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Project Inspiration

Both Hollow Knight and Dead Cells were the main inspirations for my game, because they are both set in a decayed and old place that is set apart from the rest of civilization with only a few other sane adventurers, merchants or just people, still living there.

I wanted to make a game like this because I heavily enjoyed playing these games and wanted to show that by making a similar game in this project.

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Stephen E Wilhite

Stephen E Wilhite was a computer scientist that was the engineering lead for the creation of the GIF, which reigned supreme for 8-bit colour images until PNG came along,. I think what he did was incredible for the internet

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Eadweard Muybridge

Eadweard was a pioneer in motion picture photography and helped lay the groundwork for the animation industury; one of his most famous works is the horse in motion which shows a horseback rider riding a running horse, which is incredible considering his time

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More Examples of HP bars and icons

In Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, your hp is shown as several little red hearts that go down by quarters, however, as shown in the image, Minibosses and Bosses have the bar style of HP as it's much easier to put a bar in place than having icons, It's also better for bosses to have this style of HP as it can mislead the player on how much health they have and in turn, how many hits are needed to take them down

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Health Systems - Icons / hearts

In Hollow Knight your health is shown as several masks, each representing 1 hit (unless an enemy does double damage), I much prefer this style of HP bar and is why I decided to use this style in my own game because it allows you to accurately gage how many more hits you can take and if you need to retreat or not

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Health Systems - Bar

In Owlboy, your hp total is represented by a bar, and how much remaining hp you have is shown by the coloured filling in the bar, Personally, I don't like this style of hp as I feel it can be a bit inaccurate when trying to determine how many hits you can take before you die.

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Widgets

Widgets are what you use in unreal engine to create HUDs, You add a canvas border then you can add images or text and so much more

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HUDs - Dead Cells

Dead cells really throws everything at you by the fact thaat there is a hp bar, scroll tally, potion fullness weapons, items mutations, collectables coins, cells and a minimap. Personally I quite like it, i like having all my information viewable

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HUDs - Cris tales

I really like the Cris tales HUD, I love the use of diagonals and slants, alongside the fact that it's informative is a big plus.

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HUDs - Mirrors Edge

Mirrors Edge has basically no UI, this allows for more fluid gameplay without a static HUD to mess up with the flow. Personally, I don't like it as I like having all of the important information at hand instead of it being hidden

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HUDs - Persona 5

Persona 5's HUD is very unique to itself; by that I mean that it fits the style and theme of the game extremely well, It's very informative, and looks equally great!

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HUDs - Dead Space

The HUD for Dead Space is unique for the fact that it's built into the game, This means that the player's character interacts with the UI, it is very good and I think it's amazing

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HUDs - Paper Mario, Thousand Year Door

The Mario HUD is very complex, There are HP bars for you and your companion, Bars for Coins and other collectables, D-Pad controls for the D-pad, All in all, the HUD is very good and very Informative but I don't like it that much, It's too all over the place in a bad way

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HUDs - Cuphead

The Cuphead HUD tells you how many hits you have left before you die, that's it, it's all you need to know and thus it does it's job well, It's very simplistic but i'm not very fond of it

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HUDs - Chrono Trigger

In Chrono Trigger, the UI tells you what enemy you are facing, how much HP you have, and the amount of MP yoy have, I personally think that the UI is OK, It does it's job and that's all we need

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Eternal Castle

Eternal Castle has one of the most restricting colour palettes I've ever seen, it however manages to make it work amazingly, The colour palette emits a rather eerie feeling with a very detailed design too

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Dave the Diver

Dave the diver is a game about sea exploration, the colour palette doesn't restrict the design of the game, but there are certain blue hues when underwater to mimic the colour distortion in real life.

The colours give a happy, neutral mood