inglorious

on video game UI & UX

Tag: CCP

Does UI need to be clutter?

This is the beautiful trailer for EvE Onlines newest expansion, Apocrypha. Beautiful dosen’t really describe it. Kotaku’s Mike Fahey makes an interesting comment in his writeup that raised an eyebrow: What the trailer most notably does not show is the first lonely hours spent wandering around the expansive universe, with nothing but the generally unhelpful help [...]

Improvements to EvE Online’s UX?

Little late to the game on this one, but I found this EvE Online Dev Blog post from the 18th that detailed some of the changes coming to EvE Online’s character creation experience. Simplification of the UI to benefit new users? How very… un… game… like. From the MMO that has long been considered one of [...]