Edd Coates is founder of Game UI Database. Game UI designers use references to iterate on existing design patterns and provide players familiar, intuitive experiences. This allows us to onboard them ...

'Interface In Game ' is a free project that summarizes the user interface (UI) of video games. Interface In Game is developed by a dedicated team of enthusiastic volunteer gamers, designed to help ...

RPG maker Atlus has become celebrated for the unique UI designs in its games, from the Persona series to the more recent fantasy epic Metaphor: ReFantazio. I spoke with Metaphor's UI designer Koji Ise ...

When Autodesk pulled its game development middleware from sale in the summer of 2017, it was something of an end of an era for GUI. The popular – even beloved – Scaleform was no longer to be offered ...

One other type of UI that’s become indispensable in recent years is Spatial UI. Unlike the HUD types (mainly diegetic and non-diegetic), spatial UI exists within the game world to serve the player, ...

Video games, like any medium of popularity and note, have a rich and vibrant history that deserves to be preserved and admired. It should come as little surprise that for every facet of this rich ...

What just happened? Users with Steam beta updates enabled may notice some significant changes to the user interface with this week's updates. Valve has reorganized the desktop and in-game overlay UIs ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The guys over at DigitalRune have released their game UI package that include .NET packages, ...

The newly launched Game UI Database turns an often-overlooked aspect of artful video game design into a headlining star. For most people who play games, on screen accoutrements like ammo readouts and ...

It’s easy to forget just how much goes into creating incredible video games. A game’s story and gameplay are easy to appreciate, but behind every masterpiece are hundreds of expertly designed ...