I was unable to work on Rivalry because of an assessment week, but now that it is over I spent some time designing the UI that will enable people to both create, publish and download skins to be seen and used both locally and online. Although I haven’t yet created the actual UI within the Unity engine but have created some concept designs
(The options given for when viewing locally owned skins)
As user generated content always comes with the possibility of people creating and publishing inappropriate skins I have decided to also create a option where you can control the quality of what kind of content you receive. Of which there will be the option to:
- View no skins at all.
- View and use skins that have been rated as 'safe' (the default).
- View and use all types of skins with very limited censorship including peoples locally created skins.
All skins that have been published will go through an approval process whereby I decide whether or not the skin is 'safe', available to the public or shouldn’t be seen at all, ever.
(The options given for when viewing public skins)
The next step is to add this UI and its functionality to Rivalry itself.
Pending tasks are now
- Implement skinning UI and functionality
- Creating inventory system and skin database.
- Steam workshop for player skins.
- Complete network game lobby UI (make pretty and complete all network game modes).
- Complete network game restart UI (make pretty).
- Research different arenas and backgrounds.
- General bug fixing, tidy up and enhancement of look and feel..