Original spirit. A little more ink.
B is the chosen direction. The speaker’s color now runs through the name, side stripe and hand-inked primary button.
Direction B · refined
Interactive visual study
Try Norm and Rook in the conversation menu to see the colors change. Move across the scene for parallax. “Show all four” brings back the earlier alternatives.
A tankful,
then home.
The fuel icon and bar take the timer’s place. As the tank empties, the instruments settle away and a small Going home follows the camera lift.
The lift below is captured from the current game. The new text arrives with one soft bounce, then fades into the neighborhood.
Ready to preview.
The replay is shortened for review. Tank size, fuel use and refuelling are open design questions.
Original reference & what this study preserves
The layers that gave it life
In Godot, Norm drifted horizontally and vertically on his own rhythm. The panel moved more slowly, and Norm received a small share of the camera’s sway. His name was green, his expression changed between existing frames, and his entrance had a small overshoot.
The original panel inherited Godot’s theme: charcoal at 60% opacity, with fully opaque light text. The scene also used a 30% black world dimmer. The image alongside is a new render of those original dialogue scenes on a plain background, not a screenshot of a complete old play session.
These studies restore independent motion, enlarge the original transparent character art, and test dark backgrounds. Text stays fully opaque. The current side stripe, button weight and phone navigation remain recognizable.
Pause motion also pauses pose changes. A reduced-motion preference starts the study still and uses a short fade for the drive home.
TutorialDialogue.gd · FloatingNorm.gd · NormPortrait.gd · camera_controller.gd · tutorial_dialogue.tscn · floating_norm.tscn. Current branch: feat/curb-reaction-polish, 5589b04.
Study-only translations and parallax are bounded around a fixed position. Fuel is a presentation prototype, with no selected consumption or economy rules.