Tactics condition picker: cascading target menus
Dragon Age: Origins · Battle / Tactics
Art style Realistic 3D
About this game
Developer: BioWare · Publisher: Electronic Arts · Platform: PC (Steam) · Art style: Realistic 3D · Screen type: Battle / Tactics
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What to study
The same Tactics book one second later shows why its condition system can express real tactics: opening a slot fans out into three cascading menus, from who (Self, Ally, Enemy, or a named companion) through what state (health, buffs, armor type, range) down to whose attacker (Attacking Alistair, Attacking Morrigan, and so on). The depth is the design lesson and the warning at once: a player can encode genuinely specific behavior, but only by drilling through nested lists that cover half the book. Timed extraction made during audit (scene detection had surfaced only the closed-rows state); no caption burn-in on this frame. Frame at about 1:30 in the GamePlay video (Steam).
Patterns
How the screen is arranged.
Components
Parts on screen.
Screen inventory
- Tactics header with Alistair name bar
- Custom 1 preset dropdown
- cascading condition picker, first level: Self, Ally, Enemy, Hero, Sten, Morrigan, Leliana, Zorro, Controlled party member
- second level: Status, Health, Lowest/highest health, Clustered, Nearest visible, Nearest visible class, Attacking party member, Target of party member, Has any buff, Mana or stamina level, Has armor type, Rank, Target at range, Target using attack type
- third level: Attacking main character, Attacking controlled party member, Attacking Alistair, Attacking Sten, Attacking Morrigan, Attacking Leliana, Attacking Zorro
- Behavior Default dropdown
- Activate: Shield Cover action row
- Disable tactics button
- Save Preset button partially covered by the open menu
Top 3 colors
#070302 25%#d8c58a 20%#3f2919 15%
Top three palette colors by share. The remaining colors make up the rest.
Source and credit
© BioWare / Electronic Arts, Dragon Age: Origins screenshot: GamePlay (Steam), shown for design study and commentary. PlayCraft is an unofficial fan project, not affiliated with or endorsed by Electronic Arts.
Source tier 2 (publisher-released) · screenshot: Steam store page · Steam page
Source details
Fetched 2026-11-01. verified 2026-11-01: timed frame extracted from the official GamePlay video (Steam) at about 1:30 and inspected visually at full resolution; real Tactics condition picker with three cascading menu levels confirmed visible
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