Campaign map: puck nodes across the snow league

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Art style Comic & cartoon

Tape to Tape - Campaign map: puck nodes across the snow league

About this game

Developer: Excellent Rectangle · Publisher: Excellent Rectangle · Platform: PC (Steam) · Art style: Comic & cartoon · Screen type: Campaign / World Map

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What to study

The campaign layer is a board game drawn as a winter diorama. Stops on the run are hockey pucks linked by blue paths, and every destination explains itself pictorially, training rotunda, butcher-cum-infirmary, arena, prison, so route choice is read from architecture, not icons or tooltips. It is the Slay the Spire node map with the abstraction removed: same branching graph, but the nodes are places you can recognise across the snow. Frame at about 0:15 in the Official 1.0 release trailer video (Steam), a pipeline scene-change survivor (candidates/v0_0004.png at 15.3s).

Patterns

How the screen is arranged.

map-nodes map-icons location-label

Components

Parts on screen.

Chart Speech bubble Map Minimap Signage Resource bar

Screen inventory

  • the route is a graph of black hockey-puck nodes joined by thick blue paths across the snow, the run's branching structure readable in one glance, no legend needed
  • each node is a drawn building with its function in its architecture and signage: a Training Center rotunda, a combined Butcher Shop / Infirmary with a cleaver on the roof, a walled arena, a prison with watchtowers
  • the current location talks: a speech bubble with a plush wolf pup hovers over the Training Center, the map's only text-bearing element besides signage
  • no chrome at all, no resource bar, no minimap, no turn counter; the map trusts the node graph and the buildings to carry every decision

Top 3 colors

#e2eee7 31%#566166 20%#e6efe7 16%

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

Source and credit

© Excellent Rectangle, Tape to Tape screenshot: Official 1.0 release trailer video (Steam), shown for design study and commentary. PlayCraft is an unofficial fan project, not affiliated with or endorsed by Excellent Rectangle.

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

Source details

Fetched 2026-10-23. verified 2026-10-23: pipeline scene-change frame (candidates/v0_0004.png, 15.3s) inspected visually at full resolution (1920x1080 native), settled campaign map, node paths and location art sharp and legible

no published policy found (checked 2026-10-23); fair-use study use, takedown honored within 48h

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