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Create toggle to make HP red and hunger blue

Create toggle to make HP red and hunger blue
Posted 2020-12-04 12:29:04 (edited)

I can't be the only one who associates red with HP thanks to way too many MMOs & RPGs. I've had way too many incidents where I'm like "YES, I will fight this thing!" only to realize oh wait, that bar that was full was HUNGER, not my actual HP bar because I'm seeing the red bar and just rolling with assumptions while forgetting Wolvden is different..

So, my critique of UI design is as follows! Because the "standard" gaming UI colors are used in the bars, they should likely match expected shorthand (or be different entirely). Thus, make HP red, not blue. If hunger was purple or something, I feel this wouldn't be as big of a deal, but red has been beaten into people's skulls since 256 color days. ALSO NOTE that in the fight screen, HP is red there anyway. It isn't even consistently the same color across Wolvden itself.

As a secondary critique I think the order of the status bars in the UI isn't the ideal. I would think that they should be in the order of things most effecting your wolf, AKA energy (prevents immediate action), HP (prevents a percentage of actions),  hunger (takes longer to have an effect on actions) and then XP (does not effect actions). Obviously this is a less major crit but combine it with the color switch and it would end up being the same order of colors as the bars on the side as they are right now. 

So, combine the two and in my ideal world the UI would be:
Energy - Gold
HP - Red
Hunger - Blue
XP - Green

But honestly if we can't do that, can we just get a settings toggle that swaps the colors so my brain sees red full bar and it is HP, no matter where it is in the list? Then if it doesn't bug people, OK, cool, they can leave it. I probably can just make a CSS edit via Stylish to change the bars on my desktop, yes, but that won't carry over to my phone, obviously. It would be best if it was built in.

Thank you for reading!

Onyx Serpent
#5584

Posted 2020-12-05 04:09:21

Yes! Yes, yes yes. I almost always confuse hunger and HP and it kinda...baffles me, in a way, that HP wasn’t set to be red. It’s minor- but lmao I think it’d be nice.


Tinyelephant
#1143

Posted 2020-12-05 04:52:48

Big support! I've gone into few battles before and immediately got my stuff wrecked and/or had to flee because I confused the hunger bar with HP at a glance. It really needs to be more clear. I agree with both changing the colors of the bars and the order!


Zephiiyr
#18861

Posted 2020-12-06 10:58:38

in the pokemon game series health is green and exp is blue maybe something similiar



junko enoshima
#10052

Posted 2020-12-06 13:50:55

Now that you've mentioned this I'm never going to unsee it so, support.


Soul
#6229

Posted 2020-12-07 17:40:27

Haha, you're welcome, Soul! ;) Join us in the misreading HP/hunger bar pain train, rofl.

Onyx Serpent
#5584

Posted 2020-12-07 17:43:10

U m .

okay I support at least a way to be able to change the UI, because sometimes I’m just feelin’ special ^^

Maybe I want all the bars to just be fire, and? Can’t I have flame-consumed bars?? :,)


✨𝙱𝚊𝚋𝚢✨ |:| Mutie Breeder!
#13511

Posted 2020-12-07 17:46:30

That could be a personal css thing. I think it’d be much less taxing on coders to include only simple switches instead of something like that.

(unless you’re like, joking. Hard to tell.) 


Tinyelephant
#1143

Posted 2020-12-07 17:47:40

(I’m kind of going for a little bit of both, @Tiny. XD I still want fire on everything tho)


✨𝙱𝚊𝚋𝚢✨ |:| Mutie Breeder!
#13511

Posted 2020-12-21 17:35:09 (edited)

I wonder how much confusion the color change would cause to Wolvden community who got used to see colors as they are for now.

Also, you didn't mention which color mood bar would get. If it stayed sapphire, I wouldn't like hunger to be blue too.

Generally, I like the color pick as for now. Energy yellow like bolt, hunger red like meat. Green is survival rate and experience - the first for pups, the latter for adults. Blue is HP (sapphire) and mood (navy) - the first is major for the lead wolf, the latter only for pack wolves.


Dżanek
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