Homework
In this chapter, we looked at many aspects of UIs in the first part, whereas we got handy with it in the second part, by implementing a UI within our game. However, before going on to the next chapter, I invite you to take a look at these exercises to improve your UI designing/programming skills. They are divided, for your convenience, into two parts: the first to improve your designing skills, and the second to improve your programming skills.
Improving UI designing skills:
A great exercise: A great exercise is to find around three examples of games that you like, which are all different. For example, choose a strategy, adventure, and puzzle game. Next, for each of them, write down, or draw and annotate, each of the UI elements, what their function is, and what happens when a user interacts with it. For example, if the user presses the next button, what happens? Do they go to a new screen, or does a pop-up appear? You don't have to do this for the entire game, but enough to get a...
