As everyone else, I have too many hobbies. This page is (for now) exclusively about one of them.
I am writing a web-based Game Aid for Steve Jackson Games to design in edition 2.5 (classic) Car Wars. It is a quite hard problem if you are trying to support everything.
I write this because I need feedback on the user interface. If you believe you have good taste, please help! :-) The discussion is best kept here.
Here is the normal look of the page when a car is being edited. Here is when the user asked for more details. The start of the pages (armor and wheel spec) is a mockup, the rest is what my code generates.
My goal here is to create a usable UI and get feedback before putting a lot of hours into writing the perfect UI -- that will be version two (or three) and preferably written by someone else! For now, my specific questions are:
On the ToDo now are Ajax support and moving the chassis data to where the armor points are specified.
I have support for most stuff to design cars but my todo list still has quite a few points, most are small though. I have only worked on the UI since I asked this.
The code is written so the UI is a layer unto itself, so it can be worked on independently of the design engine.
It will be easy to add support for Trikes, MCs and oversized vehicles. (I ignore e.g. boats and aircraft for now.) Any suggestions for how to handle the UIs for these? Especially for oversized vehicles.