Madscripter

I see DayZ Like this. My ideas in pictures, for a better game: The inventory system OR , The second version (With some deocrations on the right side, backpack/M16) LINK: http://img856.imageshack.us/img856/8786/d136.png 1) I know that in current stage, where theres a lack of game content graphic is not important. But a game is game. and graphic is a must. and I see how lost Dean is with how to show the player what's going on with his character At first we had no notifications, was based on Sounds, then it was in the chat, and then he added the notifications of Thirst/Hunger/Bleeding to the Inventory/My character mirror. I don't really support showing bars in the inventory like I designed it, but I think it might be a good idea. (The notifications as they are by the character are very nice anyway) 2) The show equipment button would allow you to hide/show the equipment you're wearing (hiding it will show you the character as it shows right now in the game, allowing you to rotate and stuff) Inventory system (second version) Not everyone likes the idea of having a too styled UI. I agree. the whole idea with dayz is the simplicity of things. Minimalistic interface. I made this second version, I believe it's abit more polished than the one the game currently has. Not much changed from dayz version to this when you look at functions, except for: Glass design (Transparent), colored notifications, quickslots, kills/status, and the hunger/thrist/bleeding/such notifications that are already in the game. just colorized here. The Main menu: 1) Continue: will continue your character story on the last server that you played on (They already have that right now), while hovering on it it shows up with the Players and the current server Time in a fast tooltip. 2) Survivor Stats: Showing your survivor's name and latest session statistics (the total play time, number of each kills). 3) Changed the first two buttons to Continue and My Survivor. In the next few days I'm going to upload & add more ideas that I made to this thread. The wall of text bellow will be more justified as I add more screenshots soon. The ideas here are not neccesarily have to be in the game, My goal is applying to the Art department, and this is an overall "Showoff" (sorry, don't want to sound like a douche!) of my skills and what I can do for this game. I'm also aware that this is Alpha. What i'm uploading is ideas for the future. I never said add it now or the exact thing, just lure ideas from it. Who am I: My name is Eddie. served as a graphic designer for the Military for 3 years with 8 years of photoshop experience (Yes, the military needs art, heh). Nowdays I work on my own 2D game called Gang UP (check it out if you're interested). The art in the game and the website is made by me. Note that this is not an attemp to promote my game, I chose a nice picture packed with photoshop work. So any moderator who see this, if there's a problem i'll remove all the following lines and pictures. just contact me first , please. More examples: http://www.playgangup.com/images/media/screenshots/ingame/1483918_1443342395887169_2130655571_o.jpg http://www.playgangup.com/images/media/screenshots/ingame/newbackgrounds.jpg Why am I doing this? I tried to contact the developers of DayZ about applying to the art department, many times - and never got an answer. The way I see it, the HUD and UI in DayZ looks bad. I believe I can make it better. I know they're all placeholders from the Alpha - but for a graphic designer who loves what he's doing, it's easier to produce a good looking work rather then a bad one regardless to what state the project is in. (It really is) You may see this as a public attemp to contact Dean Hall through the General Forum, since Emailing Bohemia Interactive never worked and he's forum inbox is disabled. 2D Art , UI , HUD Graphic designer & Web developer: That's what I do for living. I have 15 live websites of customers I serve, and a portfolio of thousands of work. I don't know if they already have 2D Art UI/HUD designers, but I know one thing for sure: I can make dayz look better. there is much to work on, and if you guys help me and this thread gets bigger, it might make it's way to one of the developers, or Rocket. I've made a forum thread like this an year ago. When The War Z came out, I created about 20 photoshoped screenshots of the game with new ideas. I uploaded everything to the forums and I've reached 100k views and thousands of positive replies. Why? Because I wanted to be a developer, and I wanted to help. I've caught the attention of all the game developers (5 of them, including the lead producer) and they all had commented and monitored my thread. Eventually, everything was added into the game. not the way I designed it, but I believe that suggesting in pictures and making the developers actually see their game looking better, gave them some ideas to what's in the game today. Know this - I'm not trying to compare between the Zed's. I haven't actually played War Z for months. (once in a while I go back to check what's new) I know that some of you think War Z is crap. I respect your thoughts > and I'm only saying I made this kind of thread on the warz forums and it was successfull. that's it, so try not to hate me. War Z Photoshop Examples: http://img339.imageshack.us/img339/213/tradeui.jpg http://img338.imageshack.us/img338/7244/clanstorage.jpg http://img203.imageshack.us/img203/1385/socialinteraction.jpg Aftermoon Photoshop: http://imageshack.us/a/img208/2698/testaa.jpg NOTE: I AM recycling some of my art from other games since I'm not using them anymore. Some of the things here might look the same. More stuff can be found on my dropbox: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/w4a63y8827f0wx6/CGUIh1HL2O On subject, If you don't like my ideas i'm open minded. please feel free to comment here (just please be mature and try to be nice), AND if you have any more ideas please send them over PM and i'll make them. I have some free time. When I started this thread on The War Z's forums a year ago, I started with one photoshoped picture. made almost 20 a few days later since I was flooded with ideas. So before you comment, or hate: I'm photoshoping ideas. and the rule in this thread goes like this: I post one > You post yours > I make yours > I post yours > others comment on each and so on... I come up with the first Idea so that others can post their thoughts about it, this way I can make a new one with their notes and requests. This is all made with good spirit and passion for this game :) Thank you

