Ten worlds

A case does not just change setting — it changes the light. Each world is twelve colours, a light and a texture, and every one of those twelve is drawn from the same fixed palette the pixel art is quantized to. The chrome and the plates can never belong to different games.

• GaslightLow light · 4 casesGas lamps, brass and old money. The lights are always low and always warm, and the shadows they throw are the point — this is the world of the drawing-room murder, where the household has known each other for thirty years and every one of them can account for the evening.
• Rain and shadowLow light · no case yetRain and shadow. Hard light through a window blind, wet asphalt, and a colour scheme of two things: amber and everything else.
• Cold stoneLow light · no case yetCold stone and colder weather. Vaulted ceilings, guttering candles, and light that arrives grudgingly through leaded glass.
• Warm daylightDaylight · 1 caseWarm daylight, and the only light world in the set. Cream walls, cut flowers, tea things and a bright afternoon coming through the window.
• Ink and oakLow light · no case yetInk and oak. Panelled rooms, reading lamps, tobacco and old paper — the warm brown-and-green world of libraries, chambers and long institutional memory.
• Pale glassLow light · no case yetPale glass and grey daylight. Enamel, brass fittings and cold flat light with no direction to it — the world of decks, corridors, uniforms and rules about where you may stand.
• Sun-bleachedLow light · no case yetSun-bleached. Hard low light, dust in the air, and colour that has been left out too long — ochre, faded denim, dry timber and rust.
• Present dayLow light · 1 casePresent day, and lit like it. Flat even daylight, painted plaster, laminate and glass — a world of group chats, security cameras and people who take photographs of everything.
• Cold steelLow light · no case yetCold steel. Fluorescent strips, painted metal and a blue that gets into everything, including the shadows.
• StarlightLow light · no case yetConsole glow and hull plating. A world lit entirely from inside, in cyan and hot pink against a black that is genuinely black.