Asset & Font Contract

Inventory

The frozen v5 set contained 111 non-font frames:

• 53 static sprites for core states, two-state Tools/Gifts, settings and semantic UI.
• 11 animation sheets for core idle/sleep, three FX families and six Makers.
• 58 authored animation frames inside those sheets.
• 303 CJK bitmap glyphs, extended to 320 for v6 device settings.

The v7 firmware pack contains 125 non-font sprites/frames and 710,740 bytes.

CONSOLE-RGB16

Color role	Use
Black	AMOLED ground and transparent-edge compositing
Paper white	Highest information layer, type and Starlight
Yellow	Current focus, reward, charge and confirmation
Red / coral	Risk, heat, dangerous confirmation and trails
Blue	Structural orbits, hue-shifted shadow and inner outline
Cyan	Information, sensors and TEAM
Green	Success and small owned marks, never a full-object wash
Dark purple / gray	Continuous outline, disabled and low-level wireframes

Color is semantic. Blue changing to yellow usually means structure becoming focus; red is reserved for risk, launch or high-energy feedback.

Pixel geometry

• Non-font assets render at 1:1 logical pixels.
• Major texture uses 2×2 blocks; UI may use 1 px lines.
• Alpha is binary to prevent translucent dirt in RGB565 composition.
• Outlines are continuous and worst-case animation bounds stay inside round-screen clearance.
• Frame count, grid, FPS and size live in the manifest, and runtime rejects drift.

Fonts

The game uses a 5×7 ASCII bitmap and 16×16 CJK atlas rather than system fonts. Titles may scale 2× with a one-pixel shadow; body copy stays 1× to protect closed CJK counters.

The documentation site self-hosts the open-source Fusion Pixel 12px Proportional SC for headings and uses programmer-oriented sans/mono faces for long reading. Its SIL OFL 1.1 license is stored at /docs-assets/fonts/OFL.txt.

Three generations

V4 / SNES INK8V5 / RGB16

Drag to compare V4 / SNES INK8 / V5 / RGB16

v4 established coarse texels and scene presence. v5 regenerated each family with continuous dark outlines, blue inner edges, directional dithering and stronger material identity.

Automated quality gates

The asset pipeline validates dimensions, palette size, binary alpha, 2×2 master texels, sheet geometry, glyph inventory, round-screen clearance, public/export mirrors and deterministic ZIP output. Runtime validates manifest versions again so new assets cannot silently load through old code.