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Two Fronts: menus as a warship's distressed-metal plates (Thunder Marines first), hill climb to 8/10, rounds 3+ (from #3546) #3565
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Score: 6.5/10 (target 8)
Moved up from #3546. Rounds so far: round 1 is #3542 (merged, 2.5 to 5.0), round 2 is #3564. The owner's brief and the five-point goalpost are in #3546 and still hold: target 8/10 from the owner, and judges score about two points above the owner. Never name the sources.
Where it stands after round 2 (fresh judge: before 5.5, now 6.5)
- Distressed metal: 1.5/2. The plates have chamfered riveted rims, bolts, a grime layer and thickness. Gaps: the grime hardly shows, and the inner cards are still flat dark cards: the war tiles on the title, the fleet cards in the line-up.
- Marines lead: 1.5/2. The brass primaries and the insignia, now with chevrons, lead. Gaps: the secondary buttons are plain grey pills ("Be the horde", "Hotseat"), and the Wooka controls have no wood.
- Artwork: 1.5/2. Six small SVGs in
src/ui/plate, about 5.6 KB in total. Gap: the texture is on the frames only, not on the content inside them. - Readable: 1/2. Contrast holds. Gaps: at tablet width the map is a small square (Two Fronts: the campaign map shrinks to a small square at tablet width (820 px) #3563, on main too). On a phone the lobby's button row is cramped, and "Keep playing" floats as unstyled text.
- eqosys: 1/2. Waiting on the skin hook (eqosys skin: a game injects its look once, and the chip, toast, report form, lobby and spaces wear it (climb round 1) #3540).
Next: round 3
- Stamped or inset sub-plates with stencilled labels for the inner cards: war tiles, fleet presets, vote cards. Make the scuffs and oil in
grime.svgshow. - Secondary buttons as gunmetal toggles, and the Wooka's controls in their own wood.
- The lobby on a phone: wrap the button row, and make "Keep playing" a plate link.
- Once eqosys skin: a game injects its look once, and the chip, toast, report form, lobby and spaces wear it (climb round 1) #3540 is on main, put the skin on the eqosys sign-in chip, report form and toast through its hook.
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Two Fronts: drop steel.svg, grime.svg and bolt.svg now that the baked…
QuinnsCode commentedon Nov 5, 2026
Score: 6.5/10 (target 8)
Round 3 is in #3579, and its checks pass. The plates are rendered images now.
apps/two-fronts/scripts/plates.tsbakes them in headless Chrome from a seeded procedural canvas and writespublic/plates:steel.webp, 7.3 KB: brushed gunmetal with oil, scuffs and scratches; it tiles.inset.webp, 4.6 KB: sunken steel for the cards.bolt.webp, 2.1 KB: a lit hex bolt.hero.webp, 24.4 KB: a bulkhead plate with a worn rim, bolts, vents, readout windows, and the insignia in its seat.That's 38.4 KB in all, and
steel.svg,grime.svgandbolt.svgare deleted. The hero plate leads the title and the lobby. Cards are bolted sub-plates, secondary buttons are gunmetal, "Be the horde" is wood, and the lobby's start row wraps on a phone.A fresh judge scored both sets: BEFORE (round 2) 5.5, NOW 6.5. That is a one-point rise from the same judge. It lands at the same 6.5 the round 2 judge gave, because judges vary.
All 13 NOW shots (desk, phone, and the panel at tablet) are in
apps/two-fronts/docs/shots-2026-11-05-round3/.Next:
Details are in #3583. The tablet map is still #3563.
QuinnsCode commentedon Nov 5, 2026
Moved up to #3583
Two Fronts: baked menu plates and a hero plate on the title and lobby…