{"id":289,"date":"2011-04-14T20:46:58","date_gmt":"2011-04-14T20:46:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theindiestone.com\/binky\/?p=289"},"modified":"2011-04-14T20:56:22","modified_gmt":"2011-04-14T20:56:22","slug":"project-zomboid-gets-new-interface","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theindiestone.com\/binky\/2011\/04\/14\/project-zomboid-gets-new-interface\/","title":{"rendered":"Project Zomboid gets new interface!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

So here it is:<\/p>\n

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

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Please continue to discuss this (or anything else) in our forums<\/a>, just as long as you don’t hate the new interface \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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