Implosion Cannon panel: Supernova tooltip, power and ROF

About this game

Developer: Youthcat Studio · Publisher: Gamirror Games · Platform: PC (Steam) · Art style: Stylized 3D · Screen type: Battle / Tactics

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What to study

The Implosion Cannon panel is a building inspection that reads like a combat instrument. In one frosted sheet it stacks the turret's ammunition state ('Empty', under a shell icon counted 6), its power context (2.26MW drawn from a grid sitting at 44%), its assignment (Group 1–5 buttons), its targeting scope (Active Single / Group / Global as a three-row selector) and its live performance (ROF 0.27/s now, Burst Power 7.20MW in Supernova). The Supernova tooltip is the design tell: instead of a one-line hint it prints the whole rule, charge-up, a 2-second burst, automatic shutdown when the grid drops below 30 percent, because in a factory game a weapon is a power-budget decision, and the panel prices it like one. All of this floats translucent over the very swarm it is firing at, Dark Fog stars pressing in at the frame's edges, so the numbers never leave the fight they describe. Frame at 1:01.5 in the Rise of the Darkfog Trailer (Steam; manual extraction, the panel opens inside a held combat shot, so the scene-change pass never fired on it).

Patterns

How the screen is arranged.

detail-panel stat-rows

Components

Parts on screen.

Card Menu Grid List Portrait Gauge Tooltip

Screen inventory

• the panel header names the building, 'Implosion Cannon', with a close X at top-right; under it, a circular ammunition portrait shows a shell icon over a grey fill with a '6' count, and the word 'Empty' beneath: the turret is selected, inspected and out of shells in one glance
• the status column at right reports the grid before the gun: 'Alarm Off', a lightning icon with '2.26MW 44%' for the power network's charge, the teal state word 'Engaging', and a 'Group' row of five numbered buttons (1–5) for firing-group assignment
• a three-way mode selector stacks 'Active Single', 'Active Group' and the highlighted 'Active Global', the turret's targeting scope is a visible, switchable list, not a settings-menu secret
• centre, a large orange circular Supernova button/dial; to its right the live numbers it changes: 'Current ROF 0.27 /s', 'Current Power 2.26MW', 'Burst Power 7.20MW'
• a tooltip card titled 'Supernova' covers the panel's lower third and explains the burst mechanic in full sentences: the tower accumulates power, burst mode lasts 2 seconds, and 'The supernova shuts down automatically when the grid is less than 30 percent powered', with the instruction to click the button again to turn it off
• behind the tooltip, a 'Details' section is partly hidden; its visible row fragments end in the values 42 and 11.5k, the panel is dense enough that its own tooltip cannot fit without covering it
• the panel is frosted translucent: the battle it controls stays visible through and around it, a ring of factory structures and the Dark Fog's star-shaped units swarming at the edges

Top 3 colors

#020204 24%#1e283d 21%#090a14 19%

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

Source and credit

© Youthcat Studio / Gamirror Games, Dyson Sphere Program screenshot: 2022.6.22 EN + Rise of the Darkfog Trailer (Steam), Youthcat Studio / Gamirror Games, shown for design study and commentary. PlayCraft is an unofficial fan project, not affiliated with or endorsed by Gamirror Games.

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

Source details

Fetched 2026-10-24. verified 2026-10-24: frame is a manual extraction (manual-darkfog-panel-61_5.png @ 61.5s, MD5 9148146368a827724b0212b76c92bb04) from the verified-clean curl-shim download of the Rise of the Darkfog Trailer (Steam) (85,352,255 B, MD5 3ff3241507c464938c46cb8cecdf1b52; full decode to null exit 0, zero NAL/missing-picture errors), inspected visually at full resolution; the Implosion Cannon header, 'Empty' ammunition state, Alarm Off, 2.26MW 44%, Engaging, Group 1–5, Active Single/Group/Global, Current ROF 0.27 /s, Current Power 2.26MW, Burst Power 7.20MW and the full Supernova tooltip text all legible; fine probes at 55–65s (fine/v3panel_*.png) confirm the panel is open and settled at 61.5s (neighbouring frames at 59–60s carry a 'SWITCH SHOOTING' trailer banner and were rejected for it); the Details rows behind the tooltip are partly covered in the source frame

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