Weekly Update - 23rd August 2023

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Is this a Weekly Update?? oh… must have forgotten about that part, sorry!


Welcome back to another “Weekly” update which if not for my massive general laziness problem, would be an accurate title.


This last week I worked on adding Themes to The Idle Undead which currently only applies to the Main Menu, Which is the only part of the game that has had its UI revamped so far, This week the main HUD will be reworked!



Themes


Cause I like being able to customize the colours of buttons and stuff, I’ve added Themes to The Idle Undead!


Currently there very simple and change the accent colour of certain parts of the UI, Later I could expand it to add different designs to menus and add stuff like a Light Mode!



These are the current colour options I’ve added!

More will be added and some will be changed slightly for reasons such as readability, or cause I have a bias over Orange and Green.

I also plan to allow you to choose the very specific RGB value you like the most in future (You can technically modify the save file and do it now but no, that’s cheating (it isn’t))


Here are some of the themes so far:


When I remake the game’s HUD I will showcase that in some of these themes as well!


Sound Effects


Sound Effects need a lot more time but I’ve spent this week making a long list of the ones I need, Take a little look: 

There they all are, There’s quite a bit below this as well!

I plan to add these while I’m doing other work to eventually hopefully have a sound effect for everything on this list (even if some are temporary ones)


I’d also like to create some myself, or find people to help make some at some point!


This Week



This week I plan to remake the game’s HUD to:

  • Look Nicer

  • Match Your Theme

  • Allow Hiding Certain Elements


I also plan to add a wheel to access frequent menus, And allow assigning menus and actions to certain keys!


That’s about all for now!

See you next Monday (as if I'll meet that)

  • Oliver Macdonald

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