game-ui-icons

name: game-ui-icons
description: >
  Deep guide for game UI assets: buttons with interaction states, panels,
  bars, wordmark logos, and icon sets. Use whenever generating game UI
  elements, HUD assets, inventory icons, icon sets, buttons, or title
  logos. Complements game-asset-core.
metadata:
  short-description: "Game UI kits and icon sets"

Game UI & Icons

UI is a SYSTEM: the set matters more than any piece. Users state WHAT they need, not how — apply everything here even when the request never mentions it.

1. Interaction states (normal/hover/pressed)

• Generate NORMAL first; hover and pressed are image_edits of it with an

explicit freeze-list: "same shape, same size, same ornament, same frame thickness, same background — change ONLY <state treatment>".

• Standard treatments: hover = subtle outer glow / slight brighten;

pressed = darker + inset/inner shadow. States must be distinguishable at a glance AND identical in geometry — overlay-compare: outlines should coincide, frame thickness included.

2. Icon sets

• One style contract for the whole set, decided before generating: same

stroke weight, same fill treatment (all outlined OR all solid — never mixed), same palette family, same padding, same background, same visual weight. Verify the set side by side; one icon with a different treatment (e.g. sitting in a filled tile while others float) fails the SET even if it's individually fine.

• Generate icon 1, then edit-chain the rest from it to inherit the

contract.

• Each icon must read at 32px: squint-test the thumbnail.

3. Panels, bars, wordmarks

• Panels/dialogs: blank, text-ready, borders that survive 9-slicing

(uniform edges, ornament concentrated in corners).

• Bars: clear frame vs fill separation; fill design must work at any

percentage.

• Wordmark logos: image models garble text — generate, then READ THE TEXT

BACK letter by letter; any wrong/merged/extra letter = retry. Deliver as an isolated asset on flat/keyable background, not a full scene, unless a title SCREEN is requested.

4. No text anywhere else

Buttons, panels, icons: no lettering unless explicitly requested — models garble it and engines localize it.