Pufferfish cutting minigame: knife line and zoned timing bar

About this game

Developer: MINTROCKET · Publisher: MINTROCKET · Platform: PC (Steam) · Art style: Pixel art · Screen type: HUD & Gameplay UI

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What to study

The restaurant's second prep minigame, and a different mechanic from the kept cocktail pour: where pouring judges a fill level against rim markers, cutting judges a single timed press against zones. The knife line sits over the fish, the pointer travels the red, orange, green, orange, red bar, and the Space key cap tells the player when to strike, with the pointer caught here in the green. The whole fish stays in frame, so the cut reads as butchery, not as an abstract meter: the board, the bowl, the barrel and the cloth keep the minigame inside the kitchen. Held as the first substitute alternate in the Phase-1 review, admitted on second pass for distinct slicing-timing content. Frame at 59.1s in the DAVE THE DIVER - DIVE IN NOW Trailer (Steam; second-pass extraction sp-cutting-5910.png), inspected at full resolution (1920x1080); no trailer text or marketing overlay in frame. combined aHash plus dHash distance to the nearest existing DAVE THE DIVER keeper 211 of 512, no near-duplicate.

Patterns

How the screen is arranged.

segmented-bars contextual-prompts

Components

Parts on screen.

Gauge Button prompts

Screen inventory

• a whole spotted green pufferfish lying on a wide wooden cutting board, head at right with one white eye visible, dark tail at left
• a thin vertical white knife line crossing the fish at mid-body, with the black knife handle and a round white Space key-cap bubble below it
• a long horizontal timing bar at the bottom, zoned red, orange, green, orange, red, with the pointer resting in the green zone
• the kitchen around the board: a striped bowl at upper left, a wooden barrel at upper right, a folded white cloth at right

Top 3 colors

#9f844f 22%#6c5138 22%#ac915b 19%

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

Source and credit

© MINTROCKET, DAVE THE DIVER screenshot: DAVE THE DIVER - DIVE IN NOW Trailer (Steam), shown for design study and commentary. PlayCraft is an unofficial fan project, not affiliated with or endorsed by MINTROCKET.

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

Source details

Fetched 2026-10-29. verified 2026-10-29: second-pass extraction sp-cutting-5910.png @ 59.1s in the DAVE THE DIVER - DIVE IN NOW Trailer, MD5 f6139ce212404423f719932b84dd75fc, from the verified-clean re-download (69,422,872 B, 95.616 s, full decode to null exit 0, byte-identical size to the 2026-10-23 verified copy), inspected visually at full resolution (1920x1080 native) in the 2026-10-29 idle pickup second pass; whole fish, knife line, zoned bar and Space prompt all legible; combined aHash plus dHash distance to the nearest existing DAVE THE DIVER keeper 211 of 512, no near-duplicate

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