Journal and Dialog menus - Narrative content
Skill Trees & Augment Skill Tree
Raid/Party Manager & Settlement Menu
Raid/Party Manager allowed players to customize and manage their party
Character Creator - background selection
In-Game Footage of Ashes of Creation User Interface
Destinies menu
This menu was a tutorial and progression system that rewarded players for completion of meta objectives similar to achievements and delivered rewards. The organization used ‘Paths” to group similar objectives based on systems, level, or intent and delivery meaningful rewards for players completion of those objectives. This system was extremely successful in our reports from the Alpha player base and was intended on expanding to include advanced Paths and objectives across all levels and systems.
Individual objective progression and rewards
Destiny ‘Path’ rewards and progression displayed
Fully customizable layout tool usable by designers and UI/UX Art & Design
Unique constellation artwork and states to display progression
Settlement Menu
The Settlement Menu was a vital part of the settlement system in Ashes of Creation. Settlements are player run hubs that required coordination for materials, gold, experience, and progression. This menu housed vital information for a variety of systems: Summary, treasury, building info, building upgrade system, settlement to settlement diplomacy, and relic storage and application.
Features:
Fully dynamic notifications on the summary page, each given a priority and by clicking, links to the relevant information deeper within the menu
Tracking of resources, resource acquisition, and taxes. All manageable by the player elected as mayor of the settlement
Full building construction and upgrade management system, with dynamic states notifying players of contribution or voting requirements
Settlement to Settlement diplomacy, storing information about wars and sieges. Eventually planned to expand to trade and collaborative efforts
Relic storage and management, a menu to manage the unique items that provided special benefits to the settlements that owned them.
Skill Tree Menu System
Dynamic system built to allow for modular skill trees. This system was fully editable by design and could support fully customized tree layouts across multiple systems.
Inventory, Equipment, and Character menu
These menus managed and displayed the effects of items within Ashes of Creation. Dynamic templates to manage tooltips, comparisons, equipment slots, and player stats display.
Dynamic tooltip templates, reading design data to display unique layouts and stats assigned to different item types
Multiple storage types
Items - simple 1 slot inventory containing equipment, consumables, mounts and other functional items items.
Materials - grid based spatial inventory, different materials occupy different sizes. Additionally the material inventory has bag selection that modifies the storage grid and maximum stack sizes.
Quest - Stored quest specific items without impeding on inventory space
Guild Menu
Tracking of guild members - online status, rank, level, and archetype displayed. Management of members available from RMB context menu
Guild rank management - management of the rankings within the guild, including permissions and access to guild storage
Guild progression upgrades - Guild levels provided points for players to specialize their guild for additional benefits, size, or unique perks
Ashes of creation - ui update - development & process
A monthly development update done by the studio. That month was focus was on the UI team, our pipeline and process. I am not usually in front of a camera, but it was nice to be able to teach people about UI/UX and represent the work that myself and the UI/UX team were working on.