In a number of titles, slick and easy menu navigation is critical. Minecraft is one of those games reliant on a clean and responsive user interface. While its menus have undergone multiple revisions over the years, Mojang is looking to improve the overall design once again, this time with the assistance of the community. This redesign will apply to all the Bedrock Engine based platforms including the Nintendo Switch version of the game.
Mojang would like to know how the community wants the game menus in Minecraft to be updated:
What would you like to see from an updated Minecraft menu? There may be things you want to make easier? Or maybe there’s a way the menus could be better for your device? Or maybe you want to add something entirely new to the main menu or create world screen? Or maybe just a button that makes a pig squealing noise when you press it? (all games should have that, really).
Whatever your ideas are, we'd love to see them!
In order to find out what changes the Minecraft community wants to see in the game’s menus, Mojang has released four Paper Prototype Kits covering console, desktop, tablet, and phone - allowing fans to create their own menu designs for their respective versions of the game. You can download the paper kits via the links on the official blog page and then share your work on the official Minecraft Discord Channel.
Do you own Minecraft on Switch? Would you like to see improved menus and UI? Tell us below.
[source minecraft.net]
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Here's what I don't want:
Take it back to the Wetrix menu:
For goodness sake just hire a UI designer! You have so much money!
@Ogbert But but... It's the age of extensive social media and whatnot. People will feel left out if they can't have a say in how things go with their fav game these days.
That said, community input isn't actually a bad thing, but has the risk of backfiring if the developer's final decision clashes with (poor) ideas part of the community wanted. Still, people going through those PDF's might learn about how complex and thoughtful designing a 'simple' menu screen can be.
@TF-Warrior
If I may ask, what don't you like about that? I personally find it appealing, but I'd be happy to hear you out.
@_aitchFactor Not him but it's cluttered, it's anti-ocd, everything's shaped weirdly and doesn't mesh together , and single player content is hidden behind a sub-menu within a sub-menu instead of on the main root menu.
Maybe we could all build our own UI and menu out of blocks? A game within a game....
@Devann @_aitchFactor It is aesthetically appealling but is super annoying to navigate through which is supposed to be the purpose of a good ui design
I would suggest a change of type fonts to a normal one (arial, calibri, Century Gothic, Times new roman etc.).
@Cosats No way! That would totally ruin the whole minecraft feel
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