The voyage chart: a dashed route south from England

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 world map is a page in the claim file, drawn the way an 1803 chart would be: land is solid black, the sea is stipple and grid, and the only information layered on top is the ship's intended course, a dashed line dropping south from a diamond marker off the English coast, past Madeira, toward the Canary Islands, with further diamonds marking the waypoints where the voyage can be checked against what the inspector finds aboard. Continent and island names (EUROPE, AFRICA, AZORES, MADEIRA) are set in the same stippled serif as the book's text pages, so the chart reads as one more document in the file rather than a separate map screen, and there is no legend, scale bar or UI chrome anywhere on it. Frame at about 1:31 in the Announcement video (Steam), manually extracted at 90.5s: the scene-change pass caught this page only in a tighter northern pan position (candidates/v0_0015.png). Caveat: the trailer camera pans slowly south across the chart, so this is a pan position, not a settled wide shot, every label in frame is sharp, but CANARY and AFRICA are clipped at the bottom edge and Scotland sits off the top.

Patterns

How the screen is arranged.

diegetic-document

Components

Parts on screen.

Grid Marker

Screen inventory

• EUROPE and AFRICA continent labels in stippled serif capitals, landmasses solid dark against a stippled sea
• Britain and Ireland at the top of the frame, Iberia and the Mediterranean coast at the right
• AZORES and MADEIRA island labels, with the CANARY label clipped at the bottom edge
• a dashed route line running south from a diamond marker off southern England, past Madeira toward the Canary Islands
• three diamond waypoint markers on or beside the route
• latitude/longitude grid and rhumb lines drawn across the sea
• the book's page edges visible as narrow stippled strips at the left and right

Top 3 colors

#2c2d1a 30%#e5fffe 18%#e0fbf8 16%

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 90.5s from the pipeline-downloaded Announcement video (Steam) and inspected visually at full resolution; genuine logbook chart page confirmed (route line, waypoint diamonds and island labels legible); trailer pan means the page's top and bottom extremes 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.