A long overdue post and a look at the new battle UI

Our programmer and I have been hard at work on a UI design for the ZVN's battle system. While we're still trying to figure out some of the mechanics, we felt the design we had before wasn't nearly good enough, even as incomplete as it was at the time. So we've overhauled it from this:

to this

While its not quite finalized, many of the changes have already been implemented into the build.
Some differences are:

• Your partner is always on screen during battles. In the finalized design they will each have a unique battle sprite that faces their enemies. The default Saria sprite above is a placeholder for now.
• We've included a banner that is present both in and out of fights. It includes Link's health, magic, status, and current rupee/item count. As well as buttons that allow you to talk to your partner at any time, a partner screen (that shows a brief bio, acquired skills and affection level), inventory screen, and young Link's map.
• The leaf icon is unique to the player's location. Depending on where you are, it will change both in text and graphic. Its pretty vague in this example, but will include more areas soon.
• More enemies on the screen. While the deku scrub girl is included here as an example, most monster girls will be fought alone.
• Much prettier action icons.
• And finally, while you can't see it in the example, we've created attack, hit, and special effect animations that play out during battles.