Tech tree: Energy shield Lv3 card, matrix costs, Activate

About this game

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

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What to study

Research in Dyson Sphere Program is manufacturing by another name, and the tech card says so in its layout. The Energy shield Lv3 card prices the upgrade three ways at once: the coloured matrix cubes it consumes (200 blue, 200 red, 200 yellow, science you built in a factory, not points you earned), the data volume it needs (144k Hashes) and the single Activate button that commits both. What you get is stated with the same plainness: shield radius +0.5m, capacity +200 MJ, no flavour adjectives. The card never floats free of the tree, either, the green Lv2 node behind it and the grey Lv4 node ahead of it stay on screen, joined by the orange line, so one technology reads as a road with a past and a future instead of a shop item. Frame at 0:38.5 in the Rise of the Darkfog Trailer (Steam). The source frame carries the trailer's cropped '- WIP - Does not represent the final -' caption at bottom-right, disclosed here and in the elements list.

Patterns

How the screen is arranged.

perk-tree detail-card cost-list

Components

Parts on screen.

Card List Data table Tree / web

Screen inventory

• the centre card is one technology, fully priced: 'Energy shield' at Lv3, its Unlocks stated as numbers, 'Mecha energy shield radius +0.5m' and 'Mecha energy shield capacity +200 MJ'
• 'Research consumption' shows the three matrix cubes the research eats, blue, red and yellow, 200 of each, the game's science-as-manufactured-goods economy drawn as icons with counts, not an abstract science point
• 'Data Volume: 144k Hashes' beside a single blue 'Activate' button; the footer explains in one sentence: 'Increases the radius and energy capacity of energy shield.'
• the card hangs on a visible chain: the completed green node 'Energy shield Lv2' (icon II) feeds it by an orange line from the left, and the grey, unlit 'Energy shield Lv4' node (icon IV) waits to the right, past, present and future of one stat on one line
• a second row of three completed green nodes runs across the top of the frame, and at the right edge a cropped upgrade summary lists the mecha's other tracks in plain words, 'Mecha fuel', 'Mecha driv…', 'Construction', 'Auto-recon…', 'Mecha shie…', 'Max mecha…', the tree's table of contents, cut off by the trailer's camera

Top 3 colors

#020203 25%#0f1013 20%#1a1c1e 17%

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: pipeline scene frame v3_0009.png @ 38.50s in the Rise of the Darkfog Trailer, from the verified-clean curl-shim download (85,352,255 B, MD5 3ff3241507c464938c46cb8cecdf1b52; full decode to null exit 0, zero NAL/missing-picture errors), inspected visually at full resolution; the Energy shield Lv3 card with '+0.5m' / '+200 MJ' unlocks, the 200/200/200 matrix-cube costs, '144k Hashes', the Activate button, the Lv2 (green) and Lv4 (grey) chain nodes all legible; the right-edge upgrade list and the bottom-right WIP caption are cropped in the source frame itself

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