Technology tree mid-pan: green, blue and grey state colours

About this game

Developer: Mohawk Games · Publisher: Hooded Horse · Platform: PC (Steam) · Art style: Stylized 3D · Screen type: Tech / Research

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What to study

A tech tree that can be read at pan speed, which is exactly how this trailer uses it: Old World colour-codes state so aggressively, green done, blue available, grey locked, with the completed route lit as a green wire, that the viewer understands the empire's progress during a two-second camera move. Each node also carries its payload as thumbnails (POLIS shows its fire, wood and settler icons; MILITARY DRILL its crowd and wrestling pictograms), so the tree doubles as a catalogue of what each discovery unlocks and no node is just a name. The pan crop is disclosed in the elements: edge cards are cut, and a settled full-tree frame would need a different source. Frame at about 1:14 in the Announcement Trailer (Steam), a scene-change survivor (v0_0027 at 73.57s) inspected at full resolution in this prep.

Patterns

How the screen is arranged.

panel-grid detail-card

Components

Parts on screen.

Card Banner Tree / web Tooltip

Screen inventory

• nodes as horizontal cards, painted icon tile, name banner, and a row of small unlock thumbnails underneath (units, buildings, laws) so a tech advertises what it buys without a tooltip
• colour is the state machine: green with a tick for completed (IRONWORKING, LABOR FORCE, STONECUTTING, POLIS, TRAPPING, MILITARY DRILL), blue with an amber ! for available (HUSBANDRY, FORESTRY), red-brown for the military line (DRAMA, DIVINATION, PHALANX, STEEL) and dark grey with a padlock for locked (ARISTOCRACY, SPOKED WHEEL, SOVEREIGNTY)
• bright green connector lines trace the completed path through the tree (IRONWORKING into LABOR FORCE, STONECUTTING into POLIS into FORESTRY's column, TRAPPING into MILITARY DRILL into STEEL) while unmet prerequisites stay thin grey lines

Top 3 colors

#3d4145 24%#171f27 20%#252a2d 19%

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

Source and credit

© Mohawk Games / Hooded Horse, Old World screenshot: Old World - Announcement Trailer video (Steam), shown for design study and commentary. PlayCraft is an unofficial fan project, not affiliated with or endorsed by Hooded Horse.

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

Source details

Fetched 2026-10-21. verified 2026-10-21: scene-change survivor v0_0027.png (73.57s) inspected visually at full resolution (1920x1080) in this prep; keeper file tech-tree.png is a byte copy of that survivor

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