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Create engaging 2D Game UI with Inkscape!
Rating: 4.4 out of 5(68 ratings)
1,527 students
Created byIstván Szép
Last updated 11/2017
English

What you'll learn

  • Create fresh User Interface for 2D video games with Inkscape
  • Create several types of icons and buttons for your game UI
  • Use Inkscape on a higher level to create what you need for your game (i.e. menu items, buttons, icons)

Course content

5 sections • 19 lectures • 3h 53m total length

  • Welcome to Game UI design with Inkscape!1:32

    Welcome to the course! Download Inkscape if you don't have it yet, and get your notebook ready!

  • The 3 Cs of good game UI design3:57
  • What is HUD?2:51
  • Before you draw: SKETCH!2:02

    A very short lesson about the importance of sketching

  • Basic Button Bases18:13

    In this lecture we create 10+ button bases you can use in ANY game- and learn to draw in Inkscape a bit more!

  • Aligning buttons4:20

    Though aligning will happen in most of the lectures, it is important to understand it to use it properly.

Requirements

  • You need the free software Inkscape
  • Inkscape knowledge is not obligatory, but a very basic knowledge helps!

Description

A good game needs great graphics, nice music and cool characters 

- and of course a well designed game user interface!

I created this course to help the indie developer community to create clean and engaging UI designs for their games. Even if you are not a designer, you can just download this free software, and follow my course! :)

During the course we will use the amazing open-source software Inkscape. Inkscape is a vector graphical software, which makes it perfect for 2D game element design.

During the course we will learn the theory of game UI design, and we will create:

  • several icons and icon sets

  • buttons and menus in various styles

  • 2 versions of UI design for a fantasy game, 

  • 2 versions of UI for a space shooter,

  • and one version for a casual gem stone game

We will also draw an icon set for a ninja game - that lesson is a free preview, check it out!

Although this is a beginner game UI course, a basic Inkscape knowledge is good to have. I stop and explain every single step I make, but you have to work on your own confidence and skill level in Inkscape.

Important: We will create all the buttons and icons during the course, however, recreating the game screens shown in the preview and used as a base to design on during the lectures are NOT part of this course!
 Also, this is a UI course, we are not working on the UX part of he design.

Who this course is for:

  • Developers, who want to design their own games
  • Designers, who want to learn more about Game UI Design
  • This course is NOT for you if you are a seasoned UI designer. This is a beginner course!

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