{"id":831,"date":"2010-08-27T11:48:45","date_gmt":"2010-08-27T11:48:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/?p=831"},"modified":"2010-08-27T18:19:37","modified_gmt":"2010-08-27T18:19:37","slug":"improving-the-deployment-screen-in-gratuitous-space-battles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/2010\/08\/27\/improving-the-deployment-screen-in-gratuitous-space-battles\/","title":{"rendered":"Improving the deployment screen in Gratuitous Space Battles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I found this really annoying when playtesting the campaign, and I know people have asked for it before. I want to know if this is an improvement, before I release it in a patch. People were getting vexed because they often had 5 or 6 or 20 cruiser designs of the same race (for example) and the silhouette icons were no help in picking them, so they have to use mouseover tooltips to pick the right one, which is slow. So i have experimented with adding the (cropped) name of the design to the UI: (Please click to enlarge)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Old:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/blog\/oldpicker.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/blog\/oldpicker_s.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>New:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/blog\/newpicker.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/blog\/newpicker_s.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you play GSB a lot, you might think &#8220;yes, I need this!&#8221;, but I&#8217;d like to know if you think it looks a bit cluttered, or messy, from the point of view of someone just trying the demo for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>Edit: I tried it with a smaller font. Better? or too small?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Newer!:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/blog\/newpicker2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/blog\/newpicker2_s.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found this really annoying when playtesting the campaign, and I know people have asked for it before. I want to know if this is an improvement, before I release it in a patch. People were getting vexed because they often had 5 or 6 or 20 cruiser designs of the same race (for example)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-right\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Continue Reading&#8230; Improving the deployment screen in Gratuitous Space Battles<\/span><a class=\"btn btn-secondary continue-reading\" href=\"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/2010\/08\/27\/improving-the-deployment-screen-in-gratuitous-space-battles\/\">Continue Reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-game-design","category-gratuitous-space-battles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=831"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":833,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831\/revisions\/833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}