Rethinking the interface

A huge part in the process of going live is to rethink the interface. The current web version has indeed been developed to test the gameplay, but is too crude and too obscure to be going live.

A way I like to proceed when building interfaces is building paper prototypes:

(as you can probably guess, interface design and drawing is not my forte ^^)

 Paper prototyping allows me:

• To draw each piece of the interface separately. If I wish to change something, I don't have to redo all my work, but can only change the part that is affected
• Allow me to play with the different pieces and see how to arrange them on the screen
• Allow for "live-testing", i.e. take a potential player, have them interact with the paper interface as they would with the digital one, and modify the pieces on the "screen" as they do things. 

The picture above represents a current idea for the interface. It will most likely change based on how the testing goes, but at least it gives me a foundation on which to start - I still have many things to understand as far as client interface coding and implementation goes :)