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Here’s a quick preview of the new menus for Project Viper.

First up is the escape menu. There’s a couple of ways to bypass this, either with the keyboard or mouse but it’s a good place to start.

You can get back to this menu at any time by clicking the home button at the top left. You could also click the ‘x’ button at the top right to close the menu. Click the image to see the full size version.

This is the active quest list. I had to blur out my placeholder text because it’s really bad and the scrollbar grabber still needs a graphic to replace the blue circle.

At the top you’ll see the path that you’ve taken to get to this menu. It’s a good way to see where you are but you can also click any of the buttons to go back to that menu. So in this screen clicking on ‘journal’ will take you back to the main journal page.

I’m looking forward to seeing how useful this is in the final game. I may end up never using it or I may use it a lot.

This is what I’m calling a popper. A popper is a smaller menu that will appear in the middle of the screen. This one is for choosing an item to use or give to somebody. Don’t worry, there won’t be that much scrolling involved. The only things that will be in this list are items that you can use or give away.

And finally, here is the new quest popper. The quest name is just a placeholder right now. Dawn’s Light had a small box pop up each time you got a quest but I wanted to do more with quests this time. You can see the quest name, the task name and the rewards.

Each quest is made up of 1 or more tasks. After you complete a full quest (all tasks) you’ll get a reward. Each dungeon will be a single quest made up of several tasks. The plan is to make it a bigger deal when you complete a quest. The rewards will help with that as well.

I’m keeping the rewards a mystery until you get them to make it more exciting. Sometimes you get some money, sometimes some bonus xp and if you’re really lucky, you’ll get a mystery item. The mystery item will always be something good, not just a potion.

Menu preview end. So what do you think?