Paint zoning tool: Woodcutting and Residential zones

Foundation · City & Base Management

Art style Stylized 3D

Foundation - Paint zoning tool: Woodcutting and Residential zones

About this game

Developer: Polymorph Games · Publisher: Polymorph Games · Platform: PC (Steam) · Art style: Stylized 3D · Screen type: City & Base Management

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What to study

Foundation's signature mechanic is painting, not placing on a grid: zones are freehand blobs brushed onto the terrain, blue for woodcutting and green for residential here, with the brush preview drawn as a dashed circle. The PAINT panel names only four zone types, and a Controls Help card teaches the brush gestures (paint, erase, resize) in the same frame, so the gridless idea is legible without a tutorial. Frame at about 0:30 in the Release Date and Demo Trailer (Steam).

Patterns

How the screen is arranged.

hud-overlay panel-grid status-row top-bar

Components

Parts on screen.

Toolbar Resource bar

Screen inventory

  • blue Woodcutting zone painted over forest
  • green Residential zone painted over meadow with dashed brush preview
  • PAINT panel: Woodcutting, Residential, Resource Removal, Forbidden
  • Controls Help card: Left click to paint, Right click to erase, Hold Ctrl and Mouse wheel to resize brush
  • time controls Month 1 Week 3 Day 4
  • top Coins/Resources/Villagers/Progression bar

Top 3 colors

#747f3e 19%#272e18 19%#414a26 19%

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

Source and credit

© Polymorph Games, Foundation screenshot: Release Date and Demo Trailer (Steam), shown for design study and commentary. PlayCraft is an unofficial fan project, not affiliated with or endorsed by Polymorph Games.

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

Source details

Fetched 2026-10-31. verified 2026-10-31: timed full-resolution extraction from the official Release Date and Demo Trailer (Steam), inspected visually; painted zones, PAINT panel and Controls Help card confirmed visible

no published policy found in this pass; fair-use study use, takedown honored within 48h (Phase-2 to re-check before deploy, as with prior ships)

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Foundation - Early settlement HUD: resource bar and Build dock Foundation - Castle build menu: Castle Keep with ghost placement Foundation - Building detail card: Manor House Tax Office Foundation - Progression paths: Common Path, Labour, Kingdom, Clergy unlocks Foundation - Mission List book: Strategic Patrol and company deployment

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