Player Heads Up Display (HUD)

Overview

The player heads up display (HUD) refers to the player information displayed in the top left of the screen during the main game (does not appear in menu screens). The elements included in the HUD are:

• Current planet display
• Player health bar
• Player dodge status
• Current player lives
• Current weapon ammunition

HUD Assets

Numerous assets were created (by Damian Bellew using Piskel) for the HUD. These include:

• HUD element frames

• HUD element fills

HUD Actions

Planet Display

The current planet is displayed in the top left of the screen. The UI includes the associated planet image used in the space-map screen. Below that in the frame, the name of the planet is displayed

Health Bar

The health bar is the top element of the player stats section of the HUD. It is a green bar (green is intuitively indicative of health) which resizes depending on the health of the player. To the right, the numerical value of player health is displayed.

Dodge Bar

The dodge bar is a blue bar which indicates the availability of the dodge move. When available, the bar is full, and a "Ready!" label is displayed. When unavailable, the bar displays a "refilling" animation, and there is not "Ready!" label.

Player Lives

Simply, the number of player lives is displayed as the number of hearts.

Current Weapon Ammunition

Within the current weapon ammunition HUD element, there are 3 pieces of information displayed to the user. First, is an image of the currently equipped weapon, next is the current ammunition of the equipped weapon, and finally is the total max ammunition of the equipped weapon.

UML Diagram

The UML diagram has been designed in accordance with PlayerStatsDisplay Class.