Change – Weapon Icons

One design aspect of my application which I have decided to change is the icons of the weapons in the weapons/items menu set.

 

I felt that the detailed pictures draws users attention away from the map which is the central focus of the playing screen. To replace these, I have decided to use cartoon, style icons of the weapons to replace those in the screen-shot above. These I feel will better suit the game as no aspects of the screen appear to be realistic (e.g. like the map; it is not a real bird’s eye view). The icons I will use are shown below:

 

 

Images like these are used in many games, and what they become is a symbol to the real weapons which the users become familiar with. So in time, when they see these images, they will know what they represent.