Seahorse race: '1st / 259.8 mm/s' badge

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

A horse race rebuilt at seahorse scale, and the HUD is where the joke becomes a system. The clock reads 4.02s and the leader's speed is given, deadpan, as 259.8 mm/s: the interface reports a creature moving a quarter of a metre per second with the full ceremony of motorsport telemetry. Under the racers, one long segmented bar does the race's real work, filling yellow into green as the player's seahorse builds speed, with three numbered markers (52, 65, 42) parked above it for the rivals' positions, and a round rosette badge at its left end keeps the placing, '1st', always in view. The three verbs of the minigame sit on key caps beneath the bar, Cheer, Jump and Slide, so the controls are taught by the HUD itself with no tutorial text. Even the crowd is interface: the starburst 'Run!' bubble at left is a spectator shout rendered as a UI element, and the little wooden board at bottom right tracks all five entrants as red dots over one green dot, the player's. Nothing here is decorative: every element is a number, a position or a prompt, arranged so a race between animals the size of a thumb reads at a glance. Frame at about 0:20 in the DAVE_THE_DIVER_-_DIVE_IN_NOW_Trailer (Steam), pipeline scene-change candidate candidates/v0_0012.png at 19.7s, used unchanged. No publisher burn-in or watermark appears in this frame.

Patterns

How the screen is arranged.

standings-columns contextual-prompts

Components

Parts on screen.

Speech bubble Marker Progress bar Clock Button prompts Badge

Screen inventory

• four pixel seahorses racing right across pale sand inside a bamboo fence: a red one leading at lower right, two dark ones and one olive one behind, each with a soft grey drop shadow and dust puffs at its tail
• top centre, the race clock in big white type: '4.02s'; at left, a cream starburst speech bubble reading 'Run!' from the crowd
• bottom centre, a round ornate badge reading '1st' with '259.8 mm/s' beneath it, beside a long segmented bar running yellow to green to grey, with three small numbered markers above it: 52, 65 (green) and 42
• under the bar, three key prompts on a dark strip: a space-bar icon with 'Cheer', 'W' with 'Jump', 'S' with 'Slide'
• bottom right, a dark wooden standings board with five thin rows, four red dots above one green dot; bottom left, the crowd of Sea People spectators and Dave in his diving suit watching from the trackside

Top 3 colors

#c9fddd 21%#e5fedf 19%#637c6a 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 2026-10-23. verified 2026-10-23: pipeline candidate frame inspected visually at full resolution (1920x1080); real game UI (seahorse race HUD: '4.02s' clock, 'Run!' callout, '1st / 259.8 mm/s' badge, segmented yellow-green bar with 52/65/42 markers, Cheer/Jump/Slide key prompts, dotted standings board) confirmed visible and legible; no publisher burn-in present in this frame

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