Making beautiful menu's

Solar2D General Questions/Discussion
#1

Are there any tutorials on making beautiful menus with custom graphics ?

I can’t find any and I would like to know how you guys make the menus ? Some suggestions ?

#2

check out the game FOLT, it has a ‘beautiful’ menu.

#3

here’s a couple of good sites… they don’t explain how the menus are made, but they show some varied examples of art styles and menus for mobile games. good for inspiration. 

http://mobilegamepatterns.com/

http://www.game-patterns.com/

then this is a fantastic site for 2d graphics for games:

http://2dgameartforprogrammers.blogspot.com/

lots of simple to follow tutorials on common components of games - shiny buttons and the like.

eg

http://2dgameartforprogrammers.blogspot.com/2013/06/quick-and-dirty-simple-effect-for-menu.html

#4

This site has some great GUI packs available:

https://www.gamedevmarket.net/category/gui

#5

check out the game FOLT, it has a ‘beautiful’ menu.

#6

here’s a couple of good sites… they don’t explain how the menus are made, but they show some varied examples of art styles and menus for mobile games. good for inspiration. 

http://mobilegamepatterns.com/

http://www.game-patterns.com/

then this is a fantastic site for 2d graphics for games:

http://2dgameartforprogrammers.blogspot.com/

lots of simple to follow tutorials on common components of games - shiny buttons and the like.

eg

http://2dgameartforprogrammers.blogspot.com/2013/06/quick-and-dirty-simple-effect-for-menu.html

#7

This site has some great GUI packs available:

https://www.gamedevmarket.net/category/gui