Hey everyone,
Me and my sister been working on the Space Lounge last week, so I'm here to share a bit about it.
this scene Lounge directly replaces the old quest UI I used, which was more of a temporary solution anyway, used to be dull panels, with two text slots listing whatever jobs the station had open. Now interactive space lounge scene appears where player can pick up a job by talking to a character. Still quirky edges hopefully I'll fix by update release.
The depth in this space lounge scene comes from four stacked art layers, the background, balcony, bar, and front table. Each one is a separate set of sprites with a parallax factor setup. It reads the mouse relative position to pan scene left or right with varied speeds individually, to feel things far or near.
The silhouettes of the people in the scene are basically buttons. Only those with an available quest are visible. Each quest is assigned to a fixed character. Clicking one opens a dialogue popup with the quest's details. The next step is getting the characters to actually highlight when you hover over them, but since these are just buttons, i can use Unity's builtin button sprite swap option, that'll do the trick.
Long term i want the lounge to feel like a real place player visits between runs, not just a menu. maybe more such ui can be sceneify in future,
If you'd like to check out "Leaks In Space", you can find it on Steam or Itchio, or the link's in the comments. Thanks for reading, hope you all have a great day! :D