Systems: HUD, Audio, FX, Game Data, Cutscenes, Intro Sequences
Everything around the rules: what players see and hear.
HUD
Lay out what players see over the game. Turn widgets on or off, then set each one's anchor, scale and opacity, and watch the stage update.
| Widget | Shows |
|---|---|
| Health bar | The player's health, live. |
| Resource counter | Ammo or another resource, live. |
| Timer | Round or session time. |
| Minimap | A top-down view of the map. |
| Event feed | Announcements and rule results. |
| Inventory hotbar | Held items. |
| Dialogue box | The first line of authored dialogue. Triggering specific lines from gameplay is not yet wired. |
Audio
- Library: upload MP3, OGG or WAV files up to 5 MB.
- Mixer: Master, Music, SFX and Ambience levels.
- Zones: place a sound in the world with a position, a radius and a smooth or linear falloff, so it gets louder as players approach.
FX (3D)
Materials holds presets with albedo, normal, roughness and metalness maps; textures and normal maps can be generated from an albedo. Particles holds the particle presets used by effects.
Game Data
Three databases: Items, Quests and Dialogue. Item names feed the Give item and Take item actions in Logic. Quests are used by quest conditions and actions. The first dialogue line shows in the Dialogue widget.
Cutscenes (3D)
A cutscene is a short cinematic of up to six seconds on five tracks: camera, actors, post effects, audio and signals. The camera can pan between points or track a placed character. Post effects are bloom, chromatic aberration, noise and vignette. The project's first cutscene plays once per session at the start.
Intro Sequences
The first seconds of a session, as a layered 2D timeline: sprite, text and particle layers with timed transforms. Sprite layers read from Pixel Studio; text and particle layers work in 3D projects too.