Need help Designing HUD for Platformer.

Frazzle

After switching up my art style for Shade, I decided I needed to design a HUD for the health/XP bars and realised I'm still !@#$% at creating original pixel artwork. I have a terrible attempt here at doing a health HUD block here @ - http://frazz3l.tumblr.com/
Any ideas for the health and XP 'display' for the HUD that matches the art style? Feel free to comment on the overall look of the game aswell.
Thanks, FM

Frazzle

Bump.

natzuur

I actually kind of like it. You could put a red-ish box behind it and make it shrink/grow to fill it up/lose life. Maybe play with some variations on it.

Frazzle

http://frazz3l.tumblr.com/
Just created a new HP/XP HUD, sorry about not responding, though your input is appreciated. Any feedback on this?

matarua

Here's a look - firstly the two bars are too close together making them hard to read and distinguish the writing. Crammed inside a block is not suiting the open minimal style.



So to combat that I ditched the box and changed the HP for a heart - picture is better here in this combination. I put them side by side as that fits the design better with the widescreen perspective. I removed the box and gave them sufficient spacing. I made the XP much more subtle as that is not super important.

You will notice colours that a next to each other on dark backgrounds will appear smaller and bigger depending on their colour - I addressed that that by having the bars on same horizontal plane.

How does this look?

Cheers, M@

Frazzle

Just re-updated it with that HUD system, haha. http://frazz3l.tumblr.com/ - Thanks for the help once again, mat.
FM.

matarua

Just saw this - all good

FallingBoxStudios

I really like it Love the simplicity