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The feel of this interface is incredible. What's most interesting is that it evokes lots of memories from the games I played more than 20 years ago, and yet it
by Andrew_nenakhov 6y ago
The feel of this interface is incredible. What's most interesting is that it evokes lots of memories from the games I played more than 20 years ago, and yet it is very distinct and doesn't copy any of them. Feels almost like something very familiar, but you can't quite grasp where you saw it.
This is incredible and I'll be following this project, and probably will do something with this framework, too.
- hippospark 6y agoStarCraft
- Andrew_nenakhov 6y agomore like Homeworld / Outpost / Ascendancy / Invisible Inc / Mass effect 1 to me. But not direct ripoff any of them.
- soapboxrocket 6y agoInvisible Inc, the sounds are even on point.
- joycian 6y agoI think it's more Freelancer
- contingencies 6y agoSyndicate (1993). https://youtu.be/ACVZ5b8wW14?t=5954 https://youtu.be/ACVZ5b8wW14?t=5954 System Shock (1994). https://youtu.be/qKchS2GeimE?t=9 https://youtu.be/qKchS2GeimE?t=9
- jmuhlich 6y agoMaybe even more so the sequel Syndicate Wars https://youtu.be/ECHmCzXMFb8 https://youtu.be/ECHmCzXMFb8
- LukeShu 6y agoThe visuals aren't don't evoke StarCraft to me, but the sounds 100% put me back in to playing StarCraft in high school.
- otterCompile 6y agoIt reminds me of the StarCraft briefing room: https://superiorrealities.files.wordpress.com/2014/04/screenshot2014-04-15-17_45_37.jpg https://superiorrealities.files.wordpress.com/2014/04/screen...
- cevn 6y agoThe sounds are very Starcraftian
- scrollaway 6y agoThe UI reminds me a bit of a mix between the EoC:IW2 UI (https://gamefabrique.com/games/independence-war-2-edge-of-chaos/ https://gamefabrique.com/games/independence-war-2-edge-of-ch...) and the ingress web UI. The fonts are doing a lot of the leg work for that. Maybe a bit of EVE Online too.
- angryold 6y agoGod I loved that game (IW2). Wasted so many hours just flying around with the physics in that game. I'm in total agreement, I get the same vibes.
- scrollaway 6y agoAmen, my brother-in-space. It's the game that defined my childhood. The game that made me wish Star Citizen would be better managed. If I had infinite time I would fuck around Elite Dangerous all day these days, with flight sticks and everything.
- hosh 6y agoI got instant and intense flashbacks of Deus Ex.
- vanderZwan 6y agoThis actually shows something interesting: that there is a coherent visual language for interfaces within the sci-fi subgenre of graphic design that just kind of appeared by implicit consensus. Which I guess can be said for many visual design trends - many of us can guess both when and for what purpose a product was designed based on its graphic design.
- Andrew_nenakhov 6y agoBtw, the Holo interface we saw in Android 4 was very influenced by this type of design. It was rather stylish, even if difficult to use consistently. But of course since then it was replaced by Material Design, starting with Android 5.0
- pmlnr 6y agoGod, I miss holo. It was so much nicer on the eyes. "Dark Mode" is... ugly. I'm glad it exists, but it's still uglier, than holo was.
- Andrew_nenakhov 6y agoProblem with Holo it was hard to follow this concept and create visually distinct apps. They would all be cold white and blue. Material design gives for more variability.
- grishka 6y agoSome apps did change the accent color, but it was very non-trivial. Material design comes with tintable controls out of the box.
- grishka 6y agoThere were two Holo themes: dark and light. You'd pick one and extend it with the style of your brand. My only gripe with it was that there's no built-in mechanism to add shadows to things — you have to use pre-rendered shadows as bitmaps or generate them on the fly. Anyway, "dark mode" is totally doable with Holo.
- bityard 6y agoEverything old is new again. If you take away some of the animations and sound, this looks like around half of all the websites I visited in 1998. (Which mainly revolved around hacking and Quake.)
- pmlnr 6y agoFlash websites used to look incredible. Completely unusable, and without accessibility, but they did look gorgeous.
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- haolez 6y agoIt's also cool that this is simply a web app. If I want the full desktop experience, I can write the missing components myself (lol) and make this app fullscreen. Nice!
- Aeolun 6y agoIt feels very much like the Introversion games UI’s to me. Especially the hacking game (of which the name escapes me for a bit).
- andreareina 6y agoThat would be Uplink. https://www.introversion.co.uk/introversion/#games https://www.introversion.co.uk/introversion/#games