More Mumbling

Over the past couple of days I have been thinking on the game UI and how it should work out. I think I have gone though reasonable number of designs before ending up with something everyone should be familiar with.

The UI has to be usable on a phone. This drove a number of changes but with the end result the UI is more polished than it used to be. I ended up adding a whole load of transition to make parts of it disappear. This also looks a lot better on Desktop.

A new version of libgdx has been released. Yay! Many of the improvements look good. If libgdx continues to pick up steam like it seems to be it does bode well for game development in Java. The gradual growth in tooling that is appearing around is also a very positive thing. Simple things like the project creator is a nice, if small, addition.

I seem to have a lot going though my mind at the moment. Ideas for apps, games and website. Much more than I can really ever use. Every little while I get these periods. They are often associated with a high frequency of "chatty" blog posts. I think over this Easter weekend I will try to cordon of a period of time to capture some of them on paper so they are recorded ready for a few months time when I am fishing around for ideas. Once they are on paper they can be removed from my brain to make room for other ideas :)