+1 brother

mah machine cant even run low settings <_< darn

Read the latest few comments that you guys made, thank you very much. I will work on some new stuff, and yes this is good exercise as Jimieus said. Points taken.

well, i'm also here to learn. and as for the title, i changed it. I'm not that good with phasing lines. Well, i understand that most of the people like the dayz as it is, even with the placeholders. I also understands that you don't like it that polished, or round corners. i'm only trying to add more ideas. whenever I upload a picture, I get the comments about it (good/bad) and with the comments i'm creating a new one, which is ABIT more to what the author meant. It's like a game, look at it that way. it's fun for me, and I have some free time so it's all good. and there are two ways to explain yourself, one in a good way saying that you don't like it, and second is saying my work is shit. i'm willing to take both answers, and i'm willing to answer in two different ways to them. both I understand, since you don't have to like it > just be more mature with the comment, i guess?

thanks, I did forget to add dirt more dirt, whenever I add textures to gardients and blocks they always look better. and as for the item slots, I wanted to make them transparent with round shaped corners, margin from each other but I didnt have the items as transparent .png files, so i was too lazy. heh :) 1) did you even read anything from what i've said on main thread? I said, I know it's alpha, and I know there are more important stuff to deal with. and this is not just a post about inventory, it's about many more stuff. 2) I don't play around with Photoshop. I work with it every day for the past 8 years. you could atleast say something nice but you choosed to mock. mkay. Gotcha. I have some more stuff i'm working on. i'm doing it this way. I must say, people here tend to forget it's just ideas.. and the idea of this thread is that I post one > You post one > I make yours > I post yours > and so on... heh, tuna slap right in my face :o

its all good. you don't have to like it

don't worry child. the money flow is good <_<. it probally updates every few hours.

I enjoyed this so much. The trance part and the asian talk part killed me Can I play with yous :D ?

Have a look at this :) Added a new version of the inventory, A more clean one. thoughts? :blush:

In the next designs ill probally do that. ༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ GIVE MOAR IDEAS

Lol ^ this I'd support that. I always had problems with shoot on sight, and i always play in groups. afterall, we all need to socialize. one might go crazy if not (specialy in the zombie appocalypse) :D

I must say, I agree with you even though I made it. I do regret doing it, and this is why I made the other version aswell. (i'm switching between the links right now, i think that the one without the decoration should be as a main pic) Because I think that it doesn't belong there. Whatever you see here, just ideas crossing my mind while working on the picture. after reading comments here I kind of change my mind about stuff. The game should have minimum UI, I agree on that. I'm still going to work on new stuff so I'll probally come up with better stuff that you or others who thinks as you might like.

I believe it's working too much. this is a funny bug: This russian guy was talking in chat and the whole server could hear him, he started singing and talked with his mom without noticing while i was shouting "SHUT THE F* UP" to him. Eventually had to mute him :P Onsubject, go to settigns > and set the voice chat key to K that might do the trick. note that it only works in proximity, whoever is close to you. not server wide. or, test your microphone see if it actually works on skype or teamspeak for you. come back with results

I really appreciate that, thank you both. and yeah.. it's all done in good vibe. I want to see this game getting better as much as everyone :)

Added another one. the main menu~

Lol Two different worlds, i'm aware of that. I'm not trying to compare, by the way. in any kind of way. only comparing forum threads, saying that I did this photoshop thing back in the days when the game came out. Thank you. I hope so too.

Both.

Oh, I added a button up there that allows you to hide/show the overlay. i'll add an explanation. And guys please think about it this way, I'm trying to apply to the art department. I'm just doing it in a more public way (How it turns out, I don't know. I'm having fun doing it for now) and the ideas here not neccessarily have to be in the game. it's mostly to show what I can do to make this game better. And I agree on having a clean UI aswell, this is why I made two versions. because at some point when I worked on it It came up to my head that this game is less about UI and options.