GresilleSiffle
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5 years ago Some ideas I would like to share:
To highlight who is currently playing the portrait corresponding to the active character could be bigger, or have any other form of emphasis
To not confuse the player, the party members and ennemies portraits could have different border colors, or shape, or anything that seems clear enough. Different border colors is good in general but not for color-blind people, icons are better.
In a second iteration maybe it could be useful to have a little lifebar under each portrait to have a global vision of what's going on. And in a third time, what about a tooltip displayed when the mouse is over the portrait, that displays a more detailed state of the character (status effect, bonus, malus, etc.)?
NathanLovato
From a player point of view, when a combat starts there is now way to know in which order the characters will play. It is a little confusing and I think it is an important feature for a turn-based RPG.
One solution could be having a small list of portaits, displayed at the top of the screen, that represents the turn order.
Here is a screenshot from Halcyon 6 and an other from Divinity: Original Sin.
Having such a list will help to:
In Halcyon 6, this list is dynamic. That means if a character speed increase or decrease, the list is updated on the fly. Also there are always 12 portraits displayed, twice the number of characters present in the combat.
Let me know what you think about that : )