Bonus update: Skill screen.

So, it looks like I got more done today than I expected.

The skill learning screen is way better now.  Here's a before and after shot:

Before

After

First, I removed the skill costs from the section where you select the skills, because the costs took up a lot of horizontal space and didn't provide much value. The numbers and colored circles and stuff were just visually noisy and contributed to a feeling of overwhelmedness. (Just so you know, in the first screenshot, the 1/1 indicates the skill is usable once per day, and the 10MP means it costs 10 MP to use. The colored circles are icons signalling uses per battle and MP cost, respectively. This is not always important for the player to know, and if it were, it could be communicated through the help text above, which, as you can see, it is.)

Second, I nuked the gold part of the window and replaced it with something showing you how much skill powder and other skill items you have. (In Yanfly's original script, this was a place to purchase skills using gold, but in this game, you don't use gold to buy skills, you use skill powder and similar items.)

Third, I received some feedback that the way the needed number of items in the first screen was presented was confusing. Green text notwithstanding, when somebody saw they needed 24/10 skill powder to learn a skill, they thought that they needed 24 and only had 10. In fact, if the players saw two numbers separated by a slash, and one was higher than the other, they just sort of assumed, regardless of the placement, that they didn't have enough of the needed item. So, I made the first number "cap out" at the number needed. In the second screenshot, you'll see that the player has 10/10 of the skill powder needed to learn the skill. The player actually has 24 skill powder, as seen in the little box below the cost screen, but 10/10 makes it very obvious that you can learn the skill.

Gonna send this entry into my thesis advisor for some feedback.