QuickCHECK: 'Violation Detected' over the Gumshoe Gooper case page

About this game

Developer: Tendershoot, Michael Lasch, ThatWhichIs Media · Publisher: No More Robots · Platform: PC (Steam) · Art style: Pixel art · Screen type: HUD & Gameplay UI

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What to study

The whole Enforcer loop lands in one frame: pick a law from the pictogram rail, and QuickCHECK answers with a verdict dialog whose only action is GET PAID. What makes the design worth studying is how the consequences are drawn, the citizen's status meter ('1 VIOLATION POINT / NOT TOO BAD') sits directly behind the reward, so the player sees the harm and the payment in the same glance, and the game's queasy gig-economy point is made by layout rather than dialogue. Even the balance readout cooperates: H0 in the header, one button away from changing. Frame at about 0:33 in the 2020 Trailer (Steam; manual extraction, the dialog holds for under a second inside the trailer's zoom sequence, so the scene-change pass caught only its zoomed states).

Patterns

How the screen is arranged.

modal-dialog icon-rail

Components

Parts on screen.

Window Banner Progress bar Gauge

Screen inventory

• the HSPD CITIZEN QuickCHECK dialog owns the centre: banner title, the verdict 'VIOLATION DETECTED', a gavel icon, the line 'Well done Enforcer!' and one purple button, 'GET PAID', with the cursor already on it, a moderation report resolves into praise and payment in a single window
• behind it, the case page stays visible: 'Gumshoe Gooper Short Story' by AbbyWrites58, and the page owner's status header 'ABAGAIL LORNE'S STATUS, UPDATED TODAY'
• the status header carries the consequence as a segmented red meter: '1 VIOLATION POINT' filled against the verdict 'NOT TOO BAD', with a FLAG button to its right, one report moves a citizen's public record by exactly one visible notch
• the left rail is SELECT LAW itself: five numbered pictogram tiles (a theft, an assault with hearts, weapons, a masked figure, a prohibited cash register) over a CANCEL button, the laws are pictures first, chosen before the dialog can appear
• the Explorer header persists through the judgment: 1999.11.05, 9:10P, and a hypnocash balance of H0, the Enforcer is broke at the moment the GET PAID button appears

Top 3 colors

#161415 25%#77afdd 23%#9cc8f2 22%

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

Source and credit

© Tendershoot, Michael Lasch, ThatWhichIs Media / No More Robots, Hypnospace Outlaw screenshot: Hypnospace Outlaw: 2020 Trailer + New Launch Trailer (Steam), No More Robots, shown for design study and commentary. PlayCraft is an unofficial fan project, not affiliated with or endorsed by No More Robots.

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

Source details

Fetched 2026-10-25. verified 2026-10-25: manual extraction manual-quickcheck-dialog-33.png @ ~33.0s in the 2020 Trailer (fps=4 burst frame b017 from a 29s offset), MD5 8555f22e229b058467ff8402ff21d3bd, from the verified-clean download (31,671,251 B, MD5 c5203ff58e117460ad8fa704860dfea3; full decode to null exit 0, zero error lines), inspected visually at full resolution (1920x1080 native); the QuickCHECK banner, 'VIOLATION DETECTED', 'Well done Enforcer!', the GET PAID button, the '1 VIOLATION POINT / NOT TOO BAD' meter, all five SELECT LAW tiles with CANCEL, and the AbbyWrites58 byline all legible; no trailer text or marketing overlay in frame

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