Main Menu

[DerSaidin]

Main menu items (Feel free to discuss synonyms for these items in this thread):

• Play
• Options
• Demos (or Replays, Recordings? Demos is quake convention.)
• Quit (or Exit, whatever)

Other elements on the main menu:

• Credits (like half the size as the others, possibly separate to the others)
• Version & Build (Somewhere down the bottom, in a corner, even smaller than the credits)
• Title (large, centered somewhere - above or below menu - whatever looks good)

Our present concept has developed a little from Jani's concept: http://jani.legendat.org/menu2.jpg
With modifications:

• Two player models on either side of the menu, facing each other aggressively. Makes menu symmetrical.
• Fog rolling over the bottom of the player models
• Casting effects on player's hands, change when you mouse over different menu items.

Other Menu graphics (not used on main menu):

• Button background (possibly variations for clicked down and mouse over)
• Scrolling arrows (up, down, left, right)
• Some kind of frame for map preview pics?

Loading screen graphics:

• Progress bar at the bottom (obviously divide into pieces so I can make it fill up)

Other graphics items not covered in this thread include: HUD, scoreboard, console (background, whatever), spell icons.

[DerSaidin]

Also, for main menu music Q009 offered us this piece:
http://soundcloud.com/q009/q009-meanings-updated

It may not suit the style/theme of the game, but that may not matter for the menu.
I guess it sounds pretty clean, sort of goes with the (minimalist sort of) white BG in the current concept?

[Jani]

Some stuff I put together: