The Game UI Bible - Lost in Cult

Lost in Cult is publishing a 400+ page book diving deep into video game UI by Edd Coates, the brain behind the excellent Game UI Database. It looks pretty darn slick and like the perfect compliment to Arcade Game Typography: The Art of Pixel Type by Toshi Omigari. In the first half of The Game UI Bible, Coates discusses the foundations of UI and UX design. This section begins in the earliest days of PC, console, and arcade gaming and travels through to the modern day to track continuity and change in the fields’ key tenets as luminary designers elaborated on – and sometimes challenged – them. In The Game UI Bible’s second half, Coates speaks directly to those luminaries. Across a series of case studies, Coates is in conversation with the key UI and UX designers who brought benchmark games to life, from God of War and Half-Life: Alyx to Inscryption and Monument Valley. These interviews are surrounded by essays on topics ranging from Nintendo’s Switch branding to the relationship…