Manila: one motorway across the Pasig, a working roundabout

About this game

Developer: Dinosaur Polo Club · Publisher: Dinosaur Polo Club · Platform: PC (Steam) · Art style: Minimalist & vector · Screen type: Campaign / World Map

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What to study

The motorway lesson in one frame: against Manila's orthogonal white streets, the single pink diagonal, badged '1', junction-free, river-crossing, is instantly legible as a different class of road, and the roundabout below it shows the opposite tool, a junction drawn as a plain ring that cars visibly circulate. Demand stays in the same two glyphs as the rest of the game (coloured buildings, pin stacks of two and four), so a new city with a new palette and a river for ground needs no re-teaching. Frame at about 0:23 in the Release Trailer (Steam), a pipeline scene-change extraction inspected at full resolution (1920x1080) in this prep; like all of the trailer's map segments it uses the shipped game's visual system under a moving camera and carries no HUD chrome, disclosed in the elements.

Patterns

How the screen is arranged.

route-planning minimal-hud

Components

Parts on screen.

Marker Badge

Screen inventory

• one pink motorway on a long diagonal from bottom centre-left to top right, badge '1' in a shield at its middle, it crosses the river and every street without a junction, the visual definition of the motorway tool
• the river (labelled ILOG PASIG across its surface) runs horizontally in two turquoise bands; streets hug and cross it, the motorway does not
• a large roundabout right of centre, a white ring around a grey-blue disc with a hollow black-ring centre, with yellow and blue cars circulating and queuing on its approaches
• destinations: two red squares with two pins each (top left, centre) and a yellow square with four pins (right edge); houses as small red, yellow and blue blocks on cul-de-sacs at the top right and bottom left
• the ground itself is the water colour: this city's blocks are islands of road drawn over solid turquoise, so unbuilt space reads as river, not empty land

Top 3 colors

#4a99af 28%#67b7c7 24%#c0ccbf 20%

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

Source and credit

© Dinosaur Polo Club, Mini Motorways screenshot: Release Trailer video (Steam), shown for design study and commentary. PlayCraft is an unofficial fan project, not affiliated with or endorsed by Dinosaur Polo Club.

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

Source details

Fetched 2026-10-22. verified 2026-10-22: pipeline scene-change frame v0_0002 at 22.988s inspected visually at full resolution (1920x1080) in this prep; keeper file manila-motorway-roundabout.png is a byte copy of candidates/v0_0002.png

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