Hey! A few days ago we received a "confirmation" of something what caught my attention. I'm talking about the support of the client for devices with Android (here the post). Since this was thinking how the client can looks like on small devices, I decided to do some mockups and sketches. Of course i invite everybody to post their ideas, maybe developers can be inspired with our arts ;) .
Okay starting with the over wold, of course this game have a lot of menus and buttons, so its impossible fit this. With a lot of element hidden I designed something like this:
Now point by point:
Cursors for move our character, more than obvious we don't have a physical keyboard on our phone/tablet (excluding some exceptions), that mean adding the arrow keys on some corner its necessary. Also the function keys (accept/decline or Z/X).
The Menu replaced with icons, and indicators. Starting from letf: Social button, can open our social list / team roster. With the indicator of how many people is online. Next one is messages button, with indicator of whispers / new interactions. Of course can be linked with upcoming mailing feature. And the last button for popup menus, and the rest of settings, of course this is only an example, and more icons can be added on the screen, but of course more icons = less space on the screen.
The party bar of course with our pokemons, tapping on the pokemon open the summary window.
I forgot to put the hotkey bar in the image (lol), just imagine is here, fast access to the bag items etc.
Also about the chat, can't be displayed all the time, so the best solution i can think is a popup chat, tapping on the icon of messages, can looks like this:
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In this case i'm not sure where the keyboard can be displayed (but i'm going to redo the chat concept anyways).
In near future i'm going to add more images, and again I invite everybody for post their ideas here.