Crew manifest: name, role, origin, and a blank column for fate

About this game

Developer: Lucas Pope · Publisher: 3909 · Platform: PC (Steam) · Art style: Minimalist & vector · Screen type: Encyclopedia / Codex

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What to study

The manifest is the game's database, typeset as a ledger: each soul aboard gets one dotted row, number, name, role, origin, running in rank order from the mates, bosun and surgeon down through the carpenter, cook, butcher, gunner, purser and the ship's artist, until the passengers begin at the foot of the page. A fifth column, as wide as the name column, is ruled and left completely blank: that is where each person's fate belongs, and the whole game is the work of filling it in. The table is also a clue in itself, roles and origins are evidence (the gunner is Austrian, his mate Polish; the passengers include an artist, which explains the sketch bound into the same book), so the reference page the player consults most is designed to be read, not just searched. Two small triangular markers sit in the blank column beside the middle rows, the only visible cursor in an otherwise perfect imitation of print. Frame at about 1:35 in the Announcement video (Steam), manually extracted at 95.0s: the scene-change pass emitted no frame for this page at all. Caveat: the trailer scrolls down the manifest, so this frame shows rows 4-20 of 60; no single frame of the video holds the whole table.

Patterns

How the screen is arranged.

data-table diegetic-document cross-reference

Components

Parts on screen.

Data table Marker

Screen inventory

• numbered table rows 4-20 visible in this frame of the scroll
• four ruled columns: number, name, role, origin, plus a wide blank column at the right ruled with dotted lines
• officers and specialists in rank order: Martin Perrott, Third Mate, England; John Davies, Fourth Mate, England; Alfred Klestil, Bosun, Austria; Charles Miner, Bosun's Mate, France; Henry Evans, Surgeon, England
• trades and staff below them: Winston Smith, Carpenter, America; Thomas Sefton, Cook, England; Emil O'Farrell, Butcher, Ireland; Christian Wolff, Gunner, Austria; Duncan McKay, Purser, Scotland; Edward Spratt, Artist, England
• passengers begin at the foot: Abigail Hoscut Witterel, Passenger, Scotland; Nunzio Pasqua, Passenger, Italy
• small triangular selection markers visible in the blank right-hand column beside rows 15-16
• dotted row rules throughout, in the book's serif type

Top 3 colors

#e6ffff 25%#454d3a 20%#d5eeea 20%

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

Source and credit

© Lucas Pope / 3909, Return of the Obra Dinn screenshot: Announcement (Steam), shown for design study and commentary. PlayCraft is an unofficial fan project, not affiliated with or endorsed by 3909.

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

Source details

Fetched 2026-10-20. verified 2026-10-20: frame manually extracted at 95.0s from the pipeline-downloaded Announcement video (Steam) and inspected visually at full resolution; genuine crew manifest page confirmed (rows 4-20, all names, roles and origins legible, fate column blank); the page is a scrolling table in the trailer and rows outside 4-20 are out of frame, flagged in the study note; no trailer text overlays the frame

no published policy found (checked 2026-10-20); fair-use study use, takedown honored within 48h, note: no Lucas Pope / 3909 video policy was located during this prep and a dedicated policy search was not run in this phase; flagged in review-notes.md for the ingest gate

Rights holders: see Copyright & takedown.