Flat Design And Indie Games

RH

Flat design is undoubtedly taking over our smart-phones, tablets and web but how does it fare in games?

I haven't used GamesSalad in a while but I'm considering trying to make a game over the next few months now that I have some free time. I'm hoping for simple yet striking graphics. What do you think of flat design? Does anyone have any inspiration (graphic style or colour palette)?

Bad wolf Guy

I love flat design, and I personally think it goes great in games. Check out letter press. That's what I am aiming to do. Make my own style of flat design. However I think it can only work in a small number of games. Not every game works good with flat design IMO. But after googling samples of flat designs I have my own. As long as its neat, simple and fun to play, i am going to love it.

matarua

Yep - Letterpress was a leader - Dots is a new one - a guy on here made 123 Boom using a GS template and made a nice flat version of it. There's some examples around the net like this...

http://designwoop.com/2013/02/flat-design-17-examples-of-flat-web-app-ui-designs/

http://designmodo.com/flat-free/

http://designmodo.com/flat-design-examples/

http://designmodo.com/flat-design-colors/

But if you want to be inspired in Skeumorphistic ways, Check out Mikael Eidenbergs work on dribble.

http://dribbble.com/meidenberg?page=3

And then the latest and greatest version of flat design trends, long shadows...

http://je.roon.io/long-shadow-design

http://www.designyourway.net/blog/inspiration/the-madness-that-comes-along-with-the-long-shadow-trend/

People tend to love or hate that one.

But from this you should have a lot of resource that shows you colours and styles for UI methods of clear UX and tonnes of inspiration. Hope this helps

Bad wolf Guy

@matarua I love dots, great inspiration, too bad too many people cloned it already. You can add my next game to that list sometime in the future as one of the leaders .

Great links btw

matarua

Awesome, all the best for that @123App

jonmulcahy

I made a game with flat design:
http://icebergapps.com/portfolio/must-keep-counting/

matarua

Nice one @jonmulcahy - buying it now

BoomshackBarry

Yeah I really like flat design, it looks great for a lot of games with the added benefit that it can be quite quick to create too.

I just hope that with it becoming really popular at the moment we don't end up over saturating the market and getting sick of it!

RH

@matarua thanks! will certainly have a look at those games.

@boomshackbarry I guess that just means designers have to do something a little more interesting with it!

jamies15-3

https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/velox/id608065628?mt=8