Four rules in a column: ROSE IS RED, VIOLET IS BLUE, FLAG IS WIN, BABA IS YOU
Baba Is You · HUD & Gameplay UI
Art style Hand-drawn & ink
About this game
Developer: Hempuli Oy · Publisher: Hempuli Oy · Platform: PC (Steam) · Art style: Hand-drawn & ink · Screen type: HUD & Gameplay UI
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What to study
Four sentences stand in a column like a poem - ROSE IS RED, VIOLET IS BLUE, FLAG IS WIN, BABA IS YOU - and the joke is structural: the first two rules only set colours, which makes them look decorative, but they occupy the same tile column as the two rules that decide the level, and every tile in the column can be pushed into a different row. Swap the RED and BLUE tiles' partners, or shove WIN down a row, and the poem rewrites what wins. This is Baba Is You's interface at its most legible: a rule set presented as a tidy aligned list, where alignment itself is the mechanic - rows are sentences, so anything stacked in a column is one push away from becoming a different sentence. The field around the column proves the top two rules are live, not flavour text: the roses really are red and the violets really are blue, drawn in exactly the colours their tiles declare. Frame at about 0:45 in the Release date trailer (Steam), manually extracted at 44.5s: the pipeline's scene-change pass emitted no frame for this level.
Patterns
How the screen is arranged.
Screen inventory
- a vertical stack of four complete rule sentences sharing one tile column layout: noun tiles at left, IS in white at centre, property tiles at right
- ROSE IS RED - red noun, red tile; the red rose sprites scattered across the field match it
- VIOLET IS BLUE - blue noun, blue tile; the small blue violet sprites match it
- FLAG IS WIN - yellow noun and tile; BABA IS YOU - magenta noun, purple tile
- the yellow flag standing to the right of the column and the white Baba sprite below it, with a short trail of motion dots behind Baba
- dark plum field filled only with red roses and blue violets - the two things the first two rules describe
Top 3 colors
#191122 81%#61405a 9%
Top three palette colors by share. The remaining colors make up the rest.
Source and credit
© Hempuli Oy, Baba Is You screenshot: Baba Is You Release date trailer video (Steam), shown for design study and commentary. PlayCraft is an unofficial fan project, not affiliated with or endorsed by Hempuli Oy.
Source tier 2 (publisher-released) · screenshot: Steam store page · Steam page
Source details
Fetched 2026-10-21. verified 2026-10-21: frame manually extracted at 44.5s from the pipeline-downloaded Release date trailer (Steam) and inspected at full resolution (1920x1080 native); all four rules fully legible (ROSE IS RED, VIOLET IS BLUE, FLAG IS WIN, BABA IS YOU), tile column aligned and settled, roses/violets/flag all readable; a short trail of small motion dots behind Baba is the game's normal movement effect; no trailer text or watermark overlays the frame
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