Random thought. Maybe it makes sense to do something with the color of the text in the (pause) menu. it is already black on a gray translucent background, and quite often this happens even on a dark background. So it is quite difficult to see. Maybe some kind of contrasting outline in the letters?
The same can be said about the settings: dark red text with a black shadow, dark gray text with a black shadow.
Its meant to be dark, and it took me forever to get that to even be somewhat visible on mobile...if you mean the text on the left side when you pause, those are actually images--and we designed alot around keeping them there. I've done all i'm doing for the text...theres really no more space for options and its actually becoming so overkill nobody will even want to deal with them...if people can't see it with lighter text even on mobile and like six different fonts, they need to see an eye doctor not a programmer.
Any contrasting outlines on the actual options screens makes it look horrible (might as well use high contrast text, which is an option), I honestly regret even adding outline color to the options at all because its terribly drawn except for black or white.
If you can come up with a better color scheme using the font color options in HTML color codes that fits a horror themed game and makes it easier to see, i'll be more than happy to consider a swap...but the main problem is if it looks good on Desktop it usually cant be seen on mobile. I honestly gave up on the concept entirely because it has the translucent background. The only way to make the text look right on both would be images, and i'm terrible in any form of art program...I actually made the main menu ones using an old visual basic program I had lying around by modifying it
You now literally have every possible method to modify the text that I would have at my disposal yourself...if you feel like tweaking colors for an hour in the text / background color options, outline thickness and direction etc etc and come up with a good horror theme font and/or background color, not only will I consider using it but i'd be grateful for it. I dont have that kind of patience.
If users ended up interested in doing this I'd just let them create their own theme files at this point
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The main problem vic...being real, is that when you pause the menu overlays whatever scene your at in the game--its absolutely impossible to tell which type of background its going to have. I HAVE considered adding a black image to the options screen so you can't see the game when you pause...but really thats about the only thing I can see being any help.
just because we butchered it doesn't make it the proper term.
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