As part of my time at BloxByte Games working on the Ghost Simulator project, I was responsible for improving the title over time and creating new features, essentially breathing new life into the game and carrying it into the future. Part of this process involved new work on existing UI. Some examples of what this looked like are below:
Above, you can see the old teleport UI. This was created before the advent of “The Remnant Zone” world, and so the UI doesn’t quite work for displaying all of the current worlds. There is actually another world teleport button on that UI that you must scroll down in order to see. Not very intuitive or great UX, right? Well that has since changed! I implemented a much more ergonomic change to this menu which can be seen below.
This simple, yet effective change allowed players to much more easily view all of the worlds that are part of the game, and allowed us to display a coming soon label for upcoming worlds! Not only this, but we also introduced lock statuses and level requirements to display when a player currently does not have access to the given world, something the previous menu didn’t support.
The code for this can be seen below.