Night view cone: solid purple sight, striped where the dark breaks it

About this game

Developer: Mimimi Games · Publisher: Daedalic Entertainment · Platform: PC (Steam) · Art style: Stylized 3D · Screen type: Battle / Tactics

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What to study

This is the view cone's complete grammar in one frame. Solid purple is certain sight; the striped bands inside the same fan are where cover, bushes and shadow break the line, the cone keeps its true length and changes texture instead, so the player learns 'watched' and 'watched-but-shadowed' as two fills of one shape. The design also survives the night palette: everything else in the frame sinks to dark green and brown, and the fan stays violently violet, the first thing read in any night scene. Above it, the prone figure on the aqueduct states the intended answer without a word of tutorial, the way past a cone is over it. Frame at about 2:28 in the Gameplay Trailer 2 (Steam; scene-change candidate v0_0010).

Patterns

How the screen is arranged.

heatmap-overlay alternate-vision

Components

Parts on screen.

Log

Screen inventory

• the view cone is a broad purple fan filling the left half of the frame, thrown by the robed guard standing at its apex beside the log pile, at night the cone turns violet and becomes the brightest object in the scene
• the fan reads in two textures: solid violet where the ground is open, tight dark stripes where it crosses the bushes and the fence shadow at frame left, blocked sight is drawn as striping inside the same shape, never as a shorter cone
• three guards in green-yellow vests stand with their backs to the camera inside the fan's edge, lit in the game's highlight colours while the robed figure they face stays in purple shadow
• above them, one of the player's characters lies flat along the wooden aqueduct that cuts diagonally across the frame, the route over the guards' heads is drawn in the same picture as the cone it avoids
• there is no HUD at all: at night the game trusts the cone's colour contrast alone to carry the tactical read

Top 3 colors

#121921 27%#203538 24%#202734 18%

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

Source and credit

© Mimimi Games / Daedalic Entertainment, Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun screenshot: Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun - Gameplay Trailer 2 (Steam), Daedalic Entertainment, shown for design study and commentary. PlayCraft is an unofficial fan project, not affiliated with or endorsed by Daedalic Entertainment.

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

Source details

Fetched 2026-10-25. verified 2026-10-25: scene-change candidate candidates/v0_0010.png @ 147.88s in the Gameplay Trailer 2, MD5 a490ffeed7eacb0230c474fbdb20b0c0, from the Steam download (135,823,883 B, MD5 1b82936c6b4ab372b6335f505c62de05, 1920x1080, 184.8s); a full scene-change decode of the file reproduced the pipeline's candidate frames byte-identically, inspected visually at full resolution (1920x1080 native); the purple view cone with solid and striped sections, the robed guard at its apex, the three green-yellow guards and the prone figure on the aqueduct all legible; no trailer text or marketing overlay in frame

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