Drawing a road: green preview, length and azimuth readout, build bar and minimap

About this game

Developer: 3Division · Publisher: Hooded Horse · Platform: PC (Steam) · Art style: Realistic 3D · Screen type: HUD & Gameplay UI

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What to study

Workers & Resources teaches its core verb in a single frame: drawing infrastructure is priced and measured as you draw it. The green preview is not decoration, it carries the cost (2,481₽), the length (171 m) and the bearing (88°) of the segment before a single workday is spent, while the top bar keeps the republic's health (population, employment, health, happiness) in view so a road is never just a road, it is a claim on a planned economy. Around the gesture, the interface states its structure: a two-row build bar organised by purpose (transport, cargo, networks, citizens, industry) and a permanent minimap, because in this game building is never a modal detour from the map, it happens on it. Frame at about 0:30 in the Gameplay Trailer (Steam; scene-change survivor v0_0013).

Patterns

How the screen is arranged.

top-bar hud-overlay route-planning action-bar bottom-dock map-overlay status-row

Components

Parts on screen.

Toolbar Minimap Resource bar Gauge

Screen inventory

• the top bar is the republic at a glance: UNLIMITED funds in both currencies, the date 3. January 1960, the SOVIET REPUBLIC masthead, pause and speed controls at 6m/s, population 16,504, and three citizen gauges, 97% (employment), 85% (health, red cross) and 73% (happiness, smiley), so the whole simulation's headline numbers are always on screen
• the interaction itself is one green gesture: a new road segment drawn as a thick green preview curving off an existing dirt road, with a pinned readout giving its price (2,481₽), total length (171 m) and azimuth (88°), plus a dashed angle guide at the join, the player is placing geometry, and the game prices and measures the gesture before it is committed
• the bottom build bar is the game's taxonomy made visible: two rows of icon buttons under category tabs, General Transportation, Cargo & Storage, Networks, For Citizens, Industry, with the upper row currently on Roads, Depots, Maintenance, For citizens, For cargo and Refuelling, so switching from a road to a depot is a tab click, not a menu dive
• a live minimap sits bottom right, gridded with terrain, water and the road network, with a resource-icon rail along its edge, the map is a permanent instrument, not a screen you open

Top 3 colors

#686f43 25%#626a3d 22%#61653d 18%

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

Source and credit

© 3Division / Hooded Horse, Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic screenshot: Steam trailer (Gameplay Trailer), 3Division, shown for design study and commentary. PlayCraft is an unofficial fan project, not affiliated with or endorsed by Hooded Horse.

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

Source details

Fetched 2026-10-28. verified 2026-10-28: scene-change survivor candidates/v0_0013.png @ 29.69s in the Gameplay Trailer, MD5 7c87d41c8cd7f327fd644e7ff41d0e22, from the verified-clean download (104,703,168 B, MD5 3368ff7fad6d766d36974750910c8949; full decode to null with -xerror exit 0, zero error lines, manual/decode-Gameplay-Trailer.err), inspected visually at full resolution (1920x1080 native); the 2,481₽ / 171 m / 88° readout, the full top bar, the Roads build row and the minimap all legible; no trailer text or marketing overlay in frame

not verified this run (Steam store page fetch 2026-10-28 shows the game in the Hooded Horse publisher bundle; no publisher policy page checked); Phase 2 to confirm policy before ingest, fair-use study use, takedown honored within 48h

Rights holders: see Copyright & takedown.