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Jonathan does UI
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Games UI artist and cat enjoyer from New Zealand. You can check my stuff here: https://jonathancaridia.com
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Jonathan does UI @jcaridia.bsky.social · Jun 26
Oh hey that's me! Looking forward to sharing some UI Knowledge and meeting a more northerly section of the NZ games scene. Should be fun!
aucklandmakesgames.bsky.social Auckland Makes Games 🎮 @aucklandmakesgames.bsky.social · May 28
UI is an underestimated way to enrich your game's experience. Get inspired as @jcaridia.bsky.social gushes over some kick-ass UI, enlightened as he breaks down what makes them so appealing, and empowered with tools and approaches to give your own project a metaphorical varsity jacket & mirrorshades.
Decorative banner with a photo of Jonathan Caridia with the talk title, "Kickflip Buttons: Lessons from Cool UI". The wireframe logo on the bottom right says Wireframe 19 July 2025 wireframeconf.com
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arvy.bsky.social
lol
kzxcellent.live KZ @kzxcellent.live · 3d
I read a thread about games with terrible UI earlier and this video has been destroying me all day.
November 11, 2025 at 9:53 AM
jcaridia.bsky.social
Guerilla minelayer Agama is hot off the presses for the Hearth-7 homebrew project! Enjoyed doing all the little details for this one.

#lancerRPG #Lancer #mech
A bipedal digitigrade mecha, with a solid triangular torso and spindly 3-jointed arms. One arm holds a wood-finish bolt-action pistol over its head, and the other has a long curved metal board strapped to it, containing a variety of mines ready to deploy. The mines have messages scratched into them: "From: HRF (heart)", SURPRISE!, and an owo face. It has a large roll cage over its torso-mounted cockpit with rounded windshield. Graffiti on it reads "If you can read this, say your prayers!!" Rope is slung over its shoulder, tied to a variety of explosive devices. Its top edge is covered in vibrant plants, possibly as camouflage. On one shoulder, a mine with robotic legs and antennae perches. Its right side is roughly painted red, and on the right shoulder is scrawled "Union Strong", and Moria in hand graffiti style. Embedded in the left side of the torso is a deep chute with studded cylindrical mulchers at the bottom, leading to complex machinery with a delivery chute at the bottom, like a vending machine. Inside the chute is an arrow pointing down accompanied by the text "TSC + Fasc" and on the outside is scratched "Feed Me". Below this on the lower left thigh is scratched "ACAB - All Corps Are Bastards". Text at the bottom reads HRF "Agama" Guerilla - Question Every Step Scurrier Modifications, Liberator Pistol, High Explosive Charges Art: Jonathan Caridia
November 9, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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fitivarka.bsky.social
October 3, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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alaflora.art
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tamlin.bsky.social gramlins @tamlin.bsky.social · 21d
is this @alaflora.art‘s handiwork in the opening for fionna and cake s2e1 omg…
October 23, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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tadashidaiba.bsky.social
October 2, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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tadashidaiba.bsky.social
September 21, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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blacktabbygames.com
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September 21, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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planetapolilla.bsky.social
Art of TRESPASSER 2
September 10, 2025 at 1:02 PM
jcaridia.bsky.social
The latest Hearth-7 #LancerRPG #mech off the rank, the Hellbender! Put together from scrap and hooked up to too many reactors, the Hellbender loads itself with heat to defend itself and its allies.
A large, squat, hunchback mech in an upright quad-leg configuration, clearly made from mismatched, damaged parts and patched-on armour plates, and covered in dirt, rust and grime. It has one large arm on one side ending in an armoured fist with two small flames atop it, and on the other it has 2 mismatched arms, one holding a sledgehammer with ends glowing with heat, and the other attached to a large shield resembling a bent car radiator. Its top and chest armour is made of a huge bucket scoop from a digger, cut diagonally to reveal its horned head and a series of glowing pipes and exposed reactors. Around its waist are a series of mismatched vents radiating steam. Its four thick legs are also mismatched, with the two most visible in front ending in a shoe-like foot and a flat, circular piston-suspended platform with 4 toes arranged evenly around it. Both are covered in patched bare metal armour plates. It also is decorated with graffiti, consisting of the symbol of the Hearth Revolutionary Forces (a large red bird) on the chest armour, and the above the head the slogan "Burn bright the fires of liberty". There is a large red Anarchy symbol on one thigh. Text at the bottom of the image reads: HRF Hellbender, Heat Based Tanking. Ash Overflow Vents, Intervention Tempering, Superheated Sledgehammer. Art: Jonathan Caridia. LANCER: The Mech RPG
September 11, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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snarferman.bsky.social
we are so back #lancerrpg
A Kabuki theater themed Orchis. A colorful Oleander. A Bagger themed Barbarossa. A weird unicorn Gorgon.
August 20, 2025 at 5:31 PM
jcaridia.bsky.social
Look at this dark scifi UI Solbrand 😯 So flavourful! m.youtube.com/watch?v=bJYa...
Solbrand — Announce Trailer
YouTube video by Dead People Dreaming
m.youtube.com
September 3, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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orbitaldropkick.bsky.social
KILL SIX BILLION DEMONS, WHEEL SMASHING LORD - ARIHORR, THE DEAD PILED UPON THE DEAD killsixbilliondemons.com
August 28, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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tadashidaiba.bsky.social
August 23, 2025 at 9:00 PM
jcaridia.bsky.social
Slaying some princesses tonight except more like getting slain by some princesses, and having a grand old time! Really enjoying the format and content. Thanks for making me feel things @blacktabbygames.com
August 8, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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eddcoates.bsky.social
I know a lot of people have been waiting for this one… Metaphor: ReFantazio has been added to the Game UI Database! One of the most eye-catching interfaces of recent times.
www.gameuidatabase.com/gameData.php...

