Chicken detail card: affection heart and four locked slots over the farmyard

About this game

Developer: Nippon Ichi Software, Inc. · Publisher: NIS America, Inc. · Platform: PC (Steam) · Art style: Painterly illustration · Screen type: Character / Unit Detail

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What to study

Inspecting an animal opens a card that behaves like a villager's: the Chicken's panel gives a hen silhouette, an affection heart, and four slots still padlocked, the game's bond system applied to livestock, with the unlocks left visibly empty, over a second row of small interaction icons. The panel is drawn on the same translucent, faded paper as the game's request forms, and it never takes the whole screen: the farmyard, the clock (SUN, AM 09:45) and the hotbar all stay live around it. Frame at about 0:11 in the English Launch trailer (Steam).

Patterns

How the screen is arranged.

detail-panel side-panel status-row

Components

Parts on screen.

Log Slots Action bar

Screen inventory

• a translucent paper-toned detail panel at right headed 'Chicken', with a white hen silhouette in a grey tile
• a first slot row under the name: an affection heart followed by four padlocked slots, the animal's locked bond or produce slots
• a second, smaller icon row: a hand, a leaf, a purple swirl and a red cross
• the farmyard behind the panel: the farmer face to face with the white chicken itself beside its coop, among grass tufts, logs and rocks, with an '✕ Chicken' target label over the pair
• the full HUD frame persists around the panel: hearts and shortcut cluster top left, 2,296 yen, SP 28 and 'SUN, AM 09:45' top right, the two-row hotbar along the bottom

Top 3 colors

#5f634e 19%#472f19 18%#534937 17%

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

Source and credit

© Nippon Ichi Software, Inc. / NIS America, Inc., Village in the Shade screenshot: English Launch trailer (Steam), shown for design study and commentary. PlayCraft is an unofficial fan project, not affiliated with or endorsed by NIS America, Inc..

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

Source details

Fetched 2026-10-27. verified 2026-10-27: manual frame extracted from the pipeline-fetched English Launch trailer and inspected visually at full resolution (1920x1080); Chicken header, hen silhouette tile, affection heart, four locked slots, second icon row and all HUD readouts confirmed legible; the panel's faded paper finish is the game's own style, not a capture defect; no trailer title or overlay text in the frame

no published policy found (checked 2026-10-27); fair-use study use, takedown honored within 48h

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