Development Update: No sooner said than done

I've been tackling the redesign of the Create Character wizard. When the muse takes you...

The work is not yet complete, but the new design is a lot more consistent and fun to use than the old. It now goes Race & Gender -> Class -> Kit -> Spells -> Name/Portrait/Personality.

Race/Gender and Class both benefit greatly from redesigned screens. Kit gets a whole screen and will become a "first-class" choice. Moving the personals section to the end adds some focus to those details.

Kit choice! Kits will include their own descriptions, names (they're currently named after the primary weapon), and a set of modifiers that replaces modifier assignment. This will make for a great chance to add some flavour, and hide new players from the complexities of weapon attack modes and spell book favoured modifiers. A redesigned screen will give me the chance to display all the starting items of each the kit for inspection by the player.

Work outstanding is the redesign of the kits screen, and a lot of data entry content creation around kit names and descriptions. I'll post some screen shots when it's done, I think this blog needs more picture.