp;t=465">7:45</a> - So on your first attempt, the auto-scroll behavior should stop when you hit either end of a list to avoid unnecessary wraparounds. &nbsp;You&apos;d have to hit the same direction again (after hitting either end of list) to actually wrap around.

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  @DokuDoki · 1 year ago

  Something I really appreciate is that you offered multiple solutions with different ups and downs instead of just, making one suggestion and insisting it&apos;s some kind of universal fix-it. There are soooo many people who preach one &quot;obvious&quot; solution to a complex problem without acknowledging how narrowminded their opinion actually is. I see this a lot in game balance feedback.

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  @yeahokdude3265 · 1 year ago

  At some point in this game, i just kept using the same echoes over and over again so I could avoid scrolling through the vast amount of echoes I accrued

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