Choose your squad: Vanilla Squad, records and starting relics

About this game

Developer: Excellent Rectangle · Publisher: Excellent Rectangle · Platform: PC (Steam) · Art style: Comic & cartoon · Screen type: Faction / Leader Select

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What to study

Tape to Tape's run starts on a character sheet disguised as a team photo. The squad pick is a grid of shield-framed portraits where locked skaters are pure silhouettes, the chosen captain gets the only full-body art, and the screen spends its remaining space on two kinds of memory: the squad's Records (fastest win, wins, top scorer) at top-right and its Starting Relics as an empty frosted grid at right, what this team has done, and what it will carry, flanking who it is. Frame at about 0:04 in the Official 1.0 release trailer video (Steam), a pipeline scene-change survivor (candidates/v0_0001.png at 4.3s).

Patterns

How the screen is arranged.

portrait-row detail-panel status-row

Components

Parts on screen.

Banner Grid List Portrait Progress bar Slots Button prompts

Screen inventory

• left: the squad portrait grid, nine unlocked cartoon faces in shield frames, the rest black silhouettes, so roster progress reads as filled vs empty shields before any name is read
• centre: the selected squad's captain leans out of the team van at full-body scale, with the squad name on a blue banner (Vanilla Squad) and a one-line plain-language verdict beneath it, 'A simple, balanced team built for any playstyle'
• top-right: a Records panel keeps the squad's history on the selection screen itself, Fastest Win 38:16, Wins 11, Most Goals R. Kirby (7)
• right: the Starting Relics panel is a frosted, still-empty grid, the run's build slots shown before the run starts; bottom corners carry the controller prompts (B Back, A Start Run)

Top 3 colors

#282c34 23%#306687 21%#c4e0d8 19%

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_0001.png, 4.3s) inspected visually at full resolution (1920x1080 native), settled squad-select screen, portrait grid, Records panel and relic grid sharp and legible

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