Map: Portofiro's districts drawn as hatched line-work

About this game

Developer: ZA/UM · Publisher: ZA/UM · Platform: PC (Steam) · Art style: Painterly illustration · Screen type: Campaign / World Map

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What to study

A map drawn the way an asset handler would sketch it: no terrain, no colour satellite view, just hatched white line-work on black, districts named like files, Party Alley, Bootleg Bazaar, the War Criminals Shrine. What makes it a system rather than a picture is the legend: vending machines, phones and white checks are plotted as services across the districts, and a fourth layer, the fax machines, sits locked behind Technoflex [II], the map literally shows more of the city as the agent's mind develops, tying navigation to the same skill grid as the Dossier. Travel is present but fenced ('available while outside only'), a small rule stated on the face of the screen. Frame at about 1:12 in the ZERO PARADES - Launch Trailer (English) video (Steam), a pipeline scene-change survivor (candidates/v1_0017.png at 71.8s); the Features trailer's zoomed notebook variant of this map carries burned-in trailer typography and was passed over in its favour.

Patterns

How the screen is arranged.

map-overlay location-label side-panel

Components

Parts on screen.

Tabs Menu Journal Map Marker

Screen inventory

• the city as white hatched line-work on black: district shapes for PARTY ALLEY (current location, top-left), THE BACKWAYS, BOOTLEG BAZAAR, OLD DOCKS, QUISACH ROUNDABOUT, PITOL TRACT, WAR CRIMINALS SHRINE and HOUSING CAMPAIGN, each labelled in a small rounded tag
• service icons plotted directly on the districts, telephone glyphs, vending-machine cups, padlocks, matching the legend at right: VENDING MACHINES / PHONES / WHITE CHECKS, plus a locked fourth entry, FAX MACHINE : TECHNOFLEX [II], gated behind a skill
• right rail: a TRAVEL button with the restriction spelled out under it, 'AVAILABLE WHILE OUTSIDE ONLY', fast travel is a rule the map states, not a convenience it hides
• no terrain, no satellite colour: the map reads as an intelligence sketch, continuous with the dossier and journal screens; the shared menu tab bar rides the top with MAP active

Top 3 colors

#040404 22%#141414 21%#0d0d0d 18%

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/v1_0017.png, 71.8s) inspected visually at full resolution (1920x1080 native), settled map screen, all district labels, icons and the legend legible, no trailer typography overlays the frame

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