This also marks another huge milestone for the site: 1500 Games!
2k by Xmas? Lets gooo!
August 8, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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budger.bsky.social
Finally had some time for personal work, feels good.

Artstation with some more WIP: www.artstation.com/artwork/WXvZzv
August 6, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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nephelomancer.bsky.social
🫲🏽✋🏽I have a thing for hand prisons it seems✋🏽🫱🏽
Commission for Cassandra Aponte Cover art for SPIRITBOX Fan portrait of Yorda Virtue for MCDM
July 30, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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doctorears.bsky.social
I'm not that into fighting games, but I am REALLY appreciating the UI design for Marvel Tōkon Fighting Souls. Bringing in the bristol board drawing guides / pencils template in the character select screen is so good.
A screenshot of the character select screen for Marvel Tōkon Fighting Souls. It depicts Captain American and Ms. Marvel in a comic/anime aesthetic. The borders surrounding each character look like a page template for comic illustration.
July 23, 2025 at 1:10 AM
jcaridia.bsky.social
Very cool Microsoft full screen banner to let me know my OS is being deprecated with no recourse. Good to know. Time to start looking into Linux distros and app compatibility I guess
July 23, 2025 at 6:35 AM
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detfantasia.bsky.social
Ocean level breakdown 🌊
Never posted this on Bluesky so here it is o/
#pixelart #indiedev #GameMaker
April 16, 2025 at 8:10 PM
jcaridia.bsky.social
Ah I forgot to tag this #mech #lancer #lancerRPG so lancer peeps check it :)
jcaridia.bsky.social Jonathan does UI @jcaridia.bsky.social · Jul 23
Another Hearth-7 mech down - this time the Jiraiya, a Size 1/2 evasive menace with tools to take down and even climb larger targets. The camo cloak was a challenge but came out real nice in the end I think!
A scratched and patched up ninja-looking mech. Parts are mismatched colours as though replaced with different coloured sources, like a cheap panel beating job. There is duct tape wrapped around its left thigh and calf. Its right arm contains a thin spiked pile driver and ends in a clawed hand, and its left holds a long, slightly curved sword behind its back with black blink energy bubbling off it. It's wearing a hooded cloak which makes its body invisible, with a rainbow iridescent sheen. The sword is distorted and visible through it. It has graffiti in places - HRF sprayed on the right thigh, HARP with 3 harps crossed out in red on the shoulder, BANGARANG scratched into the left upper arm, and "AGI ❤" marked on the lower right arm. Text below the mech reads: HRF "Jiraiya", Wraith in Shadow. Stilletto, Shadow Clone, Blink Sword, Flash Step. Art: Jonathan Caridia Same as other image but against a dark background instead of white, to show off the camo cloak's adaption to the background, and with no text.
July 23, 2025 at 12:12 AM
jcaridia.bsky.social
Another Hearth-7 mech down - this time the Jiraiya, a Size 1/2 evasive menace with tools to take down and even climb larger targets. The camo cloak was a challenge but came out real nice in the end I think!
A scratched and patched up ninja-looking mech. Parts are mismatched colours as though replaced with different coloured sources, like a cheap panel beating job. There is duct tape wrapped around its left thigh and calf. Its right arm contains a thin spiked pile driver and ends in a clawed hand, and its left holds a long, slightly curved sword behind its back with black blink energy bubbling off it. It's wearing a hooded cloak which makes its body invisible, with a rainbow iridescent sheen. The sword is distorted and visible through it. It has graffiti in places - HRF sprayed on the right thigh, HARP with 3 harps crossed out in red on the shoulder, BANGARANG scratched into the left upper arm, and "AGI ❤" marked on the lower right arm. Text below the mech reads: HRF "Jiraiya", Wraith in Shadow. Stilletto, Shadow Clone, Blink Sword, Flash Step. Art: Jonathan Caridia Same as other image but against a dark background instead of white, to show off the camo cloak's adaption to the background, and with no text.
July 23, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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mixolumia.com
i basically never go to ministop but i had a hankering for soft serve and they give you an edible spoon???
Soft serve in a cone with a spoon made of cone material
July 6, 2025 at 5:57 AM
jcaridia.bsky.social
Oh hey that's me! Looking forward to sharing some UI Knowledge and meeting a more northerly section of the NZ games scene. Should be fun!
aucklandmakesgames.bsky.social Auckland Makes Games 🎮 @aucklandmakesgames.bsky.social · May 28
UI is an underestimated way to enrich your game's experience. Get inspired as @jcaridia.bsky.social gushes over some kick-ass UI, enlightened as he breaks down what makes them so appealing, and empowered with tools and approaches to give your own project a metaphorical varsity jacket & mirrorshades.
Decorative banner with a photo of Jonathan Caridia with the talk title, "Kickflip Buttons: Lessons from Cool UI". The wireframe logo on the bottom right says Wireframe 19 July 2025 wireframeconf.com
June 26, 2025 at 6:15 AM