I'm still plugging away at the How To Make an RPG book and I'm currently doing some of the menus related to combat. Before I get into combat the classes for the combatants need designing and the data for all the party members and monster needs writing. A lot of that's done now, I'm just hooking it into the menus like you see above. The portraits are placeholder at the moment once I've completed the demo for this chapter I'll have some art made.
The immediate next step is making the status screen work. Then probably the equipment screen. RPGs have a lot of UI!