Journal, objects page: glyph slots still empty

About this game

Developer: Rundisc · Publisher: Focus Entertainment · Platform: PC (Steam) · Art style: Comic & cartoon · Screen type: Encyclopedia / Codex

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What to study

The journal in its hypothesis state. Every language in Chants of Sennaar is learned the same way: you see a glyph used in the world, you guess what it means, and the journal is where the guess lives until the game tests it. This page covers objects, four ink sketches, a key, a vase, a spiked oval mirror, a corked flask, and beside each drawing an empty dotted circle, the slot where that thing's glyph will go. Nothing is filled in yet, and the emptiness is the interface: the dotted circles are a to-do list drawn as absence, four nouns the player has met but cannot yet say. At the right of the book the whole known alphabet is laid out as a cluster of white glyph discs, four already black, and hovering one raises a black tooltip, 'UP/GREAT', the player's own tentative gloss, two candidate meanings kept side by side with a slash rather than forced into one word. The journal never asks the player to be right; it asks them to write down what they think, in a form the game can later grade. Frame at about 0:19 in the Chants of Sennaar - Launch Trailer (Steam), manually extracted at 19.4s: the journal beat runs about 18-20s as a page-turn sequence (a blank spread with the palette at 18.6s, this settled objects page by 19.4s), and the scene-change pass caught the corridor before it (17.0s) and the corridor after it (19.9s), no frame of the page itself. No trailer burn-in or watermark is present in the frame.

Patterns

How the screen is arranged.

diegetic-document icon-rail

Components

Parts on screen.

Tabs Toolbar Journal Slots Tooltip

Screen inventory

• the open journal's left page: ink sketches of a large key and a rounded vase, each with an empty dotted circle beside it, a slot still waiting for its glyph
• the right page: a spiked oval mirror or sun sketch and a corked round flask, each also with an empty dotted circle beside it
• at right, the full glyph palette as a staggered cluster of white discs (about thirty glyphs), four of them already turned black at the cluster's lower right
• a black tooltip pill reading 'UP/GREAT' over one hovered glyph in the palette, the player's current guess shown as a two-word gloss with a slash
• two plain tabs at the top of the book, the left one gold with a small dome icon, the right one white with a dark obelisk-like icon
• the sunlit room behind the book kept dim and out of focus at the frame edges: shelves, jars and a doorway

Top 3 colors

#fbeacf 34%#000000 25%#7b312d 22%

Top three palette colors by share. The remaining colors make up the rest.

Source and credit

© Rundisc / Focus Entertainment, Chants of Sennaar screenshot: Chants of Sennaar - Launch Trailer and Chants of Sennaar - Release Date Reveal Teaser (Steam), shown for design study and commentary. PlayCraft is an unofficial fan project, not affiliated with or endorsed by Focus Entertainment.

Source tier 2 (publisher-released) · screenshot: Steam store page · Steam page

Source details

Fetched 2026-10-23. verified 2026-10-23: frame manually extracted at 19.4s from the pipeline-downloaded Chants of Sennaar - Launch Trailer (Steam) and inspected visually at full resolution (1920x1080); real game UI (journal objects page: key, vase, mirror and flask ink sketches, four empty dotted glyph slots, full glyph-disc palette at right with four black discs, 'UP/GREAT' tooltip pill, two book tabs) confirmed visible and legible; no publisher burn-in or watermark in frame

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