When people bring up gaming in social conversations, the first things people bring up are the characters and the stories that ...

Since launch many players have talked about the unintuitive Modern Warfare 2 UI design, and how it makes little to no sense for a Call of Duty game. Presented like some sort of streaming service ...

Edd Coates is founder of Game UI Database. Game UI designers use references to iterate on existing design patterns and provide players familiar, intuitive experiences. This allows us to onboard them ...

The Game UI Database, created by senior UI artist Edd Coates, is a repository that highlights the different approaches to user interface design in games.

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This design style has influenced games so much that recent releases like The Last of Us Part 2, God of War, and Breath of the Wild all have very similar looking, and not very interesting, UI design.