Git Recon: menus as a toy-soldier briefing, hill climb to 8/10, rounds 4+ (from #3560) #3569

Score: 5.3/10 (target 8)

Carried from #3560 (round 3; rounds 2 and 3 are PR #3559, round 1 was #3544 and PR #3552): Git Recon's menus as a toy-soldier briefing. A toy-soldier third-person shooter fought in a codebase, with glossy black clay soldiers. The menus are the toy box and the field manual: moulded-plastic sprues and runners as frames, a glossy clay sheen on buttons, stencilled field-manual headings, mission cards like punched dog tags. Our own ideas only, never the look of any commercial toy line or game.

Goalpost: 8/10 from the owner on the menus

1. In the game's own look. Title, lobby or front, settings, results and any panel read as the same world as the play view: material, type, ornament.
2. Artwork, not only CSS. Backplates, frames, textures and insignia as small SVG, procedural canvas or headless-Blender tiles; say what each weighs.
3. Still readable, every screen size. Contrast at or above today, play view unobscured, checked with bun run probe git-recon --shot from phone to desktop.
4. eqosys menus wear it. The sign-in chip, report form, achievement toast and any lobby come through the skin hook from eqosys menus: a game injects its skin once and every shared surface wears it, hill climb to 8/10, rounds 2+ (from #3530) #3541, never a second stylesheet.
5. House kit underneath. Components come from packages/ui and packages/game-controls re-themed by tokens; a forked copy of one is a gap.

Where it stands after round 3

• Round 1 (Git Recon: the menus as a toy box and field manual (menus climb round 1) #3552, merged):
  • An olive map table, and a manila field-manual page in an SVG sprue frame.
  • Stencil-cut headings and glossy black clay buttons.
  • Dog-tag mission cards and a rubber-stamped result.
  • The Controls panel shares the page and frame through the packages/ui tokens plus its own classes.
• Round 2 (Git Recon: a moulded sprue, a tally sheet, your own clay soldier on the menu (menus climb rounds 2 and 3) #3559):
  • The sprue has gate ribs and numbered corner parts.
  • Wide screens get a folded field map on the table.
  • Results carry a tally sheet with tally marks.
  • Phone polish.
• Round 3 (Git Recon: a moulded sprue, a tally sheet, your own clay soldier on the menu (menus climb rounds 2 and 3) #3559):
  • Your own clay soldier, built by the game's figure.ts in your build and head, turns on a moulded base in the page's corner at every size (src/ui/portrait.ts). It renders only while the menu shows.
  • Dog-tag names are embossed capitals.
  • The loadout rows are recessed olive part bins with stamped label tabs.
• Art: 5.9 KB of SVG in apps/git-recon/public/menu/, plus the live render.
• Shots are in apps/git-recon/docs/shots-2026-11-04-menus/: before-*, r1-*, r2-*, now-* (after round 3).
• Judges (fresh each round, corrected two points down; compare within one judge):
  • round 2 to round 3: 4.8 to 5.3;
  • round 1 to round 2: 4.4 to 5.2;
  • main to round 1: 1.5 to 5.0.

Next

1. Results and settings got nothing new in round 3.
   • Results: stencilled stat labels, buttons that read as tags or moulded parts, an insignia.
   • Settings: field-manual type on the rows, moulded reset buttons instead of greyed ones.
2. The parts tray is flat.
   • Give it moulded rims and sockets.
   • The locked head icons are grey on olive and nearly vanish: lift their contrast.
   • One head sits alone on the last row on desktop and tablet: tidy the grid.
3. On desktop the soldier crowds the FIELD MANUAL plate, and its top is cut off when the loadout is scrolled.
4. eqosys menus. When the skin hook (eqosys menus: a game injects its skin once and every shared surface wears it, hill climb to 8/10, rounds 2+ (from #3530) #3541, PR 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 this skin through it for the sign-in chip, report form and toast. Not before.