#space beards

“In the meantime: good heavens, what a beard for Oscar Isaac. Villeneuve is confident enough to let the beard slowly grow before the big operatic set-pieces … He has constructed an entire beard for Isaac, thick with myth and mystery, stripped of narrative signposts or even much in the way of handy exposition … We’re on our own, wandering in the Isaac beard, wonderfully immersed. It’s a beard of discovery; an invitation to get lost.”

So when you first boot up Space Beards you are greeted with the aftermath of a ship exploding. Currently the menu is static as objects + wiggling dwarves float around. Whilst this provides a cute little effect at first I find it lacks a lot of impact or juice so I have come up with a list of ideas to prototype: - overhaul the text design of the buttons (and include the ones that will be needed in the future such as unlocks) - add better animations to them - use Cinemachine to move the camera around as you pick options. Such as when you pick Play it turn the camera and zooms in to the ship and takes you to level select, or when you select options it can pan the camera around to a ship in the middle of exploding. Just to add some life to navigating the menu. I want to find a balance between fun animations and effects while also not wasting the players time. Nothing can be more frustrating than having to sit through seconds of animations as you press each button and just want to get into the game I will post updates as I implement and prototype each step to here and my twitter! 

Space beards was our first major product at Angry Cactus Games. It is a cooperative ship repair game where up to four jiggly space dwarves must keep their space ship together as everything goes wrong. The game is currently hosted at https://angrycactusgames.itch.io/space-beards if you would like to give it a go yourself. Whilst it isn’t our current active project I am personally redoing the UI as practice. It will be one of the first things I focus on through the blog

The lovely blog of space beards is helping me get a galactic grizz look! What a great blog. Check them out at http//www.spacebeards.com !

Why dont we talk about trending blogs enough?

I love that when I go to search something one of the trending blogs is space beards.

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