Art stylesGeometricLimited palette
Minimal geometry
Use circles, squares, lines, and a few colors. Every shape needs a job. Decoration that does not help a decision comes out.
Traits
- One shape keeps one meaning
- The background stays open, and motion is the main performance
- Depth comes from size and overlap, not gradients
- Sound and animation supply the feedback the shape cannot
Play that fits
It suits puzzles, reflex practice, and path games. A rule should be learnable without explanatory text.
Reference games
Make a coherent game art set
Suggested asset specification
- Character: one or two basic forms
- Scene: clear large geometry
- UI: shared shapes, spacing and type hierarchy
Motion and feedback
Express character through position, timing and slight deformation while preserving predictable boundaries.
Main production effort
With fewer shapes, spacing, proportion and motion errors become more visible and need iteration.
Start with this small scene
One geometric character, three route segments and a clear exit on shared alignment rules.
Simplify for a smaller budget
Fix the camera and three shapes, assigning color only to useful states.
What to check
Does the route survive without decoration, and do shape differences convey useful information?
Take the art specification
Includes localized visual rules, asset suggestions, scope and sources. This is a specification; assets still need production for your project.
Art specification v1 · Original editorial and examples · Reference-game assets not included
Prompt examples
Minimal geometric scene, cream background, one black square character, one coral circle as the goal, lots of empty space, no texture, no text
Minimal maze, thin-line walls, the player as a solid circle, the exit as one gap, only two colors
Common pitfall
Minimalism removes decoration without removing information needed for a decision.
Observations and sources
Cases refer to public documentation. Developers and community wikis are credited separately; document review is not a claim of hands-on testing.
- Monument Valley
Observe architectural masses, color regions and spatial reading, not an isometric camera alone.
- Thomas Was Alone
Observe rectangular characters distinguished through proportion and motion rather than facial detail.
Brief for the studio
Opens the AI studio with the brief below in the input. You can edit it. Nothing starts automatically.
Make a minimal geometry puzzle: the player is a solid circle, walls are thin lines, and reaching one gap clears the level. Use two colors and no written tutorial. Three levels teach rolling, stopping, and hiding behind a shape.
Related entries
Limited dither
When there are too few colors for a gradient, a fixed dot pattern mixes two of them into a middle tone. The texture comes from the limit, and shadow has a pattern.
Flat vector
Shapes are simple, edges are smooth, and fake depth is almost absent. Size, color, and position carry the information, so a rule can be read as a diagram.
Pixel
Aligned color blocks and a small palette explain the character, the ground, and the danger. Clarity comes from silhouettes and a few keyframes, not from tiny brushwork.
Covers are original AI-generated style illustrations. Game names reference publicly visible design choices and remain the property of their owners. This atlas does not supply screenshots or assets from those games. Prompts and combinations are original drafts for new games.