Salty's Lair 3.0 Sneak Peek :0

[Salty]

   I've been through about 80 iterations of Salty 3.0, so I feel like it's more like v3.8.2, but I think I've finally settled on a design. I don't want to talk about how many hours I have poured into the interface design alone on my wife's iPad, not to mention days of toiling over the CSS and overall design. I might write up an article on the creative process of it all some day, but for now, here's a sneak peek of what the home page looks like. It's chock full of CSS animations, techno-babble Y2K floating/glowing bits, and so much mid-2000s Flash nostalgia! I hope y'all like what you see so far. 

The scanlines look a bit goofy in the preview image, so if you wanna see it in HD then right-click and open the image in a new tab.



My goal is to have the new design launched a WEEK from today. Unfortunately I have not made it responsive yet, which I know a lot of you despise, but give me a break! This is a mid-2000s callback, we didn't have phones back then.  Seriously, though, I really am gonna make a mobile version within the coming months. That's just a royal pain, and I'm not quite prepared yet. 

Cheers to y'all 

[cyberfun1 (dizz)]

Wooooahhh i love the design! It's super duper cool! It's kinda like the pip-boy from fallout

[krish]

Looking awesome! I have a soft spot for layouts with custom drawn assets.

[Salty]

Wooooahhh i love the design! It's super duper cool! It's kinda like the pip-boy from fallout

I think I definitely subconsciously took some inspiration from Fallout. FO 1/2 are forever ingrained in my childhood brain!

Looking awesome! I have a soft spot for layouts with custom drawn assets.

Me too! That's why I really tried extra hard on this one. I don't really like drawing honestly, but feeling someone else's assets for the main interface just felt wrong. I seriously redrew it like 5 or 6 times over the course of 3/4 months 

[J. Soda]

That's so so cool!!! I love the interface look and all the green goop, love me some green goop :) I'll make sure to keep an eye out for your site!

[Kalka]

Woooooow !! Incredible !!

I love the art style and color choice ! The y2k flash games era is easy to recognize, I'm impressed ! Keep going