Tokyo: dashed empty plot and an oversized black pin

About this game

Developer: Dinosaur Polo Club · Publisher: Dinosaur Polo Club · Platform: PC (Steam) · Art style: Minimalist & vector · Screen type: HUD & Gameplay UI

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What to study

Two quiet information devices the full-map frames cannot show at this size: growth is telegraphed by an empty plot drawn only in dashes next to the yellow destination, you plan roads for a building that does not exist yet, and urgency is telegraphed by scale, one destination's pin blown up solid black with a halo while every other demand pin stays small and white-outlined. Neither needs a pop-up, a timer or a word. Frame at about 0:32 in the Release Trailer (Steam), a manual extraction inspected at full resolution (1920x1080) in this prep; the trailer's map segments use the shipped game's exact visual system under a moving camera and carry no HUD chrome, disclosed in the elements.

Patterns

How the screen is arranged.

map-icons minimal-hud route-planning

Components

Parts on screen.

Map Marker

Screen inventory

• top centre, beside the yellow destination with three pins, an empty dashed-outline square plot with hatched apron and one small pin below it, a future destination site announced in outline before the building exists, the game's growth made visible
• bottom centre, one destination carries an oversized solid black map pin, many times the size of the small white-outlined demand pins, a singled-out, selected or newly arrived destination stated by scale alone (its pale blue ring halo spreads across the streets around it)
• a small roundabout left of centre (grey ring, black-ring core) feeding curved streets; pink motorway '1' sweeps across the bottom of frame on its arc
• the Sumida river in turquoise crosses the right side on two road bridges (paired black ticks); pink parkland blobs soften the top corners, geography is three flat colours
• square and round destinations coexist (yellow square, magenta circle centre right with two pins, purple square lower left with two pins): shape varies, the pin-count demand code never does

Top 3 colors

#f3ede7 21%#eccbd7 18%#dce5df 17%

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: manual extraction at 32.0s (accurate seek, probes/verify/t32.png) inspected visually at full resolution (1920x1080) in this prep; keeper file tokyo-plot-and-pin.png is a byte copy of that extraction

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