Ship deck plans labelled by who sleeps where

About this game

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

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What to study

The ship itself gets a reference diagram that doubles as a social map: the logbook stacks the decks as labelled bands, MAIN DECK, GUN DECK, ORLOP DECK, and draws each hull in plan view on a dotted graph grid, cabins, stairs and hatches in thin ruled lines. Crucially, the rooms are not labelled by function but by person: Captain's Quarters and Passenger Cabins on the Main Deck; Second Mate, Fourth Mate, Bosun and Bosunmate along one side of the Gun Deck, First Mate, Third Mate, Stewards and Midshipmen along the other, each name tied to its cabin with a leader line. In a game about deciding who was where when they died, the floor plan is a deduction tool, where a body is found is evidence about who it is, and the book presents it with the same flat documentary tone as the manifest opposite it. Frame at about 1:33 in the Announcement video (Steam), manually extracted at 92.5s: the scene-change pass caught this page only in a zoomed pan position (candidates/v0_0016.png). Caveat: the trailer pans down the stacked diagrams, so the Main Deck plan itself sits mostly above this frame, its label row shows, and the Gun Deck plan below it is complete.

Patterns

How the screen is arranged.

legend-panel diegetic-document map-overlay

Components

Parts on screen.

Grid Chart

Screen inventory

• three stacked deck bands labelled MAIN DECK, GUN DECK and ORLOP DECK (the Orlop band shows only its header at the bottom edge)
• the Gun Deck hull plan complete in plan view: cabins, companionway stairs and hatch gratings on a dotted grid
• Main Deck cabin labels with leader lines: Captain's Quarters, Passenger Cabins
• Gun Deck labels along the top of the plan: Second Mate, Fourth Mate, Bosun, Bosunmate
• Gun Deck labels along the bottom: First Mate, Third Mate, Stewards, Midshipmen
• a dotted graph-paper grid under the whole diagram, with the book's page edge at the left and right

Top 3 colors

#b3c8c2 25%#424837 20%#e6fffe 17%

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 92.5s from the pipeline-downloaded Announcement video (Steam) and inspected visually at full resolution; genuine logbook deck-diagram page confirmed (Gun Deck plan complete, every cabin label in frame legible); Main Deck plan mostly above the frame and Orlop Deck only a header at the bottom edge, both 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

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