Work on Dusk Tactics continues at a slow clip with the building blocks of the game being coded and tested. I like to also focus on graphics as I develop something like this so that I am able to further my experience with image editing programs as well as get a break from the coding process to work on design.

User Interfaces are extremely important in all types of games and I personally enjoy working on them. I like interfaces to be clean, minimal, and intuitive, all while making user interaction as simple as possible. A mistake I used to make, and still do, when working with the graphical side of UI is to over emphasis the aesthetics and end up with something that is too ornate and over-flowing with unneeded information. This is about as far into graphic design as I would like to go. As much as it would be fun to design everything from characters to sprites to animations, there are limits to both time and talent.

Hopefully there will be more information about the actual gameplay in the next news update. Even if I don’t get to coding anything beyond the basics of the game, I’d still like to iron out a basic plan for how this game will play and the various systems it will include.