Journal: Tasks dealt as case-file cards, Procure In-Theatre

About this game

Developer: ZA/UM · Publisher: ZA/UM · Platform: PC (Steam) · Art style: Painterly illustration · Screen type: Encyclopedia / Codex

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What to study

The quest log reimagined as a case file a spy would actually keep. Tasks are not a checklist column but a spread of illustrated cards, paintings, not icons, and selecting one deals it to the centre at full size while the right panel types out the brief and its subtasks as leads: people, places, rumours ('Goat Eyes can get you a gun for a down payment. He's around at night.'). Nothing is a map marker; every subtask is a sentence of intelligence that might be wrong, which is exactly the fantasy the game is selling. Finished tasks retire to a strip at the bottom rather than vanishing, so the journal keeps the shape of the whole operation, and an ADD TAG field invites the player to file their own notes into the system. Frame at about 0:48 in the ZERO PARADES - Features and Gameplay Trailer video (Steam), a pipeline scene-change survivor (candidates/v0_0013.png at 48.1s).

Patterns

How the screen is arranged.

card-grid master-detail quest-tracker

Components

Parts on screen.

Card Tabs Photograph Grid List Journal Map

Screen inventory

• left: TASKS as a grid of illustrated trading cards, six active assignments visible as painted thumbnails, one lifted and tilted under the cursor, with a FINISHED TASKS strip below holding a single completed card
• centre: the selected task blown up to a full case card, 'Procure In-Theatre', a standoff of hands and pistols around one small standing figure, captioned like a file photograph
• right: the task dossier in type, the brief ('You need a weapon to pull off the assignment. Unfortunately, the Opera cannot just give you one in this city.'), then SUBTASKS as a branching lead list: PURCHASE A GUN with three named leads (Goat Eyes, a man near the Quisach roundabout, the Boatman's tuk-tuk lot) and ASSEMBLE YOUR OWN FIREARM (Foto 24's workbench), each lead a rumour, not a waypoint
• an ADD TAG field closes the panel, the journal is something the player annotates, not just reads; the shared DOSSIER / INVENTORY / CONDITIONING / MAP / JOURNAL tab bar rides the top

Top 3 colors

#383231 20%#0e0e0e 20%#23201f 19%

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

Source and credit

© ZA/UM, ZERO PARADES: Director's Cut screenshot: ZERO PARADES - Features and Gameplay Trailer / Launch Trailer (English) videos (Steam), shown for design study and commentary. PlayCraft is an unofficial fan project, not affiliated with or endorsed by ZA/UM.

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

Source details

Fetched 2026-10-21. verified 2026-10-21: pipeline scene-change frame (candidates/v0_0013.png, 48.1s) inspected visually at full resolution (1920x1080 native), settled journal screen, card grid, enlarged case card and subtask text all sharp and legible; no trailer typography or transition overlays the frame

no published policy found (checked 2026-10-21); fair-use study use, takedown honored within 48h

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