Keyword dialogue: Spyke Alpha's backyard toll, five keyword buttons

Wasteland 2: Director's Cut · Dialogue / Conversation

Art style Realistic 3D

Wasteland 2: Director's Cut - Keyword dialogue: Spyke Alpha's backyard toll, five keyword buttons

About this game

Developer: inXile Entertainment · Publisher: inXile Entertainment · Platform: PC (Steam) · Art style: Realistic 3D · Screen type: Dialogue / Conversation

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What to study

Dialogue here is not a menu of sentences, it is a menu of words: the line is spoken, and the reply is a single keyword, Play, Backyard, Pay, Break, Dog, each one a different way of answering a shakedown. Two keywords are coloured (Break green, Dog red) against the neutral rest, so the interface signals that some replies carry a different weight before the player commits, and the Smart Ass / Hard Ass / Kiss Ass readout underneath says which social skills are in play at 0. The portraits on both sides keep it a conversation, not a terminal. Frame at about 48.5 s in the Wasteland 2 trailer (Steam).

Patterns

How the screen is arranged.

detail-panel choices portrait-panel

Components

Parts on screen.

Dialogue box Portrait Choices Clock

Screen inventory

  • Dialogue panel: Spyke Alpha, 'If you wanna play in our backyard you gotta pay. Fifteen scrap, or we'll break your faces, and my dog will eat your corpses.'
  • Keyword buttons: Play, Backyard, Pay, Break (green), Dog (red); Goodbye button
  • Portraits: Slade Slander left, Spyke Alpha right; party portraits far left; Smart Ass 0, Hard Ass 0, Kiss Ass 0 readout; clock 01 100 top right

Top 3 colors

#73593f 20%#866c4e 19%#2f2316 19%

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

Source and credit

© inXile Entertainment, Wasteland 2: Director's Cut screenshot: Wasteland 2 trailer (Steam), shown for design study and commentary. PlayCraft is an unofficial fan project, not affiliated with or endorsed by inXile Entertainment.

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

Source details

Fetched 2026-11-01. verified 2026-11-01: scene frame from the official Steam trailer, inspected visually at full resolution; Spyke Alpha's full line, all five keyword buttons with Break green and Dog red, both portraits, the three Ass-skill readouts, and Goodbye confirmed legible

no published inXile policy found (checked 2026-11-01; Microsoft's Game Content Usage Rules, xbox.com, cover Microsoft Studios-published titles and do not clearly cover this 2015 inXile-published title); fair-use study use, takedown honored within 48h

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