Monday, 13 September 2010

Game Interfaces

Many PC games use very complicated, but really unique interfaces. These have many functions and the buttons function as sub-menus.

Interfaces fit the specific genres like the Final Fantasy series, WOW and Runescape. The interfaces can show a combat screen, menus and use items to complete quests. The interfaces are designed and planned by artists, so the quality of the interfaces are quite good.

Concept art

Within the games development team there are concept artists. Concept artists create the characters in form of sketching simple and detailed pictures to help developers create characters and environments. They also provide blueprints for all the other artists and to inspire them to develop the concept further. They may have the developers to put it in different environments to see if the concept of size and to see if it is suitable. Here are a few examples of concept art from great titles like Halo 3 for Xbox 360 and Bioshock 2 for the same console and also PS3.