Handbook journal: region photo pages with scores 2838 and 2705

About this game

Developer: Free Lives, Clockwork Acorn · Publisher: Devolver Digital · Platform: PC (Steam) · Art style: Painterly illustration · Screen type: Encyclopedia / Codex

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What to study

The same handbook that documents the buildings also keeps your postcards. Each region gets a journal page of empty photo frames; finished landscapes are pasted in as prints with rosettes and a score, and the loose polaroid sliding across the gutter in this frame shows the collection being assembled by hand, in the fiction. As interface design it turns completion tracking into scrapbooking, progress you can see as a half-filled album rather than a percentage, and it gives the photo mode (which feeds these pages) a destination inside the game's central object. Frame at about 0:53 in the Heatwave trailer (Steam; scene-change survivor v2_0010, the spread is the handbook opened from the savanna gameplay that precedes it).

Patterns

How the screen is arranged.

collection-grid photo-slots tabbed-panel

Components

Parts on screen.

Tabs Photograph Chart Journal Slots

Screen inventory

• the handbook's journal spread, pages numbered 137 and 138 on graph paper: four region sections, CONTINENTAL OUTSKIRTS and CANYON PEAKS across the top, PARCHED DUNES and FRACKED FLOODPLAIN below, each drawn with empty outlined rectangles where photographs will go
• under Parched Dunes the collection has begun: two photo slots are filled with landscape prints, each pinned with a blue rosette and a dark score chip (2838 and 2705), and one more print, a river canyon polaroid, lies loose and tilted across the gutter, caught mid-placement
• the book's furniture stays consistent with the rest of the handbook: coloured chapter tabs down the left edge (climate, trees, buildings, animals, camera), a handbook tab and red X close tab on the right, and hand-drawn botanical plates (a fern, a snake among plants) filling space the data doesn't need
• the world stays present at the frame edges, desert, cacti and dry grass around the open book, so the journal reads as something kept on site, not a separate collection screen

Top 3 colors

#dbe4e5 22%#6f5a40 22%#e3f0ef 18%

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

Source and credit

© Free Lives, Clockwork Acorn / Devolver Digital, Terra Nil screenshot: Steam trailers (Vita Nova / A Beginner's Guide to Ecosystem Restoration / Heatwave), Devolver Digital, shown for design study and commentary. PlayCraft is an unofficial fan project, not affiliated with or endorsed by Devolver Digital.

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

Source details

Fetched 2026-10-27. verified 2026-10-27: scene-change survivor candidates/v2_0010.png @ 53.1s in the Heatwave trailer, MD5 4de0e61105fe47982147591ae0d5a57b, from the verified-clean curl-shim download (58422676 B, MD5 f406437efdd393ed6970384ee5b38430; full decode to null with -xerror exit 0, zero error lines, decode-steam-1593030-Heatwave.err), inspected visually at full resolution (1920x1080 native); all four region headings, both score chips (2838 / 2705), page numbers 137 / 138 and the tab columns legible; the loose polaroid is part of the game's own journal animation, disclosed in the study note; no trailer text or watermark in frame

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