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Hope everyone is doing well. I am making great progress on the game and have been working on finishing up all the UI changes for 1.0. This post won't be extremely long as most of my work the last bit has been focused on polishing up the UI, which isn't terribly exciting stuff. But, nonetheless, I wanted to write something to show off the new UI as I'm very happy with where it's going. It's finally starting to feel polished and not annoying. Yay!

New Font

I've changed the font to a more legible one that isn't bold, blocky letters. This should help distinguish the inline icons and make things easier to read overall. I, personally, love it and it has made a huge difference for me just developing the game, let alone playing. I'm very happy with it. And I have to give credit to Chevy Ray for making it.



UI Improvements and Organization

A lot of the UI elements now have collapsible lists. This is to help organize all the data that can come with a UI panel.

For example, below, the room designation now organizes rooms into categories based on function. As you discover new rooms to designate, they'll be organized under their respective category. As well, I've cleaned up 'active' rooms to appear at the top so you can quickly select and view those.

All the tooltips take advantage of these lists too. As you'll see below, the block tooltip shows all its contents in clean lists. And you can open these up when you select the block (holding TAB).

This is very useful when you need to view and select/deselect entities when a group of them is selected.

All the game screens are being updated with this functionality to clean things up. Here's a look at what the new game screen looks like.

Going Forward There is so much UI in the game to update, and I'm currently updating the room management, uniforms, diets, and settlers windows. It's a tedious process but I feel like I'm making great progress and I'm getting close to having something ready to play. We're getting there!

Thank you for reading and, as always, for the patience and support which you give the game. Hope you are all well, and have a great new year.