Select Law: the L02 Harassment definition open over the 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

Content moderation is the game's verb, and this frame shows its grammar: laws are chosen from pictograms, but the pictogram expands into a written definition before anything is reported, so the player judges text against text. L02's wording does quiet worldbuilding, 'active in or outside of Hypnospace' extends the fiction's jurisdiction past the screen, and its placement as a banner over a 1st-grade story page makes the mismatch between the law's gravity and the content's innocence the joke and the critique at once. Paired with the QuickCHECK verdict frame, it documents both halves of the reporting interaction. Frame at about 0:33 in the New Launch Trailer (Steam; the trailer camera is zoomed into the Explorer window, so the band's final word runs to the frame edge).

Patterns

How the screen is arranged.

icon-rail top-bar

Components

Parts on screen.

Toolbar Tooltip

Screen inventory

• a purple definition band spans the page: 'L02: Harassment, Defamation, bullying, or excessively negative rhetoric targeting individuals active in or outside of Hypnospace.', selecting a law tile opens its full legal text as an overlay, in plain language a player can actually apply
• the SELECT LAW rail beneath it is four visible pictogram tiles, a mugging, a man shouting hearts at a cowering figure (the harassment tile, matching L02), weapons, a masked skeleton figure, each law is a small cartoon of the act it forbids
• above, the Explorer header is complete: HYPNOSPACE EXPLORER, 1999.11.05, 9:15P, H66, and the breadcrumb '>> GOODTIME VALLEY >> GUMSHOEGOOPERKIDS', this is a children's story page being judged
• the toolbar's gavel icon is the highlighted one: the browser has two modes, surfing and enforcing, and the chrome shows which is active
• the citizen's status post peeks from behind the band, a crying-face icon and the words '…think of her.', the human content under judgment stays half-visible while the law is read

Top 3 colors

#917fb6 25%#1e1c25 23%#90b7ee 19%

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: scene-change survivor candidates/v1_0017.png @ 32.58s in the New Launch Trailer, MD5 5791b000c9c04bbca49a45ff3a832be9, from the verified-clean retry download (43,051,185 B, MD5 70cfab9b59d8d37f0bda8b2a8f112a14; full decode clean), inspected visually at full resolution (1920x1080 native); the HYPNOSPACE EXPLORER header with 1999.11.05 9:15P / H66, the GOODTIME VALLEY breadcrumb, the SELECT LAW tiles and the L02 definition ('Defamation, bullying, or excessively negative rhetoric targeting…') all legible; disclosed: this is the trailer's camera zoom into the window, so the definition band's last word is clipped at the frame's right edge, every operative clause is readable; no trailer text or marketing overlay in frame

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