Project Zomboid gets new interface!

These last couple of days we’ve been doing a fair bit of work replacing the placeholder UI we’ve had since the start (that we all hated), with something swankier and easier to use.

It’s work-in-progress, so there’s a few things not in the correct place or unlabelled – there’s no scroll buttons for the inventory or any indication of capacity for a start, but we thought you’d all like to see it anyway.

So here it is:

We’ve dropped the concept of literal left and right hands in favour of the more general main and secondary hand slots because otherwise things get a little confusing depending on whether you’re left or right handed.

The inventory panel swishes in from the left-hand side which means that there’s much less screen-space obstructed when running in lower resolutions. We’ve also tidied up the mechanic of actually transferring items between containers and your inventory so that there’s less clicking and dragging required.

You can also see the crafting panel here (currently without a title in its title bar). This is only on-screen during the actual crafting process, but we kept it as small as we could without it becoming cumbersome.

In a game where you need to scavenge for supplies pretty often, having a nice tactile and easy to use interface is of primary importance, so it was definitely something to improve before we go live with the demo taster version.

Please continue to discuss this (or anything else) in our forums, just as long as you don’t hate the new interface 😉

9 Replies to “Project Zomboid gets new interface!”

  1. Items and shading look the best! UI may need a little less contrast on the pixel-line edges. Item slots could use to be a wee bit bigger than the items themselves.

  2. It looks good, but some of the lay out makes it seem like a “point and click” finding game. But besides that, I like the symbols etc etc.

    Keep Up the good work!

    Rancorist

  3. Looks great, I hope to make a purchase of droids soon and get ahold of this game in the future,

    it sounds like the kind of game i’ve been waiting years for an actual zombie survival game,

    I hope over time more and more features get added and it really shines.

  4. only shortcuts on the keyboard comes a bit short at the moment 😀 but its a pre alpha god damn. 😀

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