Dev Log: UI Day!

Basic gameplay is working, and I was having some difficulties deciding what to do next. I chose to do something easy and fulfilling, so it became UI day!

I started out with setting a panel prefab parent, but realized the layout wasn't what I was looking for. I hit up my old friend Miro to do some wireframing.

Basic UI panel wireframing

Once that was done, I just jumped into engine and started working. I completed the following:

• Set up main Panel prefab parent
• Set up Button prefab parent
• Created temp button art and simple 9-sliced panel backgrounds
• Scripted Panel string updater so I don't have to hardcode anything.
• Will switch over to a string db at some point down the road. I've been wanting to learn how to do that.
• Set up Main Menu, Pause Menu, Gameplay UI prefabs (scalable to UI size)
• Clickblocker included for things like the Pause Menu.
• Set up Signal/Receivers for gameplay and pause menu.
• Stroke counter functional
• Pause menu functional (timescale set to freeze gameplay.
• Main Menu > Gameplay > Pause > Main Menu flow functional

That was a lot for one day, but again, super enjoyable. I've missed just building/scripting. The end result looks like thiiiis:

What's up next? Now that I have the UI working, I'm going to focus on getting the level select/progression structure built. Once that's done, I can start whipping together some more test levels and tune the gameplay to my liking!

Until next time!