Art stylesHand-drawnHigh contrast
Manuscript illustration
People, buildings, text and ornament belong to a shared page. Flat pictorial space and page structure work together.
Traits
- Use contours and flat color fields
- Ornament leaves room for reading
- Keep functional text legible
Play that fits
Useful for dialogue, deduction, turn-based strategy and chapter-based adventures with page-like information hierarchy.
Reference games
Make a coherent game art set
Suggested asset specification
- Character: profile figures and joint pieces
- Scene: flat architecture and margins
- UI: page frames and clear body text
Motion and feedback
Small articulated motions and holds bring life; page transitions must spare important choices.
Main production effort
Ornament, lettering, articulated figures and multilingual layout require coordinated design.
Start with this small scene
Put a courier, bridge, workshop and three delivery cards on one page with a clear text region.
Simplify for a smaller budget
Reuse one border and two figure poses, keeping functional text in a readable typeface.
What to check
Do long translations collide with ornament, and can figures and choices be read together on a phone?
Take the art specification
Includes localized visual rules, asset suggestions, scope and sources. This is a specification; assets still need production for your project.
Art specification v1 · Original editorial and examples · Reference-game assets not included
Prompt examples
Manuscript illustration. Use contours and flat color fields. Ornament leaves room for reading. Keep functional text legible. Put a courier, bridge, workshop and three delivery cards on one page with a clear text region.
Manuscript illustration. Character: profile figures and joint pieces|Scene: flat architecture and margins|UI: page frames and clear body text. Small articulated motions and holds bring life; page transitions must spare important choices.. Do long translations collide with ornament, and can figures and choices be read together on a phone?
Common pitfall
Medieval buildings alone do not make a manuscript; page, text and image must form a system.
Observations and sources
Cases refer to public documentation. Developers and community wikis are credited separately; document review is not a claim of hands-on testing.
- Pentiment
Compare figures, lettering and print language alongside the art director's account, without reducing the game to one historical school.
- Inkulinati
Battles are organized on pages, with ornament and ink shaping the space.
Brief for the studio
Opens the AI studio with the brief below in the input. You can edit it. Nothing starts automatically.
Make a single-screen delivery game: click destinations, deliver three parcels, then finish or restart. Use Manuscript illustration. Put a courier, bridge, workshop and three delivery cards on one page with a clear text region.
Related entries
Hand-drawn animated 2D
Consistent character shapes, continuous poses and restrained shadows create drawn-animation readability while scenery supports the action.
Antique print and engraving
Fine hatching, open paper and historical print composition evoke illustrated books. Print-like visuals do not imply a physical printing process.
Black-figure pottery graphics
Terracotta grounds, dark profile figures and ornamental bands evoke ancient Greek pottery. This is a specific graphic language rather than a label for all ancient settings.
Covers are original AI-generated style illustrations. Game names reference publicly visible design choices and remain the property of their owners. This atlas does not supply screenshots or assets from those games. Prompts and combinations are original drafts for new games.